Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine

Ctrl+Alt+Azure

Weekly conversations for cloud architects, developers, CIOs, and CISOs navigating Microsoft Azure, cloud adoption strategy, security governance, identity, and agentic AI. Hosted by industry experts Tobias Zimmergren and Jussi Roine.

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Jul 8, 2026

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Episodes

025 - Azure Policies - the how, the what, and the why? 15.04.2020

Azure Policy (Microsoft) Built-in policies (Microsoft) Building policies (Microsoft) Azure RBAC (Microsoft) Azure Policy Extensions for VS Code Lighthouse integration with Azure Policy

024 - Azure Governance - the overview 08.04.2020

Azure Governance overview (Microsoft) Azure Management Groups (Microsoft) Azure Resource Graph (Microsoft) Azure Blueprints (Microsoft) Azure Policy (Microsoft) Azure Cost Management + Billing (Microsoft) Overcast (ShareGate) Jussi's book on Azure Governance (ShareGate) A recent webinar recording on Azure Governance by Jussi and Stephane Lapointe (ShareGate, again!) Building a hybrid governance so...

023 - The basics of Azure CDN, and how you can protect it 01.04.2020

Azure CDN documentation (Microsoft) Azure Cache for Redis (Microsoft) Creating a WAF policy for Azure CDN (Microsoft) Sankohiipiminen (Water bucket sneaking - a competition!) Web Application Firewall overview (Microsoft)

022 - Getting Started with Azure Arc, the modern Group Policies 25.03.2020

Azure Arc for servers - PREVIEW (Microsoft) Onboarding servers to Azure Arc (Microsoft) Introducing Azure Arc (Ignite session) Manage hybrid servers using Azure Arc (Thomas Maurer and Donovan Brown) Building a hybrid governance solution using Azure Arc (Jussi)

021 - Talking about Azure Sentinel with Maarten Goet 18.03.2020

Maarten Goet (Twitter)  Building a monitoring solution for Power Platform events using PowerShell, C#, Azure Log Analytics, and Azure Sentinel (Jussi)  Understanding and getting started with Azure Sentinel (Jussi)  Monitoring Office 365 tenants with Azure Sentinel (Tobias)  Design considerations   Not your daddy's Splunk Threat Hunting with Jupyter   Access and authorizations for the enterprise  ...

020 - Powering your apps with Azure Cognitive Services 11.03.2020

Cognitive Services overview (Microsoft) Cognitive Services language support (Microsoft) Container support (Microsoft) Pricing (Microsoft) Language Understanding (LUIS) (Microsoft) Custom Vision (Microsoft)

019 - Understanding the basics of Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) 04.03.2020

AKS in brief (Microsoft) AKS - The Big Picture (Pluralsight - might require a subscription to view) Team Development on Kubernetes - Azure Dev Spaces (Microsoft) Introduction to Azure Dev Spaces (Microsoft) Tip: Quickly switching context between multiple clusters in Azure Kubernetes Services with cmder aliases (Tobias Zimmergren) Processing data from SQLite hosted in an Azure File share, running i...

018 - Talking about securing your Azure Container Registry (ACR) 26.02.2020

Best Practices for security in Azure Container Registry (Tobias Zimmergren) RBAC Roles and Permissions (Microsoft) ACR and Security Center integration (Microsoft) Authenticate with an Azure Container Registry (Microsoft) Authenticate to ACR with Managed Identities (Microsoft) Repository-scoped Permissions for ACR (Microsoft) Content trust in Azure Container Registry (Microsoft) Content trust and A...

017 - Planning and designing perimeter security in Azure 19.02.2020

Reference Enterprise Design for Azure Network Security (Microsoft) Load balancing overview (Flowchart decision tree guide) (Microsoft) Azure DDoS Protection Standard overview (Microsoft) Web Application Firewall on Azure Application Gateway (Microsoft) Azure Front Door (Microsoft) Secure remote access solutions for Azure Virtual Machines (Jussi)

016 - Migrating SQL Server databases to Azure SQL 12.02.2020

Migrating SQL Server 2008 databases to Azure SQL (Jussi) Data Migration Assistant (Microsoft) Azure Database migration guide (Microsoft) Tutorial on migrating data to Azure SQL (Microsoft) Anonymizing and masking sensitive data in SQL databases before migrating to Azure SQL (Jussi)

015 - A brief overview of Application Insights 05.02.2020

In this episode we explore what Application Insights can help us with in Azure, and how it can monitor and help us troubleshoot our applications and systems in the cloud.    Show notes: What is Application Insights? (Microsoft) Retrieve logs from Application Insights programmatically with .NET Core (Tobias Zimmergren)

014 - Let's talk about Azure DevOps and embracing DevSecOps 29.01.2020

Show notes: Azure DevOps (Microsoft) Secure DevOps (Microsoft Security Engineering) Embrace a Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) for Azure (Zimmergren.net) Automate Azure DevOps code security analysis with the Microsoft Security Code Analysis extension (Zimmergren.net) Get started with Azure DevOps (Microsoft Learn)

013 - Battle of the Azure Command Line - CLI, PowerShell, Windows Terminal, what more? 22.01.2020

Show notes: Azure Cloud Shell via shell.azure.com Azure Account extension for Visual Studio Code Azure Portal (mobile app): iOS , Android Nokia N900 Azure PowerShell 'Az' module Using PowerShell in Visual Studio Code A blog post from Tobias and Jussi with some fine examples on scripting (Zimmergren.net) WSL 2 deployment guide Windows Terminal (Store install), GitHub repo resources.azure.com   Cmde...

012 - Azure IoT Hub and Raspberry Pi 15.01.2020

Follow along when we talk about IoT, and how to build the Internet of Things-solutions on Azure. We talk about the devices, the services and approaches you can use to build scalable IoT solutions easily Show links: Exam AZ-220: Microsoft Azure IoT Developer (beta) Azure IoT Hub Raspberry Pi 4 Raspberry Pi Zero W Read Azure IoT Hub device-to-cloud messages from the built-in and custom endpoints Use...

011 - Considerations and Good Practices for Azure Developers 08.01.2020

Follow along when we talk a bit about considerations and practices for Azure development at scale. Performance, caching, redundancies and more - some good tips for thinking before kicking off development.   Show notes: Azure Application Architecture (Microsoft) Building scalable cloud systems with great performance using Azure Cache for Redis (Zimmergren) Caching Best Practices (Microsoft) Cloud D...

010 - Thoughts about Azure Security Center essentials 25.12.2019

Azure Security Center overview   Pricing   Microsoft Secure Score   Identity Governance   Azure Advisor  

009 - Thinking about remote access options for VMs 18.12.2019

Tag along for this episode where we're talking about remote access options for VMs, and the joys of traveling around the world to talk about Azure.   Show notes: Tiago Cost ( Twitter , Linkedin ) Tiago's courses on Linkedin Learning:  Scaling Applications with Microsoft Azure   Developing Long-Running Tasks with Microsoft Azure   Azure for Developers: Implementing and Developing Functions   Azure...

008 - Our favorite tools for Azure professionals and developers 11.12.2019

Tag along for this episode where we're talking about the tools we like with Azure, and what happens when you accidentally delete a Web App in production.   Show notes: Azurespeed.com and fast.com Azure Heatmap Azure Pricing Calculator Azure CLI  Curl Postman & Fiddler Screenshotting: Greenshot / SnagIt / Windows 10 Windows Terminal Resources.azure.com Visual Studio Code + PowerShell extension...

007 - Thoughts on how to get started with Azure development 04.12.2019

In this episode we dive into a discussion around developing on Azure. Whether you're just getting started, or a seasoned developer, we'll take a look at what's involved when you want to start building solutions on Azure.   Tag along for this episode where we're reflecting a bit on what's essential in developing solutions on Azure! Show links: Visual Studio Online Azure Pricing Calculator  How Azur...

006 - Reflections on Azure Logic Apps 27.11.2019

In this episode we dive into a discussion around Logic Apps. What are they, what differs Logic Apps from things like Flow or Azure Functions? When do you use what? Do you know the costs involved? What about recurring Logic Apps and the involved cost? … and what about custom code in my Logic Apps? Links: Automating tasks with Logic Apps Logic Apps pricing model Short (28 min) intro to building solu...

005 - Talking about how to master Microsoft Azure certifications 20.11.2019

Tobias Zimmergren and Jussi Roine talks about Microsoft Azure Certifications, and different angles on if they are still important, what the experience is today versus in the past, differences between beta- and released exams and a lot more.     Links: Role-Based Certification Exams (Microsoft) How to prepare and succeed with exams (Jussi Roine)

004 - Interesting news from the Microsoft Ignite keynotes 13.11.2019

Project Cortex. Azure Synapse. Democratizing AI. Entitlement Management. A lot of announcements took place during the Microsoft Ignite 2019 week in Orlando, and we're digesting some of our favorite ones in this episode. Show links: Azure Security Center updates Adding TLS certs for App Service Cloud Adoption Framework Pre-registration for Ignite 2020 Jussi's new book: Azure Governance Project Cort...

003 - Let's dive into the latest Microsoft Azure announcements! 06.11.2019

Microsoft recently announced a plethora of news on Microsoft technologies. During Microsoft Ignite event, Microsoft made quite a lot of new announcements around Azure and the Microsoft cloud offerings. In this episode we dive into some of our favorite announcements. Here's links to some of the things we talked about: Azure Cost Management for Cloud Solution Partners Azure Internet Analyzer Preview...

002 - Big technology conferences, to go or not to go? 30.10.2019

Recommended conferences Microsoft Azure + AI Conf   Microsoft Ignite   Microsoft Ignite "The Tour"   Microsoft BUILD   Microsoft Inspire   Microsoft Envision "The Tour"   European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference   European Collaboration Summit   European Cloud Summit  

001 - Let's talk about Azure Key Vault 22.10.2019

Welcome to the Ctrl Alt Azure podcast. This is the very first episode, where Tobias Zimmergren and Jussi Roine dives into the realm of Azure Key Vault.  Links from the recording: Azure Key Vault Overview (Microsoft) Who accessed my Azure Key Vault (Tobias Zimmergren) Using Key Vault Secrets from your Azure DevOps pipelines (Tobias Zimmergren) Microsoft Azure AZ-500 Exam (Microsoft) Mastering Azure...

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