BlogRoll
Here's a collection of blogs, videos, tutorials, and tools for designing and using Microsoft Azure solutions.
It's a handy resource to help with your Azure projects, making it easier to design, plan, and implement services that help organizations worldwide succeed.
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Table Of Contents
🆕 New Links To Check
- https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/graph-explorer
- https://detective.kusto.io/
- https://gettenantpartitionweb.azurewebsites.net/
- https://dataexplorer.azure.com/
- https://oai.azure.com/portal
- https://gpsearch.azurewebsites.net/
🧠 AI
- https://aka.ms/hci-demo
- https://app.suno.ai/
- https://designer.microsoft.com/
- https://www.bing.com/images/create
- chatgpt_system_prompt
- Funko Pop Prompt
🏢 Architecture
- Microsoft Cloud Workshop library
- White papers
- Azure subscription and service limits, quotas, and constraints
- Azure Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) 🔥
- Azure Well-Architected Framework
- Azure Survival Guide
- Azure Subscription Design
- Azure Offers
- Subscription decision guide
- Azure Built In roles
- Azure Reference Architectures 🔥
- Cloud adoption antipatterns
- Azure Customer Advisory Team (CAT)
- Azure supported workloads
- awesome-azure-architecture
- Microsoft Assessments
- docsupdatetracker
- Landing Zone mission-critical
- Azure Quick Review 🔥
- Azure Sandbox
- Azure Dev Center
- CAF Additionnal resources
- Cloud Adoption Framework Tools and Templates
- MOAW 🔥
- Blog Cloud63 Vincent Misson
- Azure Landing Zone catalog
- Azure Talk Blog
- Achraf Ben Alaya
- Azure Docs for partners
🅰 ARM
👀 Analytics and monitoring
- Log Analytics Query Portal
- Kusto explorer
- Monitoring Azure by using Grafana dashboards
- Azure Monitor Community 🔥
- Log Analytics cost
- azure-monitoring-certificates
- Query collection
- Azure Monitor Logs table reference
- https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-governance-and-management/azure-monitor-baseline-alerts-amba-for-azure-landing-zone-alz-is/ba-p/3936951
🟦 Azure Active Directory (Entra Id)
- Azure AD where is your data located
- Tenant availability check 1
- Tenant availability check 2
- Azure AD pricing
- Interactive authentication
- Azure Active Directory admin center 🔥
- Azure AD Exporter
- Azure AD Big Picture 🔥
- Microsoft Graph Changelog
- Azure AD Security Config Analyzer (AADSCA)
- Azure-AccessPermissions
- Decode, verify and generate Token
- AAD Osint tool
- https://myaccount.microsoft.com/groups/groups-i-belong-to
💪 Bicep
🏅 Certifications
- Official certifications training poster 🔥
- Browse Certifications by roles
- Microsoft Learn
- Exam Sandbox, demo the Microsoft exam experience
- Microsoft learn community
- Practice Assessments for Microsoft Certifications
- Practice Assessments for Microsoft Certifications 2
- Azure Open Source Labs
⛅ Cloud Services Comparison
- Public Cloud Services Comparison 🔥
- Azure VM Comparison
- Compare AWS and Azure services to Google Cloud
- Compare Azure and AWS services
- Azure MarketPlace
🚨 Compliance
- Microsoft compliance offerings
- Microsoft Privacy Statement
- Microsoft trust center
- Service trust portal
- Compliance Manager portal
📊 DashBoards
- Azure Orphan Resources workbook
- Network Security Dashboard for Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- CCO GitHub Contributions Dashboard 🔥
- CCO ADO Contributions Dashboard
- Azure Hybrid Benefit Workbook
- AKS Security Workbook
- Azure Hybrid Benefits Workbook
- Azure Saving Plans Dashboard
- Azure Cost Management Dashboard
- Cloud Roles and Operations Management DashBoard
- Azure Service Retirement Workbook
- Azure Inventory Workbook 🔥
🚀 DevOps
- Learn git branching 🔥
- Vinijmoura GitHub Repo
- Azure DevOps Labs
- Azure DevOps Demo Generator
- Azure DevOps Organization 🔥
- Devops Resources
- Devops Bookmark
- Devops roadmap
- The Microsoft Azure Developer's Cheat Sheet
- awesome-french-devops
- Secret scanning in Azure DevOps
- CNCF Cloud Native Interactive Landscape
- https://www.conventionalcommits.org/
- devsecops-periodic-table
- Continuous Delivery Landscape
- DevOps Anti-Types
🚀 DevOps News
💵 FinOps
- Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator
- Azure Pricing calculator 🔥
- Strategies to realizing Cost Savings in Azure
- Budget Alert in Teams
- Azure Optimization Engine (AOE)
- Microsoft Defender for Cloud Price Estimation Dashboard
- Cost optimization pillar
- Azure Cost Reporting PBI
- Project Bose: Cost of an Enterprise by cost centers, divisions, projects
- The Azure FinOps guide 🔥
- Azure Cost Cli 🔥
- FinOps whitepaper
- What causes Azure costs to increase
- https://github.com/microsoft/finops-toolkit/releases/tag/v0.1.1
- Optimize Your Azure Costs 🔥
🤣 Fun Images
🤖 GitHub
- GitHub emoji cheat sheet 🔥
- Build your own octocat
- Bitmoji
- All IP ranges used by GitHub Actions runners
🏫 Governance
- AzAdvertizer 🔥
- AzGovViz
- Continuous Cloud Optimization (CCO) 🔥
- AzureSecurityCenterInventory
- Azure Resource Inventory (ARI)
- Azure Visualizer (AzViz)
- New (diagrams.net) diagram
- Azure Raci toolkit
- Azure Naming Tool
- Azure Periodic Table of Resource Naming Convention 🔥
- The perfect Azure naming convention
- Variables naming convention
- remove Unauthorized Role Assignments
- Azure Analytics Architecture Advisor
🔍 Graph KQL
- KQL - threat hunting hub
- https://kql-search-2.vercel.app/
- https://www.kqlsearch.com/
- https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-governance-and-management/announcing-authorizationresources-in-azure-resource-graph/ba-p/3813912?WT.mc_id=DT-MVP-5001664
💥 HA and DR
- Azure Geographies and regions
- Azure cross regions replication
- Azure regions and availability zones
- Azure Business Continuity Guide
- https://azure.microsoft.com/mediahandler/files/resourcefiles/resilience-in-azure-whitepaper/Resilience%20in%20Azure.pdf
- Reliability with microsoft Azure Infographic
📢 Informations
🔍 LightHouse
📌 Misc
- Azure Mask
- Raspberry Simulator for IOT Hub
- sqlflow
- Nuage de mots
- Wiki Tech
- Azure Tips and Tricks
- Code Error
- quickref cheatsheets and quick references
- https://login.microsoftonline.com/logout.srf
- https://login.microsoftonline.com/login.srf
- https://cheatography.com/
- https://www.commontools.org/
- Azure serverless community library
⏩ Move or migration
- https://github.com/ElanShudnow/AzureCode/tree/main/PowerShell/AzResourceMoveSupport
- https://github.com/mustafakaya/Azure-Reliability-Checker-Tool
- Migration Execution Guide
🌐 Network
- https://azureipranges.azurewebsites.net/ 🔥
- https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-networking-blog/the-azure-networking-map/ba-p/3706001
- Network-segmentation-cheat-sheet
- https://github.com/Azure/Azure-Network-Security
- https://github.com/nehalineogi/azure-networking
- https://github.com/Azure/ipam
- https://www.submarinecablemap.com/
- https://github.com/ElanShudnow/AzureCode/tree/main/PowerShell/AzVNETOverlap
- https://github.com/mattfeltonma/azure-network-journey
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/example-scenario/gateway/firewall-application-gateway
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/774683/using-azure-firewall-with-web-application-behind-w
- https://blog.cellenza.com/cloud-2/comment-deployer-une-architecture-hub-and-spoke-avec-azure-firewall/)
- https://github.com/nicolgit/azure-firewall-mon) 🔥
- https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/core-infrastructure-and-security/quick-start-guide-to-azure-private-endpoints-with-aks-amp/ba-p/3943803
- https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-networking-blog/understanding-expressroute-private-peering-to-address/ba-p/4081850
- Azure IP ranges
👮 Policies
- Windows using Guest Configuration
- Azure Policy As Code
- Policy-as-code with Azure Pipelines
- Policy Distribution Dashboard for Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- Ryan Graham GitHub Repo
- tyconsulting GitHub Repo
- Azure Community Policy GitHub Repo 🔥
- Azure Policy Compliance WorkBook
- AWESOME-Azure-Policy
- Azure Diagnostics Policy Generator
- Configure centralized policy management
- Policies Aliases List
- Terraform policies as code 🔥
- Terraform policies as code repo 🔥
- CAF Policies 🔥
- https://blog.tyang.org/2023/09/30/natively0monitoring-azure-policy-compliance-states-in-azure-monitor-2023-edition/
- https://andrewmatveychuk.com/how-to-validate-azure-tags/
- https://medium.com/@geralexgr/azure-policy-require-specific-tags-on-resources-72b911f6c725
- https://www.blueboxes.co.uk/working-with-tags-in-azure-resource-graph-explorer
- https://github.com/fawohlsc/azure-policy-testing
- https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/core-infrastructure-and-security/azure-policy-recommended-practices/ba-p/3798024?WT.mc_id=DT-MVP-5001664
- https://azure.github.io/enterprise-azure-policy-as-code
- https://github.com/Azure/enterprise-azure-policy-as-code
- https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/core-infrastructure-and-security/azure-enterprise-policy-as-code-a-new-approach/ba-p/3607843
- https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/core-infrastructure-and-security/infrastructure-as-code-testing-with-azure-policy/ba-p/3921765?WT.mc_id=DT-MVP-5001664
- https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/core-infrastructure-and-security/cost-governance-with-azure-policy/ba-p/3791888?WT.mc_id=DT-MVP-5001664
- https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-network-security-blog/enforcing-and-managing-azure-ddos-protection-with-azure-policy/ba-p/3933172?WT.mc_id=DT-MVP-5001664
- https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/fasttrack-for-azure/azure-policy-for-azure-container-apps-yes-please/ba-p/3775200?WT.mc_id=DT-MVP-5001664
- https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/core-infrastructure-and-security/infrastructure-as-code-testing-with-azure-policy/ba-p/3921765
- https://jeffbrown.tech/azure-policy-resource-lock/
🌐 Portals
- Azure Preview portal
- Azure RC portal
- Microsoft portals
- Microsoft portals 2
- Azure portals 3
- Microsoft Administrator Portals
- MyApps
- Azure Cloud Shell Web
🅿 Powershell
- https://arcanecode.com/2020/12/14/iterate-over-a-hashtable-in-powershell/
- Gain insights into your Azure role assignments on subscription level
🧱 Routing and NVA
- https://nwktimes.blogspot.com/2023/05/azure-nva-redundancy-part-I.html
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/reference-architectures/hybrid-networking/hub-spoke) 🔥 🔥
- https://anktsrkr.github.io/post/connect-azure-with-your-on-prem-network-part-1/) 🔥 🔥
- https://medium.com/@andragabr/enabling-direct-onprem-site-access-to-azure-private-vmss-resources-via-internal-load-balancer-a-118f13f4ca18
💀 Security
- Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architectures (MCRA) 🔥
- Azucar
- ScoutSuite
- Secure DevOps Kit
- Skyark
- MicroBurst
- Stormspotter
- Cloud Katana
- Azure Security Control Mappings to MITRE ATT&CK®
- Azure Hunter
- Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)
- Azure Review CheckList 🔥
- CloudSploit Security Remediation Guides
- Identifying & Exploiting Leaked Azure Storage Keys
- cloud security vulnerabilities
- [Windows AppLocker Bypass] regsvr32.exe /s /u /i:test.sct scrobj.dll
- Cybersecurity-jobs-skills-workshop
- HackTricks
- Azure Secret Rotation
- Depix is a tool for recovering passwords from pixelized screenshots
- Snoop
- Get Azure bearer token
- Arachni Web application security scanner
- OSINT web-check
- Hack The Box
- Root Me
- GraphRunner
- Open bucket and storage account
- Labyrinthinesecurity silhouette
📝 Services
- Azure Charts 🔥
- Azure Periodic table
- Azure Services io
- Azure Deprecation DashBoard
- Azure Charts Deprecations 🔥
- Azure Charts Arrivals 🔥
- Azure Status 🔥
- New Azure Status 🔥
- Azure Infrastructure Map 🔥
- Azure Speed Test 2.0
- AzSpeedTest Powershell
- AzureSpeed
- SLA for Azure services
- SLA Calculator
✍ Stencils and icons
- Official Microsoft Azure Cloud and AI Symbol / Icon Set - SVG - Pointer
- sandroasp Icon Set
- David-Summers Icon Set 🔥
- Azure Docs collection
- Azure Icons collection 🔥
- Azure Patterns collection
- Azure cds Collection
- ContentCollateral
- Azure Icons Libraries for Diagrams.net (Draw.io) 🔥
- Azure architecture SVG icons 🔥
- Diagram as code
- Azure Design Studio
- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/patterns/styles/glyphs-icons/
- https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-developer-community/draw-io-azure-infrastructure-diagrams-through-code-like-an/ba-p/4071316
🪴 Sustainability
🧑🚒 Support
🔖 Tags
- Develop your naming and tagging strategy for Azure resources
- Naming and tagging conventions tracking template
- How to tag your resources on AWS / GCP / Azure?
🟪 Terraform
- aztfy
- Azure terraform-azurerm-caf-enterprise-scale
- Azure caf-terraform-landingzones
- Terraform from 0 to hero flaviusdinu
- azure-network-terraform
- Infracost
- Johan Vanneuville
- Terraform and Azure DevOps pipelines
- Terraform labs
- How to run PowerShell scripts on Azure VMs with Terraform
- https://azure.github.io/Azure-Verified-Modules/
- https://github.com/tenable/terrascan
🛫 Terraform Deployment
- Deploying terraform-azure-vnet-hub-spoke
- Deploying azurefirewall-hub-spoke-demo
- Deploying deploying-and-configuring-azure-firewall-using-terraform
- Firewall As Code 🔥
- https://github.com/DonKoning/megaLinter/tree/main
- https://github.com/WinOpsDBA/DBAinTheCloud/tree/master/06-vm-extensions
- https://github.com/nicolgit/hub-and-spoke-playground
💻 Virtual machines
- Azure VM sizes
- Start / Stop VMs 1
- Start / Stop VMs 2
- Azureprice
- Virtual machines selector 🔥
- Automanage Machine Configuration
↗ Virtual Machines Scale Set
🌍 Web
🎥 Youtube
📒 Wiki JS
- https://blog.devops.dev/100-automated-wiki-deployment-with-terraform-using-microsoft-azure-app-service-docker-based-and-9274e6848181
- https://medium.com/@ivantrevino/100-managed-wiki-deployment-using-microsoft-azure-app-service-docker-based-and-azure-database-871a6abe8a6c
- https://www.webfx.com/tools/emoji-cheat-sheet