Azure Compute

Microsoft Azure offers a variety of compute services in the cloud. This includes Virtual Machines, Azure App Service, Azure Functions, and more!

52 articles

Jun 10, 2016 • 1 min read

Azure Marketplace: FreeBSD 10.3

Over the last couple years Microsoft has been working to make FreeBSD a first class VM guest on Hyper-V. One of the primary reasons to…

Jan 13, 2016 • 1 min read

Azure Disk Encryption in Public Preview

The new Azure Disk Encryption feature was introduced into Public Preview last November. It allows for Virtual Machines (VMs) hosted within Azure to be encrypted…

Mar 14, 2018 • 3 min read

Azure CLI: Convert VM to Managed Disks

Traditionally, Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) would use an Azure Storage Account to store the VM Disk Images for the VM. This required explicit management of…

Jul 1, 2016 • 1 min read

Azure Marketplace: Barracuda

Among the many different 3rd party appliance and other solutions within the Azure Marketplace are a few from Barracuda. These images provide a simple, easy…

Sep 16, 2020 • 2 min read

Migrate to Azure DevTest Labs

Earlier this year I wrote a few new articles for the Azure Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF). One of the docs I was excited about is…

Jun 17, 2016 • 1 min read

Azure Marketplace: F5 WAF Solution

There are many solutions available within the Azure Marketplace. One of these is the F5 WAF (web application firewall) solution. The F5 WAF solution is…

Apr 1, 2017 • 1 min read

Create Ubuntu Linux VM in the Azure Portal

This is a short video that shows how to create an Ubuntu Linux Virtual Machine (VM) in the Microsoft Azure Management Portal. It also explains…

May 4, 2016 • 1 min read

Azure Marketplace: Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS

There are many different Virtual Machine (VM) images available in the Azure Marketplace. Just login to the Azure Portal, search the Azure Marketplace for the VM image…