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Questions tagged [azure]

For questions about Microsoft Azure, which is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform.

Microsoft Azure (formerly Windows Azure) is Microsoft's application platform for the public cloud. Microsoft Azure can be used to build a web application or services that run and store its data in Microsoft data centres. It can connect on-premises applications with each other or map between different sets of identity information.

Use this tag for questions relating to applications hosted on Azure.

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How to have multiple git repos in an Azure DevOps project?

My organisation uses Azure DevOps and we want to use git as our repo. But, Azure projects seem to only allow one git repo per project. This is bizarre to me! Projects and repos are usually separate. One project may involve development on several…
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How can I experiment with Cloud (Azure, AWS, Google, etc) without going broke?

Cloud technologies are very hot right now, but they can be expensive. What are the best strategies for learning/trying cloud services without racking up a huge bill?
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On Azure, how do I run a short-lived Docker container on a schedule?

I have a fairly simple Unix shell script packaged up in an Alpine Linux Docker container hosted on an Azure container registry. A VM runs this script with cron: docker login docker pull example.com/bar:latest docker run …
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Separate SQL Server or just separate SQL Database for test and production?

I'm new to SQL Server, so this may be more of a SQL Server management question. I'm creating test and production databases for a service, and I imagine I'll be wiping the test database quite a lot. Additionally, I'm going to want different…
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Provisioning times for Redis in cloud taking too long, how can we shorten it?

Provisioning a 1 GB Redis cache service on AWS takes around 8 minutes. Doing the same on Azure takes around 16 minutes. Ours Terraform scripts need the call back from the Redis systems. Why is this taking so long and how can we make this process…
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Memory being abruptly freed up every day at about the same time

I have a few VMs on Windows Azure that run our ecommerce website, and lately we started using Telegraf, InfluxDb and Grafana to keep an eye on these machines. After a couple weeks of gathering data, I have noticed a weird pattern related to the…
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Is Azure's confidential computing essentially encrypted RAM?

I'm trying to wrap my head around the Azure confidential computing offering. It appears that that AWS does not offer encryption at the application level (see diagram for what I mean by this:) My question is: Is Azure's confidential computing…
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Azure - Connection String in Key Vault vs Application Settings

For Azure Functions and WebJobs, is there any benefit to putting connection strings as Secrets in Key Vault instead of putting them directly in Application Settings (and referencing them using ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings)? Are Azure Key…
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How to use tags in Amazon Web Services and Azure

I am currently building a solution on Azure (though the question should relate to AWS equally) and I am using a UniqueId tag to locate and use objects. For instance, we have a storage account that is used for caching applications' blobs. The…
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Is this an appropriate architecture, or can improvements be made?

Due to a combination of business/enterprise requirements and our architect's preferences we have arrived at a particular architecture that seems a bit off to me, but I have very limited architectural knowledge and even less cloud knowledge, so I…
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Azure Devops, multiple on-prem environments, variables per environment

I've configured first deployment pipeline to an on-prem DEV environment. The project consists of 3 identical environments, DEV, UAT and PROD While their setup is exactly alike, their config (database credentials etc.) is obviously not. I'm using…
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In the HashiCorp stack, where's the appropriate place to add users?

I'm in the process of building some custom Linux images using HashiCorp's Packer, which will later be deployed to Azure using HashiCorp's Terraform. The VMs created from these images will need to have a set of users created; in this particular case…
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Azure DevOps service connection: lifetime of service principal

I have a hard time understanding the lifetime of the service principal created in Azure AD when creating the service connection between Azure DevOps and Azure. I do it like this: I pick the Azure Resource Manager And then i choose the…
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How to prevent Azure Traffic Manager from routing over high latency connections in a fail-over scenario?

We have a service hosted in four regions, two in North America and two in Europe. We are using Azure Traffic Manager to provide: Performance-based routing - that is routing consumers to the service that has the lowest latency. Fail-over - if one…
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docker compose & azure key vault - passing secrets to a container on startup

I am using docker-compose to create 5 containers that run my application. Two containers need credentials retrieve from Azure Key Vault (web.config passwords to access 3rd party service). As I am committing this to a public repo I do not want to…
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