Naming conventions isn’t the sexiest topic to be blogging about, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t important. If you’ve worked in IT for any length of time then you will likely understand the importance of naming conventions. Resources named in a consistent and meaningful way can make life a lot easier. This is just as important in Azure. And if you are anything like me, you will understand the rage induced when someone creates ‘Daves WebApp’ in a production…

Tags are a really simple feature in Azure, and are amazingly useful. If you’ve spent any time in the portal then you will probably have noticed them. They are essentially a set of key value pairs that are assigned to a resource to ‘tag’ them in some way. In this post we are going to look at how to use tags and how they can be applied.