Month: January 2022

Latest updates on OSS 🧡 AWESOME Azure Bicep 💪

Hello Cloud Marathoners!

As you were informed in my last post, I have published a new GitHub repo to help the community and new learners with Azure Bicep resources. The new repo – AWESOME Azure Bicep 💪 is getting a high interest from all of you.

Thank you very much for accessing, starring ⭐ and forking 🍴 it!
If you learn about it now, please check it out here.

And this is not all. We have plenty of room to grow this repo with the latest contributions from you.

Two new contributors

In less than a week, we got two great contributions from Kasun Rajapakse and Luke Murray 🙌. Thank you very much for your contributions!

Get started with Azure Bicep

Let’s step-up your game and start learning the latest 🚀 Azure #infrastructureascode language (aka, Bicep).
I sincerely invite you to become a part of this really great “learn and share” initiative of Azure Bicep.

Share your interest and knowledge with the community by opening your very first GitHub PR.

Looking for a video course on Azure Bicep ?🤔
>> Azure Bicep First Look 👉 https://lnkd.in/eWsxf3hj is here to help!

Summary

This project is growing and let’s become a part of this Azure Bicep community !

Ready to make your first PR to Awesome Azure Bicep repo?
Please check out the contribution guide or reach out if you need help in this process.

What is the AWESOME Azure Bicep ? 💪

Hello Cloud Marathoners!

I have been getting many questions on how to start an Azure Bicep journey – in a special and AWESOME way 😀 – which brought an idea to create the AWESOME Azure Bicep GitHub repo for the community 🎉

Long story short, this has been on ideation for few days and is life now, as of Jan 18, 2022 ! 😍

Now, I have started gradually adding important official and community resources to help new #Azure learners and #cloudmarathoners!

AWESOME Azure Bicep repo

Please, share ⭐ and fork 🍴 this repo and make your contributions.

I really ask you 🙌🙏 to make your contributions and help maintain and grow this repo going forward.

Thank you for all your 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 continued support!

Welcoming the Microsoft Exam Simulator ✔️

Hi Cloud Marathoners!

It is pretty common for every new student to be worried about exam software ⚙️ and its user expereince, in addition to being prepared for the exam. However, this is not an issue anymore.

Microsoft Learn has introduced a demo exam simulator that looks, works and feels like you are having a real Microsoft exam. This news was just announced by Microsoft Learn Blog.

I believe this is an important help for all the #cloudmarathoners and friends who are just starting their Microsoft Azure journey.

Why is it helpful?

Well, using this new exam sandbox should better prepare you for the exam experience. This should also increase your familiarity with the user interface, how to navigate between exam sections, pages and Q&A.

This simulator also shows you what actions are required to answer each of the different question types, where information about the exam is located, how to mark questions for review and how to provide comments at the end of the exam.

Important

Keep in mind that a secure browser that will be launched during a real exam will block all third-party applications running on your computer. Thus, I would strongly advise you to install and run the exam provider’s (like, Pearson VUE or any other) simulator on your local computer a day or two before the actual exam date. This will be an additional peace of mind to have in your checklist for a pleasant exam experience.

Conclusion

I sincerely wish you Good Luck ❤️ in your upcoming exam(s) !

Are you ready to give it a try ?
Then check it out for #free >> https://aka.ms/examdemo

References: New to Microsoft certification exams?

Happy to join the #OpenHack Containers coaches club 🎉

Hello Cloud Marathoners!

Few weeks ago, I participated in the Microsoft OpenHack Containers event. This was an awesome event where I had a chance to coach a team of professionals to tackle containerization challenges.

What is Microsoft OpenHack

Microsoft OpenHack is a developer-focused engagement that connects development teams (Open) with experts to tackle a series of real-world challenges through hands-on experimentation (Hack) in person or online (Virtual).

What was in the challenge?

We started with good old docker tooling for containers and ended up migrating those several containers and dependencies to the Azure Kubernetes Services. However, the most interesting part was applying best practices and security configurations to the migrated workloads.

Due to participation disclosure agreement, I would not be able to detail each team challenge (about 7-8). However, this was real teamwork that required learning and experimenting for all the team members.

My team went through ups and downs while trying to complete the necessary number of challenges to earn the badge. I am very happy that my team was able to complete the required challenges, learn important hands-on skills, and get their well deserved badges.

I was very pleased to help my team along their containerization journey. At the end, I feel very honored and appreciated to receive an OpenHack Containers Coach badge.

OpenHack: Containers Coach

Interested to get started with containers in Azure ?

Check out the following #free resources to start your own containerization learning path in Azure:

Thank you  🙌 for reading this post and checking the learning resources above.

Please, feel free to share your experience with the #cloudmarathoner community.
I will be happy to share your experience and tips here as well. 🎉

I am planning to keep this post up to date with your valuable contributions going forward!