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Azure: Context is king
27 Jun 2021 · 2 min read · azure · login

Azure: Context is king

Image by mohammad takhsh on Unsplash Intro A quick post just to get me back into the routine, and to cover off an issue that I encountered recently, and how to resolve it. The problem I hadn’t done anything in …

31 Mar 2020 · 3 min read · new-blog · cloudflare

Handle website redirects with Cloudflare page rules

In my last post, I mentioned that I’d hit a little snag when I was migrating my live site over to my new architecture. When I built my test site it always used a subdomain (beta.cirriustech.co.uk) so I never had …

27 Mar 2020 · 1 min read · new-blog · Hugo

New site now live!

Much later than planned, I’ve completed the cutover to my new Hugo static site in production, as written about in my last post. A number of factors delayed it. Mostly private, which I won’t go into here, but …

17 Jan 2020 · 1 min read · new-blog · static-websites

Say Hello World to Hugo!

In my recent posts, I spent a lot of time talking about Hugo and Static Websites in Azure. I’ve now finished converting the content from this existing blog over to Hugo, underpinned by: Azure Static Websites Azure …

Create an Azure Static Website in seconds with Azure CLI
29 Dec 2019 · 3 min read · azure · azure-cli

Create an Azure Static Website in seconds with Azure CLI

Image by Cloudypixel on Unsplash In my last post. I demonstrated how to create a static website using the Azure Portal. However, many of those steps are much quicker using the Azure CLI. For today’s post, …

Serverless Static Websites in Azure for Pennies
24 Dec 2019 · 17 min read · azure · hugo

Serverless Static Websites in Azure for Pennies

Image by Max Bender on Unsplash Intro As you may or may not be aware, Gregor Suttie and Richard Hooper (Pixel Robots) came up with the awesome idea for Azure Advent Calendar which you can follow via the …