In 2023 I was at some conferences where I held a session about Azure Cost Management and I´ve discussed this topic also a couple of times with my best buddy Eric Berg.
He invited me to his podcast Geeksprech where we talked and discuss what FinOps is and why in some cases it`s the same as cloud governance and cost management without the melodious and modern name 🙂
Continue reading Guest on Geeksprech Podcast about FinOps and/or Azure Cost Management (Governance)With the announcement of the next Windows Server release, called Windows Server 2025, Microsoft decided to organize the next Windows Server Engineering Summit. The Windows Server Summit 2024 will take place March 26-28, 2024, 8 AM – 4 PM Pacific Time with many sessions around Windows Server solutions.
I´m happy to be invited to hold two sessions, which I think are really important and value from Management and Migration purposes.
Continue reading Speaking at Windows Server Engineering Summit 2024The full event month of September is slowly coming to an end and what better way to end it than with a great Azure conference? I´m really happy to announce that I will speak at the Experts Live Netherlands. The Experts Live Netherlands is one of the biggest Experts Live conferences next to Experts Live Europe and celebrates its 10th anniversary this year.
Continue reading Speaking at Experts Live Netherlands 2022I am pleased to have received an invitation to speak at the upcoming Scottish Summit 2021. The Scottish Summit was estabhlished in 2020. This year the conference is becoming an online-only conference and will be streamed on all social media channels. The conference itself is growing into a really big conference with many parallel tracks with different language. The main conference starts on Saturday 27/02/21 and there will be many sessions on Microsoft Cloud services (like Azure, M365 and so on).
Azure Governance is an important topic for any customer using cloud resources. In my session, I will show the power of Azure Policy and Azure Security Center to define guardrails for your Azure environment and bring it into a compliant and secure state. I will go live with my session at Saturday 27/02/21 starting 1PM. If you are interested in how Azure Policy and Azure Security Center work together and how these services are handled, please feel free to join my session and ask questions.
There are quite a few Microsoft Cloud sessions planned for the Conference. Go to the website, plan your agenda and grab your ticket. There’s also an App available for iOS and Android. I hope to see you there.
In the past Thomas Naunheim (Thomas Blog) and I have worked on several Cloud projects focusing on Azure Governance and Enterprise Scale. We decided to create a session together to integrate the best of both worlds and our experiences and recommendations from the field.
Our agenda:
We are very happy to announce that our session was accepted by the Azure Saturday Hamburg Team on 20/02/2021. The Azure Saturday Hamburg is a full, free Azure conference day with lot of great sessions. The event will have two different tracks and the first speakers and sessions have been announced. Take a look at the agenda and sign up for this great conference across different sessions from the Azure Cosmos.
Continue reading Speaking at Azure Saturday Hamburg 2021 together with Thomas NaunheimLast year Gregor Suttie and Richard Hooper launched the Azure Advent Calendar and I got to support with a session on Azure Bastion. This year they improved on the idea with the Festive Tech Calendar. I’m happy to be back with an article on Azure VM best practices. I hope you find the article helpful and I would appreciate feedback.
Over the past few months, I have conducted many customer workshops, designed and implemented Landing Zones, and migrated or placed VMs into Azure. One of the most common customer questions has been about best practices for Azure VMs to maximize performance and efficiency, minimize costs, increase security, and reduce management overhead. This article is based on my real-world experience and recommendations based on several Azure projects.
Continue reading Azure VM Best PracticesIn the past Thomas Naunheim and I do a lot of architecture and designing prinicple for integrating Azure in company environments. We have the idea to create a Azure Governance Best Practices session in the last couple of months to give the community our insights and best practices for Starting/Integrating Azure environments. The goal is to give you insights, where you can find the best documentations to start with a Cloud journey and which technical Azure features help to bring and hold your environment in an compliant and secure state.
The session contains the following topics:
We are exited to hold the session at the GermanyClouds Meetup on november 26. Did you interested in this topics or you are in the beginning or implementig phase, join us. We will happy to see you there and get your questions.
The session will not been recorded.
Our 1st IdentitySummit is over and we had a amazing Summit with our powerfull Speakers and our attendees.
We (Azure Bonn Orga Team) started planning the Summit in March 2020. The Orga Team from the AzureBonn Meetup consists of Melanie Eibl, Thomas Naunheim and René de la Motte. The idea came from Thomas (our Identity Expert) and we can say that was a wonderful idea.
We meet together at the Debeka Innovation Center (DICE) in Koblenz to organize and streaming all the sessions from one central place. The current Corona situation has unfortunately not made a complete live event possible, so we have met under the rules in force to ensure a smooth process and bring a little live feeling.
Now after 6 session in 2 parallel Tracks we can say it was worth every minute of planning – Why?
The answer is simple: First of all because of our great speakers. Each session was planned with a minimum of 300, and each session went deep into the relevant topics, showing what needs to be considered, the pitfalls and best practices available.
Continue reading IdentitySummit 2020 is over – Thank youIm ersten Teil habe ich vorgestellt, warum ein Azure Governance Konzept sinnvoll ist, wie sich Management Groups als organisatorisches Mittel in Azure dafür nutzen lassen und warum diese für Azure Blueprints als Vorraussetzung notwendig sind. Im 2. Teil werde ich nun zeigen, was Azure Blueprints sind, wie sich diese einrichten lassen und was beim erzeugen einer neuen Subscription passiert, wenn ein Azure Blueprint darauf angewandt wird.
Continue reading Azure Management Groups und Blueprints – Ueberblick und Einrichtung – Teil 2Der Weg in die Cloud ist eigentlich simpel, ein Konto im Azure Portal angelegt, die Kreditkartendaten hinterlegt und schon können alle verfügbaren Azure Ressourcen ausgerollt werden. Dies mag für Testumgebungen durchaus ein möglicher (wenn auch nicht empfohlener) weg sein. Für Produktiv Workloads, unabhängig ob Cloud only oder Hybrid-Szenario, sind Regeln erforderlich und sinnvoll. Um die Umgebung zu Strukturieren, um Kostenexplosionen zu vermeiden und um die Umgebung abzusichern.
Solche Richtlinien und Regeln lassen sich mit einem Governance Konzept erstellen und festlegen. So können bereits simple Fragen, wie ein zentrales Namensschema für Azure Services, das Design der Netzwerke oder die maximal erlaubten VM-Größen, geklärt werden. Ein Governance Konzept ist für den gesamten Tenant gedacht und damit Subscriptions übergreifend gültig. Die Subscriptions wiederrum eignen sich um unterschiedliche Kostenstellen zu erfassen oder Projektgrenzen zu definieren.
Bisher war es nicht einfach möglich, zentrale Einstellungen für neue Subscriptions vorzugeben. Dies hat sich mit der Einführung von Azure Blueprints geändert. Mit Azure Blueprints lassen sich zentrale Einstellungen vorgeben, die beim Rollout einer neuen Subscription auf diese angewandt werden. Um Azure Blueprints einsetzen zu können sind Management Groups notwendig. Management Groups geben die Möglichkeit den Azure Tenant aus Organisatorischer Sicht zu strukturieren.
Dieser zweiteilige Beitrag wird zunächst die notwendigen Management Groups als Voraussetzungen von Azure Blueprints erläutern und anschließend die Möglichkeiten von Azure Blueprints und deren Rollout vorstellen.
Continue reading Azure Management Groups und Blueprints – Überblick und Einrichtung – Teil 1
