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If you're doing Kubernetes, you should definitely be doing Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) and the tools to help you do so are a dime a dozen. I work...

This is going to be a short post because the "meat" is on my GitHub/sabbour. I realized that search engines index this blog much better than they index my GitHub...

Install gpg using Homebrew: brew install gpg. Follow the GitHub guide to generate a new gpg key. Add the gpg key to your GitHub account. Get around this issue by...

This guide will help you create a Secured Linux Service Fabric cluster that runs inside an existing Virtual Network and Subnet using the Azure CLI. You can get the required...

Introduction You may have heard of the Azure Application Gateway which is a Layer-7 HTTP load balancer that provides application-level routing and load balancing services that let you build a...

Introduction In this post, I'm going to create a multi-Master Galera cluster of MariaDBs, a robust, scalable, and reliable drop-in replacement for MySQL, to work in a highly available environment...

Introduction Achieving High Availability on your database level is essential in order to maintain your application availability. On Azure, you can provision a managed highly-available MySQL database cluster through a...

Introduction Magento is a powerful eCommerce system and in this post, we're going to explore installing Magento Community Edition on an Azure Website. Create website Login to the portal and...

With recent high profile hacks, like what happened with Code Spaces and the @n twitter hack, simply using passwords is becoming something that is inadequate as attackers are becoming more...

Introduction This is part 2 of a 2 part blog post. Read part 1 here. So in part 1, we've created a local Symfony2 PHP website that uses Composer to...

Introduction There is no doubt that Composer is a really cool dependency manager for PHP, sort of like NuGet for ASP.net, npm for Node.js and gems for Ruby. It makes...

Introduction You are creating a PHP website on Windows Azure and need to install additional PHP extensions not provided by default (like MongoDB or IonCube), you’ve come to the right...

Introduction Have you considered migration to a Windows Azure website? The thought of downloading the files and content from your old website, then uploading them again to Windows Azure is...

Introduction I’ve covered in my previous post how to create a LAMP stack on Windows Azure using the BitNami provided image. In this post, I’ll alternatively create the lamp stack...

Introduction In the previous post, I’ve shown you how to create a WIMP stack (Windows, IIS, MySQL, PHP) on a Windows Azure virtual machine. In this post, we’ll be creating...

Introduction In this post, I'll take you through how you can create a WIMP stack (regardless of the name!) onto a Windows Azure VM really easy. I'm a guy who...

This is part 2 of a 3 part series where we will get to know how Notification Hubs work and why they are a cool feature of Windows Azure. You...

This is part 1 of a 3 part series where we will get to know how Notification Hubs work and why they are a cool feature of Windows Azure. You...

The invitation is public, so feel free to distribute it. In Accordance to our effort to deliver deep technical training to our partners and developers community, we are resuming the...

Introduction Creating a WordPress based site on Windows Azure is already pretty trivial, you can very easily select WordPress from the gallery when creating an Azure Website. The problem is,...

Having a database on the cloud has never been easier. In this post, I’ll show you how to create your own database server on the cloud and create databases on...

Introduction If you want to keep track of your Website versions, easily switch between deployments but don’t want a more complicated version control system such Git or TFS, then this...

If you upload a .json file to your Windows Azure website and try to access it, it would give you a 404 File Not Found error, because the MIME Type...

What’s WebMatrix 3? If you haven’t checked out WebMatrix 3 yet, you should. It is a free, lightweight, cloud-connected web development tool that enables you to create, publish and maintain...

Introduction In the previous post, we learned how to customize a virtual machine and capture it as a reusable image. In this post we are going to be building on...

Introduction In this 2 series post, we'll be creating a web farm of virtual machines running IIS on Windows Server 2012. In the first part, we will customize a Windows...

We've been doing a combined demo in our dev camps recently, which is a shopping list application that works cross platform (Windows 8, Windows Phone and Android) with a Windows...

YouTube channel I started posting video tutorials on YouTube under my channel here: http://aka.ms/sabbourazure 4Afrika Azure Champ Calls We also started a monthly Windows Azure champ call, which will also...

Introduction I've been in this situation many times, I have an API that needs an authenticated user to access it, how can this problem be solved? You could pass the...

Introduction In this post, I'll be creating an application that registers for monitoring a specific hashtag on twitter for new tweets. When there is a batch of new tweets, the...

Furthering Windows Azure commitment to open source development, Microsoft announced http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/home/scenarios/mobile-services/ that developers can begin using Windows Azure Mobile Services to develop native Android applications. Mobile Services makes it easy...

Introduction If you haven't checked out the ASP.net and Web Tools 2012.12 release, you should! It is a tooling refresh of Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2012 Express for...

Introduction Have you heard of VM Depot? VM Depot is part of the Microsoft Open Technologies initiative, which is only one way of how Microsoft is opening up to open...

Hello friends, you'll find my presentation "Meet Windows Azure" presented at the Microsoft Kenya Developer Camp on Skydrive below: https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=a41c4b916c22d07e&id=A41C4B916C22D07E!107#!/?cid=a41c4b916c22d07e&id=A41C4B916C22D07E%21107 Feel free to reach out to me by commenting on...

I'm writing this post from Kenya, where I'm presenting Windows Azure this week at the #MSKenCamp. Be sure to follow the hashtag and @AfricaApps for updates on our whereabouts. Introduction...

If now is the time for anything, it is the time of the cloud. If you've been wanting to try out cloud computing, why wait? Even if you haven't considered...

Hello, my name is Ahmed Sabbour. I'm a technology geek, I love taking photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/sabbour and I love cooking http://pinterest.com/sabbour. I'm also working as a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft and...