by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | Jul 17, 2018 | Azure, VM
Azure reserved virtual machine instances gives the ability to purchase Azure compute resources with up to 43% or more savings for 3-year reservation. Essentially what Microsoft did, was to listen to the customer’s needs for less cost and gave it through this...
by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | Jul 17, 2018 | Azure, DevOps
In this post we’ll talk about VSTS and TFS, we will see what their features are, check the versions and the pricing tiers of this service. What is VSTS ? VSTS is a TFS in the Cloud. For someone who already works with TFS on premise it is not difficult to...
by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | Jul 6, 2018 | Azure, Container Service (AKS)
With Azure Kubernetes Service you can create, configure and manage a cluster of VMs that can run containerized apps. Below are all the steps that someone needs to follow to create an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Prerequisites Create Service principal client ID...
by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | Jun 8, 2018 | App Service, Azure
In a previous post, I was trying to explain what Azure API App is. In this one, I show you the steps to deploy your first Azure API App. Create API App From the Azure Portal click Create a resource and search for “API App” and click Create. Azure...
by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | Jun 8, 2018 | App Service, Azure
API Apps are web services (like Web Apps). You construct code that will be deployed on Azure and there are applications designed to call these API Apps. On API Apps there is no UI (User Interface), its main responsibility is to manage data. API Apps Benefits When...