Ctrl+Alt+Azure Podcast

Together with Jussi Roine, I co-founded and am the co-host of the Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast.

📰 How we planned and launched a Podcast - the technical story

Here's a list of all episodes we ever launched.

March 2023

Episode 175 - Azure Landing Zones with Dom Allen

February 2023

Episode 174 - Preparing for the SC-900 Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals certification

February 2023

Episode 173 - Understanding Power Platform for Azure professionals with Antti Pajunen

February 2023

Episode 172 - Azure Updates

February 2023

Episode 171 - Azure Files with Azure AD Kerberos

January 2023

Episode 170 - Can we ignore certificates and PKI in cloud era? With Mika Seitsonen

January 2023

Episode 169 - What is the EU Data Boundary?

January 2023

Episode 168 - A look at Microsoft Entra Verified ID

January 2023

Episode 167 - Azure Updates

December 2022

Episode 166 - Let's talk about Defender for DevOps

December 2022

Episode 165 - Running a Signal Proxy on Azure

December 2022

Episode 164 - Get certified as a Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator (SC-300)

December 2022

Episode 163 - Azure Updates

November 2022

Episode 162 - Lessons learned on Zero Trust in the past year

November 2022

Episode 161 - Design for sustainability with the Azure Well-Architected Framework

November 2022

Episode 160 - Azure Updates

November 2022

Episode 159 - Celebrating 3 years of Ctrl+Alt+Azure

November 2022

Episode 158 - Exporting data from Dataverse to Azure

October 2022

Episode 157 - Azure Updates

October 2022

Episode 156 - Top 3 favorite announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2022

October 2022

Episode 155 - Building Mission-Critical workloads on Azure with Martin Simecek

October 2022

Episode 154 - Expectations on Microsoft Ignite 2022

September 2022

Episode 153 - An early look at Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence

September 2022

Episode 152 - A look at Ampere Altra Arm-based Virtual Machines

September 2022

Episode 151 - Back to basics: Securing Azure in 3 steps

September 2022

Episode 150 - Azure Updates

August 2022

Episode 149 - Developing in the cloud with Microsoft Dev Box

August 2022

Episode 148 - Tackling DDoS attacks in Azure

August 2022

Episode 147 - What is the new Azure Developer CLI?

August 2022

Episode 146 - A look at Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management

August 2022

Episode 145 - Azure Updates

July 2022

Episode 144 - A look at the Power Platform API and Azure AD Service Principals

July 2022

Episode 143 - Azure Updates

July 2022

Episode 142 - Building Azure at home with Azure Stack Edge

July 2022

Episode 141 - Adventures in data: Integrating PostgreSQL with Azure Data Lake

June 2022

Episode 140 - Reliability in the Azure Well-Architected Framework

June 2022

Episode 139 - Azure Updates

June 2022

Episode 138 - F5 NGINX on Azure - what, why and how?

June 2022

Episode 137 - Our personal favorites from Microsoft BUILD 2022

June 2022

Episode 136 - Operational Excellence in the Azure Well-Architected Framework

May 2022

Episode 135 - Managed Grafana in Azure

May 2022

Episode 134 - Compliance with Microsoft Purview

May 2022

Episode 133 - Performance Efficiency in the Azure Well-Architected Framework

May 2022

Episode 132 - Microsoft Partner program updates for Azure

April 2022

Episode 131 - Azure Updates

April 2022

Episode 130 - Structured Azure Functions deployments and monitoring with Andrew Connell

April 2022

Episode 129 - Azure Reservations with Tamás Gémesi

April 2022

Episode 128 - Preparing for the new Cybersecurity Architect (SC-100) certification

March 2022

Episode 127 - Joiners, Movers and Leavers in Azure AD

March 2022

Episode 126 - The latest on WordPress on Azure

March 2022

Episode 125 - Azure Updates

March 2022

Episode 124 - SFTP with Azure Storage

March 2022

Episode 123 - The latest on Azure Bastion

February 2022

Episode 122 - Microsoft Defender for Cloud: Secure Score

February 2022

Episode 121 - Cost Optimization in the Azure Well-Architected Framework

February 2022

Episode 120 - Azure Updates

February 2022

Episode 119 - Using Azure IoT Central to control your coffee maker

January 2022

Episode 118 - Backing up PostgreSQL databases in Azure

January 2022

Episode 117 - Make sure you have a break-glass admin account

January 2022

Episode 116 - Azure Updates

January 2022

Episode 115 - We took the Azure Load Testing service for a spin

December 2021

Episode 114 - Options for running containers in Azure

December 2021

Episode 113 - Trust no-one! A look at Zero Trust in 2022

December 2021

Episode 112 - Azure Updates

December 2021

Episode 111 - How do you choose the correct Azure compute service?

December 2021

Episode 110 - Azure in Sweden

November 2021

Episode 109 - Azure Policy as Code with Jesse Loudon

November 2021

Episode 108 - Controlled havoc with the Azure Chaos Studio

November 2021

Episode 107 - Azure Updates

November 2021

Episode 106 - Digesting announcements from Microsoft Ignite in November 2021

October 2021

Episode 105 - Expectations on Microsoft Ignite Fall 2021

October 2021

Episode 104 - Become an Azure Architect with the new AZ-305 certification

October 2021

Episode 103 - Azure Updates

October 2021

Episode 102 - Where do you store your application config data?

September 2021

Episode 101 - Dial into Azure

September 2021

Episode 100 - Celebrating one hundred episodes of the podcast!

September 2021

Episode 099 - Azure Updates

September 2021

Episode 098 - Get certified as a Security Operations Analyst

September 2021

Episode 097 - Durable Functions with Marc Duiker

August 2021

Episode 096 - Moving towards a cloud-only architecture

August 2021

Episode 095 - Azure Updates

August 2021

Episode 094 - Your PC in the cloud with Windows 365

August 2021

Episode 093 - Forgetting your passwords with passwordless

July 2021

Episode 092 - What's up with Application Insights

July 2021

Episode 091 - Azure Updates

July 2021

Episode 090 - Managing virtual machines with Azure Automanage

July 2021

Episode 089 - Azure Disk Encryption for Linux

June 2021

Episode 088 - Azure Updates

June 2021

Episode 087 - Get certified on Azure Security with AZ-500

June 2021

Episode 086 - Exploring Azure Synapse with Vesa Tikkanen

June 2021

Episode 085 - A look at Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes

June 2021

Episode 084 - Creating custom connectors in Azure for Power Platform

May 2021

Episode 083 - Microsoft Build 2021 announcements and news

May 2021

Episode 082 - So, where is my data?

May 2021

Episode 081 - Azure Updates

May 2021

Episode 080 - Exploring Azure Arc with Thomas Maurer

April 2021

Episode 079 - We're talking about Azure Bicep

April 2021

Episode 078 - Azure Updates

April 2021

Episode 077 - Publishing with Azure AD Application Proxy

April 2021

Episode 076 - So you want to become an Azure developer? Get the AZ-204!

March 2021

Episode 075 - Azure spring cleaning

March 2021

Episode 074 - Azure Updates

March 2021

Episode 073 - Security with Microsoft Teams

March 2021

Episode 072 - Ignite recap with Martijn

March 2021

Episode 071 - Briefly chatting about Security Operations in Azure

February 2021

Episode 070 - Expectations on Microsoft Ignite 2021

February 2021

Episode 069 - Printing is still a thing - a look at Universal Print

February 2021

Episode 068 - Azure updates

February 2021

Episode 067 - End-to-end testing with Playwright on Azure

January 2021

Episode 066 - Azure Updates

January 2021

Episode 065 - Design for transient faults in Azure

January 2021

Episode 064 - Getting started with machine learning using Lobe

January 2021

Episode 063 - Azure updates

December 2020

Episode 062 - Finding your way with Azure Maps

December 2020

Episode 061 - Azure updates

December 2020

Episode 060 - FinOps with Azure with Tamás Gémesi

December 2020

Episode 059 - Azure in Space?

December 2020

Episode 058 - Azure Updates

November 2020

Episode 057 - Azure Policy and Azure Key Vault integration

November 2020

Episode 056 - News in Azure, November 2020

November 2020

Episode 055 - A few thoughts on event-based automation with Azure

November 2020

Episode 054 - Linux on Windows with WSL 2

October 2020

Episode 053 - Backups using the new Azure Backup Center

October 2020

Episode 052 - Recommendations if we started working with Azure today!

October 2020

Episode 051 - Digesting announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2020

October 2020

Episode 050 - First look at Azure Communication Services

September 2020

Episode 049 - Security News from Microsoft Ignite September 2020

September 2020

Episode 048 - Azure News in September, Part 1

September 2020

Episode 047 - Managing the crops with Azure FarmBeats

September 2020

Episode 046 - Azure Static Web Apps with Elio Struyf

September 2020

Episode 045 - Azure News in August 2020 - Part 2

August 2020

Episode 044 - Common approaches to building an API in Azure

August 2020

Episode 043 - Azure News in August 2020 - Part 1

August 2020

Episode 042 - Migrate away with Azure Migrate

August 2020

Episode 041 - Optimize your workloads with the Azure Well-Architected Framework

July 2020

Episode 040 - What is DevTest Labs?

July 2020

Episode 039 - Embracing Azure Container Instances

July 2020

Episode 038 - Remote development with Visual Studio Code

July 2020

Episode 037 - Discussing the Chaos Engineering methodology

July 2020

Episode 036 - All things Security with Sami Laiho

June 2020

Episode 035 - Running background jobs in the cloud

June 2020

Episode 034 - Measuring your Developer Velocity

June 2020

Episode 033 - Governance with the Azure Resource Graph

June 2020

Episode 032 - Favorite announcements from Microsoft Build 2020

May 2020

Episode 031 - How we turned a coffee call into a website analytics solution on Azure

May 2020

Episode 030 - Briefly chatting about Azure Front Door

May 2020

Episode 029 - What is Azure Web Application Firewall?

May 2020

Episode 028 - Succeeding with Azure DNS

April 2020

Episode 027 - All things GitHub

April 2020

Episode 026 - Succeeding with Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)

April 2020

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

April 2020

Episode 024 - Azure Governance - the overview

April 2020

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

March 2020

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

March 2020

Episode 021 - Talking about Azure Sentinel with Maarten Goet

March 2020

Episode 020 - Powering your apps with Azure Cognitive Services

March 2020

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

February 2020

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

February 2020

Episode 017 - Planning and designing perimeter security in Azure

February 2020

Episode 016 - Migrating SQL Server databases to Azure SQL

February 2020

Episode 015 - A brief overview of Application Insights

January 2020

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

January 2020

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

January 2020

Episode 012 - Azure IoT Hub and Raspberry Pi

January 2020

Episode 011 - Considerations and Good Practices for Azure Developers

December 2019

Episode 010 - Thoughts about Azure Security Center essentials

December 2019

Episode 009 - Thinking about remote access options for VMs

December 2019

Episode 008 - Our favorite tools for Azure professionals and developers

December 2019

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

November 2019

Episode 006 - Reflections on Azure Logic Apps

November 2019

Episode 005 - Talking about how to master Microsoft Azure certifications

November 2019

Episode 004 - Interesting news from the Microsoft Ignite keynotes

November 2019

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

October 2019

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

October 2019

Episode 001 - Let's talk about Azure Key Vault