Evgeny Borzenin
Azure Solutions Architect Expert | Senior Consultant at Konsulentselskapet Ensō AS
Oslo, Norway
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I am an Azure Solutions Architect Expert with over 30 years of experience spanning development, architecture, and cloud infrastructure.
My career started with building complex distributed systems in the financial sector, and for the past decade I have focused on Azure, DevOps, and Infrastructure as Code.
I am particularly passionate about automation, immutable infrastructure, and building cloud platforms that are predictable, repeatable, and resilient by design.
As a Senior Consultant at Konsulentselskapet Ensō AS, I work at the intersection of development and infrastructure — helping teams modernize safely and sustainably.
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Improving Network Observability with Azure Connection Monitor
Need better visibility into your cloud and hybrid networks—without setting up a complex observability stack? This lightning talk shows you how Azure Connection Monitor can help you monitor connectivity, detect issues, and respond to network failures before they hit your SLAs. Fast, practical, and demo-focused.
Practical Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Kubernetes became quite popular recently especially with Kubernetes as Service options available from most of the cloud providers. Let's take Azure as an example. Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) is a very powerful tool. And as always with great power comes great responsibility. In case with AKS it's operational responsibility.
Way too often I see organizations start adopting AKS without full understanding of what it actually takes to maintain AKS clusters in production.
What networking model should you choose and how do you structure your node pools?
How do you provision your cluster and what is your cluster upgrade strategy?
Should you use GitOps as cluster configuration and applications deployment strategy?
How should you monitor your cluster and applications health?
These are just some of the questions you need to have clear answers to before you allow your production workloads to be deployed to AKS.
This workshop is structured as a combination of theoretical blocks and hands-on labs covering different aspects of working with AKS including
* Kubernetes 101
* provisioning options available for AKS
* networking in AKS
* access and identity
* working with storage
* scaling options in AKS
* monitoring options in AKS
* storage and secrets
* GitOps
Throughout the workshop, we will look at best practices for security, operations and development.
Prerequisites:
Some experience working with Azure, Kubernetes and git is desirable. Some development experience building and deploying code with dotNet (C#) is also useful, but not mandatory.
Implement immutable infrastructure on Azure with ARM templates
There are quite a few tools on the market that help you implement Azure infrastructure as code. Most likely you heard about Terraform and Pulumi at the conferences and read a bunch of blog posts about how awesome and easy to use they are (and they are actually awesome and easy to use). But what if, for whatever reason, you can't use these tools and the only option available for you is ARM templates?
It’s not a secret that ARM templates are really powerful, but not that easy to work with. This is especially the case if you have complex infrastructure with multiple environments that may have some differences between each other.
At this workshop I will share my experience and tips & tricks on how to implement Azure infrastructure with ARM templates. During the first part of the workshop, you will learn the basics of ARM templates, how to structure them, when and how to use variables and parameters, how to use template functions to simplify multi-environment configuration. I will show you some really useful VS code plug-ins that will dramatically improve your ARM templates development experience.
During the second part of the workshop, you will use the knowledge and experience your learned from the first part and will design and implement simple immutable infrastructure using ARM templates with set of Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for automated blue/green provisioning and deployment. You will learn what is the difference between classic and YAML based pipelines and why you shouldn't use Azure resource group deployment task at your pipelines.
This workshop is rated level 200-300 with a target audience of developers and architects working with Azure infrastructure.
Immutable Infrastructure on Azure
When you design your infrastructure provisioning model, you need to choose whether you want your infrastructure to be mutable or immutable.
In a traditional mutable infrastructure, infra components are incrementally updated and modified in place. An immutable infrastructure is another paradigm in which infrastructure components are never modified after they are provisioned.
Join me at my session where I will show you how to model a blue-green infrastructure provisioning process. You will learn what tools and options are available at the market, how to structure resource groups and how to use Traffic Manager or Azure Front Door to implement canary testing of your services under new infrastructure with “close to 0” down time.
This talk is rated level 200-300 with a target audience of developers and architects working with Azure infrastructure. You will hear a lot about automation, infrastructure as code and will learn what load-balancing options are available on Azure.
Are you ready for Disaster?
Azure is awesome! You provision your infrastructure, deploy your system and everything runs smoothly until one day, when suddenly there is an outage at one of the Azure services, data centers or regions.
This session will introduce you to the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery concepts. You will learn what availability requirements are, how to design for failure, what kind of deployment topologies and strategies exist and what Disaster Recovery options are available on Azure.
This talk is rated level 200-300 with a target audience of developers and architects. Even though the main focus is on Azure, some of the principles and techniques are still applicable for those of you who are hosting your systems on-premises or use other cloud providers.
The presentation advocates the use of automation, immutable infrastructure as code and DevOps.
Workshop: Working with Azure Virtual Network Manager
This is level 100 workshop that covers different aspects of working with Azure Virtual Network Manager (AVNM) where you will learn what AVNM is and:
- How to segment your virtual networks with Network Groups
- How to implement hub-and-spoke and mesh network topology with AVNM
- How to secure your virtual networks using AVNM rule-set
- How to route spoke-to-spoke traffic via Azure Firewall
- How to manage the IP addresses of your virtual networks using AVNM IP Address Management (IPAM).
and much more...
Workshop is organized as a combination of theoretical blocks with slides and hand-on labs. Estimated time for workshop completion is 3 hours.
Building Secure Azure Networks with Azure Firewall (Hands-On Workshop)
This Beginner/Intermediate (level 200) hands-on workshop explores practical aspects of designing, deploying, and operating Azure Firewall in real-world environments. By the end of the two days, participants will gain a solid understanding of Azure Firewall capabilities, learn how to implement secure, scalable network architectures using proven design patterns and will have the knowledge and practical experience required to confidently design, deploy, and operate Azure Firewall in production environments.
The workshop begins with an overview of Azure Firewall, its core features, and common enterprise use cases. From there, attendees will deploy and configure Azure Firewall in a hub-and-spoke topology, learning how to integrate it into existing Azure networking designs.
A significant focus is placed on Azure Firewall Policy, its structure, rule processing logic, and best practices for organizing and managing policies at scale. Participants will create and manage both Network and Application rules, gaining clarity on rule evaluation, prioritization, and common configuration pitfalls.
Operational excellence is also covered in depth. The workshop examines SNAT port exhaustion, its causes, impact on workloads, and effective mitigation strategies. Finally, attendees will learn how to monitor Azure Firewall using logs and metrics, enabling visibility, troubleshooting, and proactive performance management.
The Azure Network Detective: Advanced Troubleshooting Techniques
This Beginner/Intermediate (level 200), two-day hands-on workshop focuses on the practical aspects of troubleshooting Azure networking in real-world environments. By the end of this workshop, participants will have a practical toolkit of techniques and best practices to troubleshoot Azure networking issues efficiently in real-world scenarioos.
Through guided labs and real scenarios, participants will explore how to use VNet Flow Logs to gain network visibility, leverage Azure Network Watcher toolset for effective diagnostics, and identify outbound connectivity problems. We will break down routing challenges, explain how to validate effective routes, and troubleshoot misconfigurations across VNets, peering, and hybrid connections.
Participants will also learn how to monitor network performance, collect and interpret diagnostic logs, capture and analyze packets, and understand traffic behavior across Azure networking components. The workshop emphasizes structured troubleshooting methodology, helping to move from symptoms to root cause with confidence.
Evgeny Borzenin
Azure Solutions Architect Expert | Senior Consultant at Konsulentselskapet Ensō AS
Oslo, Norway
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