{"id":1926,"date":"2014-12-02T09:49:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T05:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/?p=1926"},"modified":"2014-12-02T09:52:25","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T05:52:25","slug":"azure-iaas-for-it-pros-online-event-levelupazure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/windows\/azure-iaas-for-it-pros-online-event-levelupazure\/","title":{"rendered":"Azure IaaS for IT Pros Online Event #LevelUpAzure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I attended the <a href=\"http:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Events\/Microsoft-Azure\/Level-Up-Azure-IaaS-for-IT-Pros?WT.mc_id=11098-iaas-for-it-pros-event\" target=\"_blank\">Azure Iaas for IT Pros online event<\/a> yesterday. It&#8217;s a four day event, day one was great! A good intro to Azure and what it can do. While I have been very curious about Azure I have also been lazy (and got too many other things going on) to actually play with Azure or learn more about it. So this felt like a good way to get up to speed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Azure looks great, of course! One thing that struck me during the sessions was how all the speakers constantly call out to Linux and Open Source technologies. That&#8217;s just amazing considering how just a few years away Microsoft was so anti-Open Source. They kept showing Ubuntu VMs as something you can deploy on Azure, and did you know you can manage Azure (or maybe the Windows\/ Linux VMs in it, I am not sure) using Chef and Puppet?! Wow! That&#8217;s just cool. In fact the sessions on day 3 are totally Linux\/ Open Source oriented &#8211; on how to use Chef and Puppet, how to use Docker, and how to deploy Linux. Nice! :)<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ll play around a bit with Azure today just to get the hang of it. I think I didn&#8217;t <em>appreciate<\/em> some of the stuff they presented because I haven&#8217;t worked with it and so wasn&#8217;t sure how it all fit together\/ affected an IT pro like me.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended the Azure Iaas for IT Pros online event yesterday. It&#8217;s a four day event, day one was great! A good intro to Azure and what it can do. While I have been very curious about Azure I have also been lazy (and got too many other things going on) to actually play with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/windows\/azure-iaas-for-it-pros-online-event-levelupazure\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Azure IaaS for IT Pros Online Event #LevelUpAzure<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[183,85],"tags":[383,384,385,283],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}