Azure For weeks Marcel Zehner and I have held four live streams. Covering ‘everything’ related to Infrastructure as code on Azure.
In the series, we covered the following topics, and everything is now available on YouTube
Uncategorised I was 20 years old when I entered a pink building in Oslo for my first (real) job interview. After only one conversation, I was offered a job, and I accepted it on the spot. Little did I knew that I was going to work for this company called Intility for 14 years.
14 years is a very long time, but not that long considering the circumstances. Of course, I have considered a move earlier, but I’m glad I waited this long.
When I accepted the offer in 2007. Intlity had around 80 full-time employees. Today, a little more than a decade later, they have around 400 employees. Own their own building in the heart of Oslo and the name of a football (soccer) stadium.
Since 2007 I have been trusted with a variety of responsibilities, the opportunity, and backing to form my own career. Resulting in international speaking gigs and two Microsoft MVP awards.
I am very grateful to have played a part in this journey, but this is strange times. Working from home since March gave me a lot of time to think and I believe I made the correct choice.
Intility has grown from an IT outsourcing and hosting provider to becoming a platform for companies wanting to grow, based on technology.
I believe that technology platforms are going to shape the future. And when I was offered a job at yet another successful, Norwegian technology platform I wanted to join.
I am happy to announce I have accepted a position as TechLead for platforms at Vipps.
Vipps is a Technology and identity platform which has revolutionized how we look at B2c and friend payments in Norway and are now expanding to Europe with their mobile payment solution.
Not knowing what to expect, I am surely looking forward to joining another Norwegian tech rocket. Working with the technology I love.
Azure Sign up for our next livestream; How to deploy resources using CI/CD
In our Infrastructure as code live stream series, Marcel Zehner and I covered a new feature in the Azure IAC space. Namely deployment scripts. With deployment scripts for Azure, you can run PowerShell or Bash (CLI) scripts within your ARM templates.
You may have heard of Custom script extension for Azure Windows VMs, this is sort of the same thing. Making you able to call external systems during deployment, or perform the last-mile configuration to your infrastructure.
You can find all our recordings on youtube and all code examples on github
Azure Together with MVP and Regional Director, Marcel Zehner we are running four live streams on Azure Resource Manager deployments using ARM templates. Recording from our first live stream, Complex ARM templates is available now.
In this session, we covered how you should use parameters, functions, and dependencies to create more reusable code, and how to control the result of your user’s input.
You can find the recording on YouTube, and the script examples on GitHub
We have three more ARM template live streams planned- hopefully we will see you there:
Nested & linked ARM templates
Date & Time: October 12, 2020, 5PM CEST
Registration: https://lnkd.in/deW4xXJ
Attendee Link: https://lnkd.in/dz_WgyW
Deployment scripts
Date & Time: October 19, 2020, 5PM CEST
Registration: https://lnkd.in/dhEYeMr
Code release using pipelines
Date & Time: October 26, 2020, 5PM CEST
Registration: https://lnkd.in/d_JuDuv
Community Almost a year has passed since I received my first MVP award in the Azure category. Although it has been a challenging year personally, and with the ongoing pandemic. I am delighted to share that I was renewed as Microsoft MVP for 2020-2021.
As things hopefully normalize I hope to get back on the community saddle, and contribute more in person and virtually.
A big thanks to my family, fantastic colleagues at Intility, and my community friends. Have a great summer!
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