These days, cloud solution providers everywhere are marketing “serverless” solutions. While serverless computing is not at all new, it is getting a lot more attention due to the increasing popularity of DevOps and cloud in general. The promise is that serverless will eventually replace how developers currently create software and how this software is managed in production by operations. This article provides an introductory look at serverless. What exactly is it? And what additional advantages does it offer to the DevOps process?
AWS, Azure, Cloud
Setting up a SharePoint 2016 dev farm in Azure – Part 4: SharePoint 2016 Installation
Part 4 of my series on setting up a SharePoint 2016 development farm in Azure. In this article, we will perform the actual SharePoint 2016 installation. This will be a virtual machine (spVM) in the virtual network we created in Part 2 of this series. We will make spVM a member of the Windows Server AD domain, and then create a new SharePoint farm.
Setting up a SharePoint 2016 dev farm in Azure – Part 3: SQL Server
Part 3 of my series on setting up a SharePoint 2016 development farm on Azure. In this article, we will create a SQL Server 2014 virtual machine (sqlVM) in the virtual network we created in Part 2 of this series. We will make sqlVM a member of the Windows Server AD domain, and prepare it for SharePoint.
Setting up a SharePoint 2016 dev farm in Azure – Part 2: Domain Controller
Part 2 of my series on setting up a SharePoint 2016 development or test farm on Azure using Azure PowerShell. This article focuses on the domain controller virtual machine deployment and configuration. It includes lots of details that are re-used in the subsequent parts.
Setting up a SharePoint 2016 dev farm in Azure – Part 1: Introduction
In this multi-part “tutorial”, we build a single-server SharePoint Server 2016 farm inside a subnet of a Microsoft Azure virtual network. The purpose of this server will be for development and testing and as a basis for demonstrating what’s possible in SharePoint 2016. This is the introduction article.
Why and how to connect to Microsoft Azure with Azure PowerShell
You might already be using PowerShell to automate other things in your environment. But if you haven’t started automating your cloud workload with Azure PowerShell, it’s time you take your cloud game to the next level. In this article, I’ll be showing you how to get started managing Azure resources with PowerShell. We’ll install the Azure PowerShell module and connect to your Azure subscription.