Category: Community event

Azure Spring Clean 2025 – sessions are accepted to present on Governance with Azure Bicep and AKS monitoring trends

Hello, hello my dear friends and community members!

This March month is going to be very busy, as I got notified that one of my solo sessions, and one joint session with Kasun – a Microsoft MVP and Docker captain – has been accepted, two weeks ago. And most importantly, I will be folding my sleeves to start preparations for the following sessions:

  • The Future of AKS Monitoring: Trends and tools you can’t ignore
  • Tips and tricks to automate resource governance with Azure Bicep

What to expect from a session – Future of AKS Monitoring?

In this session, we dive deep into the evolving landscape of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) monitoring — exploring the latest trends, essential tools, and best practices to future-proof your observability strategy.

What you’ll learn in this session:

✅ Current state of AKS monitoring: Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Prometheus, and more.
✅ Must-have tools: Grafana, Azure Managed Prometheus,
✅ Best practices for designing scalable, high-availability monitoring solutions
✅ Live demo: Setting up Prometheus + Grafana on AKS and integration

What to expect from a Governance with Bicep session?

In this new session, you will learn how to simplify resource governance, ensure compliance, and easily maintain control over your Azure environment.

I have following key topics included in the session:
✅ Basics of Azure Policy and its core components
✅ Creating and managing policy definitions and assignments
✅ Leveraging built-in policies and custom policy creation
✅ Integrating Azure Bicep for efficient resource deployment and governance
✅ Real-world examples and use cases

Call to Action

Don’t miss these sessions during the March month, and as always, you are welcome to provide feedback or ask questions.

Reference post with links to the recorded session – The Future of AKS Monitoring: Trends and tools you can’t ignore.

Another reference post to a recorded session – Tips and tricks to automate resource governance with Azure Bicep.

Recognized by Sessionize.com as a top 3% active speaker for 2024 🎉

Hello dear #CloudMarathoner family and community members!

I’m thrilled to share that Sessionize.com has recognized me as one of the top 3% most active speakers for 2024 🎉

This is my second time receiving this honor in the past few years, thanks to 42 international speaking events over the years.

Thank you for support

Huge Thank You to everyone for your incredible support, including our awesome #CloudMarathoner community and Sessionize.com for this recognition🙏

I also want to extend my gratitude to T-Rex Solutions, LLC for their unwavering support in my Microsoft MVP and speaker journey. Your encouragement has been invaluable!

My Sessionize.com presentations

If you never checked it before, then please feel free to check my speaker profile 👉 https://lnkd.in/eUcQ2tWS

You should be able to see my bio, past and upcoming events, and the topics I love discussing in my online and in-person sessions.

Let’s keep pushing the boundaries of cloud engineering and learning together 🚀

Starting 2025 with an exciting renewal announcement 🌟 🎉

Greetings to all #CloudMarathoner friends!

I am trilled and honored to share this great news with all of you. As of the beginning of January, I have been notified and recognized as Microsoft Certified Trainer (#MCT) Community Lead for the #USA region for 2025!

What is MCT Community Lead?

This role represents an incredible opportunity to continue empowering our vibrant training and learning community, fostering collaboration, and supporting MCTs in their mission to deliver impactful training experiences.

As your MCT Community Lead (previously known as, MCT Regional Lead), my focus will remain on sharing knowledge, nurturing connections, and elevating the presence of #Microsoft technologies across regions while helping new #MCT colleagues to excel!

Honored to serve you as MCT Community Lead in 2025

I am excited to continue working alongside my high-caliber trainer friends, driving meaningful initiatives, and building on the strong foundation of innovation and mentorship that makes our #community thrive in helping customers with #Microsoft technologies.

Thanks to the Microsoft team members, which includes Sarah Kong, Linda Larkan, MS, MEd, MCT, and previously Tracey Carisch have done an amazing job in reinvigorating this program 🙏🙏🙏

Do you have questions about MCT program?

Please, check my following post on LinkedIn platform and let me know if you need any help with MCT program.

Again, and again – please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions to the MCT program and I will bring your voice and concern to MCT leadership and try to address it asap. Here is the URL for the post 👉 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/elkhanyusubov_mct-usa-microsoft-activity-7280810348616531968-ia1t/

New session announcement – Are you interested to unlock your AKS skills with Azure bicep language?

Hello Cloud Marathoner friends!

If you are into managed Kubernetes services and Infrastructure as a Code implementation on Microsoft Azure, then keep reading.

Session Announcement

Next week. join our tech-savvy workshop with Kasun Rajapakse, an Azure MVP and Docker Captain. In this festive session for the Festive Tech Calendar event, we will unwrap the wonders of Azure Kubernetes Service (also known as AKS) provisioning using the Bicep language and showcase the latest AKS features.

What will be covered?

In this jolly session, we’ll delve into the secrets of deploying AKS clusters with Bicep, turning your cloud infrastructure into a winter wonderland of efficiency and scalability. Whether you’re an experienced elf or a newbie on Santa’s list, this session is perfect for everyone eager to harness the power of Azure Kubernetes Service.

What you need to do before session?

Get ready to sleigh your cloud game with our festive demonstrations of AKS features. Deck the halls with knowledge and cheer as we bring the magic of AKS and Bicep to life!

Call to Action

Please come prepared to our session with your great questions on gears and skills that elves need to learn about. Your help to get them prepared will be appreciated very deeply.

Join elves for a holly jolly tech adventure session with the details below:

📆 Event Date: Dec 21, 10 am EST
📌 YT Channel 👉 https://lnkd.in/ehkCwVep
🐈‍⬛ GitHub repo 👉 https://lnkd.in/eUUTxBhE

Achieving new milestone with #CloudMarathoner community members and Bicep contributors!

Hello my dear friends!

Thank you to everyone 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 who joined the #CloudMarathoner community and always support us in this great learning journey to empower learners ⛅🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️!

We are continuing sharing awesome Cloud knowledge, skills and experiences in 2024 with a great contribution from all of you 💪

Latest stats on members

Our #CloudMarathoner #community has grown into more than 2000+ members!
Huge Thanks for #sharing posts and making this happen 🙌 🎉🎈

🎯 The fact is that in the last month alone, we added 81+ new members to our growing #cloudcommunity. Our reach to the new learners is just accelerating every week and month due to your shadings.

Highlight on some community members

Our strong team members like Hugo Barona Katerina Chernevskaya Dwayne, Jackson Felden, Kasun Rajapakse, Anuradha Samaranayake, Maria Ashby, Martin Dimovski, John Lokerse, John Hart, Dan Rios, 🚀Dries V.., Ahmad KANAAN, Akshay Arun Mandlik, Janusz Nowak, Luke Murray, Sam Cogan, Christopher Maneu, Matt Willson, @kewalaka, Sarah Lean,
Ahmad Abdalla, @RehabAbotalep, Sebastian Gräf, Joseph Thompson, Ravikanth Chaganti, Evgeny R., and Andrii Molchanov stepped up the game with numerous contributions👏

Bicep and Iac Resources

Check out a curated list of blogs, videos, tutorials, code, tools, scripts, and anything useful to help you learn Microsoft #AzureBicep 💪 language 👉 https://lnkd.in/e58nEfbd SharingIsCaring ❤️️

Subscribe to a #CloudMarathoner hashtag on LinkedIn platform 👏👀
Stay tuned for more Cloud, Automation & Security-related posts.

Check out the Building Privacy-Enhancing Cloud Workflows with Confidential Computing session with Ridwan Badmus

Greeting to all #Cloudmarathoners!

In this first week of October, we had an interesting session to explore privacy and confidential computing from an engineering perspective.

FOCUS OF THE SESSION

Our speaker focused on some hidden details of Implementing Confidential Computing, namely learn how to leverage Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) to build secure and privacy-conscious cloud workflows. Ridwan also emphasized aligning Governance with Privacy Regulations, as well as discovering strategies to ensure your cloud governance practices comply with evolving data privacy regulations.

In addition, he expanded topic with optimizing Cloud Investments by exploring how enhanced data security and minimized compliance risks can optimize outputs from your cloud investments.

Thank you, Ridwan!

Ridwan Badmus is a lawyer and privacy engineer who is interested to help customers. He has legal and as well as engineering experience to help in these matters. Thus, feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn if you have any inquiries.

what is next?

If you would like further to explore this topic then you are encouraged to check the following resources:

Recorded Session

If you are intrigued to watch the entire session, then please visit the following YouTube link below on our Cloud Lunch and Learn channel.

Join our session with Radu Vunvulea – a Microsoft RD and MVP to learn about Cloud re(patriation) and Hybrid Cloud

Hello Cloud Marathoner friends!

This week we had a very informative session about pros and cons on staying in cloud or moving back from cloud to your on-premises systems. Thus, if you are you ready to learn about Cloud (re)patriation and Hybrid Cloud, this session is for you.

why this topic?

As you might already know, the cloud has revolutionized how businesses operate, providing agility, efficiency, and scalability. However, in recent years, cloud repatriation has emerged as a trend in which businesses are moving data or workloads back to on-premises.

Meetup link > https://www.meetup.com/azuredublin/events/301133455/

Radu will tell us all about pros and cons of cloud re(patriation) and hybrid cloud including the hidden costs in this session.

Thank you to speaker

Radu Vunvulea is a technology enthusiast working as Group Head of
Cloud Delivery for Endava. He has a vast experience in different technologies and industries. Most of his time is spent working with the cloud, helping companies to innovate and finding solutions to their business problems.

He enjoys building bridges between people and helping others to grow. He shares his knowledge on his personal blog and at different events where he is invited as a speaker. In his spare time, he drives an IT community and he is also a Microsoft Regional Director and Microsoft Azure MVP.

Recorded Session

If you are intrigued to watch the entire session, then please visit the following YouTube link below on our Cloud Lunch and Learn channel.

Join my session on Global Azure 🚀 2024 – to get started in your Cloud Architect learning journey. 💪

Greetings to all #CloudMarathoner friends!

This week, we have a wonderful opportunity to learn from a number of different sessions by attending the Global Azure 2024 event. Yay!

Generally speaking, this event is a huge success as Microsoft community members all over the world are celebrating this occasion by submitting their session for acceptance. This year, I submitted my session with the Microsoft community in the USA, called GIMME CLOUD TALKS.

Global Azure 2024, catalog of sessions

As a #CloudMarathoner we submitted one session with a title – “How to get started in your Microsoft Azure Architect learning journey?”

And as you may already know, it was accepted by one of the organizers. Wooho!!!

Check out the LinkedIn post on this unique event!

In this lightning talk, I shared bits and tips on how you could get started in your Cloud Architect journey. Namely, we focused on designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions exam objectives which is an important part of the AZ-305 exam.

By the end of the session, you should be well-informed on how to start your cloud learning journey and build toward your desired goal of becoming a Cloud Architect. As a complimentary bonus, I shared community created learning resources that will boost your knowledge, and help you get prepared for an important exam in 2024.

Please, check the recorded session below and let me know your feedback. Thank you!

Azure Spring Clean 2024 – Integrate testing process into your Azure Bicep code

Hello Cloud Marathoners!

Hope you are all doing great and excited about this year’s Azure Spring Clean 2024 event!

In this episode, I will share our new #AzureBicep session with amazing community members like you and my partner in crime, Microsoft Azure MVP Kasun Rajapakse.

🎯 Teaser description of what you could expect:

Embrace the power of comprehensive testing by integrating it seamlessly into your Azure Bicep code!
In this session, we will experiment with some testing strategies that allow you to weave testing processes effectively into your Azure Bicep infrastructure-as-code (IaC) development.

We’ll explore the pivotal role of testing in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of your Azure deployments. You will learn how to get started with Bicep-specific unit testing frameworks that complement your Bicep code, enabling you to detect and rectify potential issues at an early stage of development.

Please, feel free to each this session below:

Do you have a feedback?

Please, submit your comments on our LinkedIn post here.

Our #CloudMarathoner community is over 1600+ members strong 💪

Hello, Cloud Marathoner friends!

We started the #CloudMarathoner community and cloud learning journey approximately 3+ years ago with few posts and followers. My main intention in starting this hashtag is to help everyone learn the #cloud #fundamentals & #architecture while sharing training resources that could help you in your awesome #cloud journey.

We ARE GROWING every month

Thank you for your continued feedback and support!
Our #CloudMarathoner community is over 1600+ members strong and we are growing it every month. This community of contributors and members like Hugo Barona, Jackson Feldon, new MVP – Martin Dimovski, John Lokerse and many other leaders are able to reach and inspire many more people every day and week.

#CloudMarathoner on LinkedIn channel

IN summary

Thank you.. Thank you… and Thank you so much for ALL you do!


For being a true #cloudmarathoner in learning the #cloud and sharing it with your community!

Please, check the #CloudMarathoner #tag on LinkedIn or Twitter and share information that you find helpful.