Use Azure DevOps to enable Blue-Green Deployment to Azure App Service. Azure DevOps provides Repos for source code control, Pipelines for CI/CD, Artifacts to host build artifacts, and Boards for developer collaboration and coorindation. Azure App Service provides deployment slots to support staged deployments and application swapping to/from production. Used together, they provide an effective approach for rolling out frequent updates with no application downtime.

I recently deployed a Function App to an Azure App Service Environment (ASE) with an Internal Load Balancer (ILB) and ran into the “Azure Functions Runtime is unreachlable” error in the Azure portal.

I made two updates to the February 2017 edition of the report:

When running Linux as a Guest OS inside an Azure VM, you may occasionally run into a situation where you’re not able to successfully SSH into the VM making it inaccessible. Since there is no console access to an Azure VM, you have two options:

I made two updates for the January 2016 edition of the report:

This is just a minor update to the report. A number of users have started receiving the following error:

Here’s an approach for testing disk performance on Azure Linux VMs. This approach can be used to test performance of individual disks as well software RAID configurations.

When running Linux as a Guest OS inside an Azure VM, you may occasionally run into a situation where you’re not able to successfully SSH into the VM making it inaccessible. Since there is no console access to an Azure VM, you have two options:

This post, and the Azure Usage Analytics Report described within, is an update to the post originally published here in March 2015.

Microsoft Azure is evolving very quickly and one of the most common questions that I get is “How do I stay on top of all these updates?” Here are a few resources that can help:

Azure RemoteApp Hybrid Collections are great when you need to publish a custom set of applications that run in a domain-joined environment and have access to on-premises resources over a Site-to-Site VPN. But testing out a Hybrid Collection can be challenging because you need to:

Please note that this blog post and the associated report have been updated. Please go here for the latest version. Thanks!