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Microsoft Azure
Running workloads and servers in Azure and beyond: Arc, Functions, networking, governance and cost.
Start here
- Azure Arc for servers: the complete setup guide
How to set up Azure Arc for servers end to end: how the agent works, network and firewall needs, every onboarding method, and fixes for common errors. - How a Tube gate gets paid: half a second at the edge, the maths in the back office
How London's contactless Tube gates open in half a second without waiting for your bank, and the cloud design lesson behind the system. - What's actually inside an Azure region? From the planet to one server, then we break it
Pick UK South from a dropdown and you're choosing a real place: zones, buildings, fences, generators, racks and hosts.
Coming up
- 10 Nov 2026 .NET 8 and .NET 9 end of support
- 10 Nov 2026 Azure Functions in-process model support ends
- 10 Nov 2026 Azure IoT Edge 1.5 LTS end of servicing
- 12 Jan 2027 .NET Framework 4.6.2 reaches end of support
- 31 Jan 2027 Azure Blueprints retires
- 31 Mar 2027 Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise tiers retire
- 31 Mar 2027 Cloud Services (extended support) fully retired
- 31 Mar 2027 Azure Front Door (classic) retires
Learning paths
Reference and tools
All Microsoft Azure posts (18)
- 10 November is the biggest end-of-support day of the year: what ends, how to find it, and what to move to 29 Oct 2026
- The PHP flaw that took websites offline worldwide: what AI found, and what to do in Azure today 21 Oct 2026
- Ten new free tools for Azure, Entra and Intune admins, and Admin Lens 2.1 21 Oct 2026
- Azure Functions in-process model ends 10 November 2026: find and migrate your apps 19 Oct 2026
- Azure Arc for servers: the complete setup guide 17 Oct 2026
- What's actually inside an Azure region? From the planet to one server, then we break it 13 Oct 2026
- Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2: the last security update ships tomorrow 12 Oct 2026
- How a Tube gate gets paid: half a second at the edge, the maths in the back office 10 Oct 2026
- Road to 50: how this blog runs for about £1 a month 8 Oct 2026
- Stop surprise Azure bills with budgets and anomaly alerts 26 Aug 2026
- Private endpoints and DNS: why your private endpoint isn't being used 19 Aug 2026
- Key Vault: move from access policies to Azure RBAC 12 Aug 2026
- Six KQL queries for Entra sign-in logs every admin should keep 11 Mar 2026
- Resource locks: a cheap insurance policy against the wrong click 18 Feb 2026
- Azure Policy guardrails every subscription should have 4 Feb 2026
- Deploy from GitHub Actions to Azure without storing a single secret 21 Jan 2026
- Managed identities vs service principals: which should your workload use? 7 Jan 2026
- Turning on Defender CSPM across a landing zone 3 Dec 2025