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Kristopher Turner

Kristopher Turner

A Bearded Country Cloud Boy Loving Microsoft Technologies

Waco, Texas, United States

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I am a father of 3 awesome boys, husband to one sexy homesteading mamma, and lover of Microsoft Technologies. I am a Technology Product Architect at TierPoint and an Azure Microsoft MVP living in central Texas. #Azure #AzureStack #AzureStackHub #AzureStackEdge #AzureStackHCI #AzureArc #CountryCloudBoy

Area of Expertise

  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • Azure Stack
  • Azure IaaS
  • Azure Monitor
  • Azure Update Management
  • Azure Configuration Management
  • Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS)
  • Azure Stack HCI
  • Azure Stack Edge
  • Azure Stack Hub
  • Azure Arc
  • Microsoft Defender for Cloud
  • Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
  • Azure Site Recovery (ASR)
  • Azure Migration

IaaS On Azure Stack: Yes it is a valid platform?

Join us as we demo and discus real world examples of using Azure Stack as a valid IaaS solution. We will talk about lifting and shifting to the cloud, Infrastructure as Code, and more. Using Azure services like Update Management, Azure Monitor, Azure Automation, and more to run the full power of the cloud on premises.

It's time to give Kubernetes on Azure Stack a TRY!

Microsoft has released Kubernetes (K8s) for Azure Stack (AzS). K8s can be used to run and orchestrate your Docker containers on hybrid cloud. In this session we will go into reasons why in the world you would run Kubernetes and Containers on Azure Stack. In this session we also will go on the journey of deploying the ACS-Engine based Kubernetes ARM template to your AzS and run your containers. This session will be your guide so you can walk away and start running containers in your AzS instance today!

Hybrid Cloud: Extending Azure Into Your Data Center With Azure Stack.

Using SQL Server 2019 Always On Availability Groups deployed on an Azure Stack Kubernetes Cluster, we will design and deploy applications across Azure and Azure stack to show the best of what both Azure and Azure Stack have to offer. We will have a demo heavy session showing various Hybrid solutions that can fulfil various Hybrid Cloud Use cases we currently see in the enterprise today.

Securing Your Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Systems Using Azure Arc

How to use Azure Arc to secure you multi cloud and on-premises workloads. Demos and discussions about using Azure management tools such as update management, azure policy and more to provide governance and security including defender for cloud and Microsoft sentinel.

Manage permissions of any identity, across any cloud, with one unified platform

Are you interested in what Entra Permissions Management can do? This session goes beyond the onboarding of Azure and Google Cloud Authorizations systems (Subscriptions and Projects). This session we will go deeper into how to analyze the data collected and move into how to create reports, run audits, and even allowing Entra Permissions Management to automate some of the remediation tasks.

Azure Site Recovery. Don’t recover your resume but recover your servers.

This demo-rich presentation will dive into Azure Site Recovery. We will discuss some real-world examples, how to deploy ASR, how to configure your environment to failover to Azure, how to failover from Azure to Azure, and most importantly how to fallback if needed.

Can you replace on premise tools like SCOM and ConfigMgr with cloud solutions?

This session will allow for discussion and demos around cloud solutions to help you move your in premises management tools into the cloud. Azure Arc, Azure Update Management, Server and Client deployments from the cloud, and more.

Entra Permissions Management, what is it and do I need it?

Let’s talk Entra Permissions Management a solution in the Entra family of security and identity products. Demos and open discussion as we dive into this great tool to help manage permission across multiple clouds

The 12 Days of Azure Arc-mas

Azure Arc provides a consistent management experience, bringing Azure services to infrastructure across multi-cloud, on-premises, and edge. Just like the 12 days of Christmas give us unique and memorable gifts, Azure Arc delivers a suite of gifts to your IT management needs.

Deploy Kubernetes on Azure Stack

This will be a demo rich session on how to deploy Kubernetes on Azure Stack. Will visit some of the differences between K8s on Azure Stack vs Azure. Also some basic management of the newly deployed K8s cluster.

Managing Azure Stack VM's with Azure Update Management and Configuration Management

With the new Azure Update and Configuration Management extension for Azure Stack you can now manage your Azure Stack VM's from within Azure's Update Management and Configuration Management. This will be a quick demo on how to install the extension on a single Azure Stack VM or deploy the extension using an ARM template to multiple Azure Stack VM's. As well as a demo of how to update your Azure Stack VM's, monitor changes, and get inventory from within the Update Management and Configuration Management tools in Azure.

Beyond the Cloud | Azure Stack Edge

This session will dive into Azure Stack Edge, an AI-enabled edge computing device with network data transfer capabilities. We will explore the use cases for "just-enough-compute" at the edge and demonstrate how to configure compute and storage on Azure Stack Edge.

Azure Stack Experts Panel

Join this global list of Azure Stack Experts for an open question and answer session as we discuss real world scenarios.

Whales, Helmsman, and the Borg! Oh my! Kubernetes in Azure and Azure Stack!

New to Kubernetes? Looking to move small to large enterprises to containers? Learn about Kubernetes on many platforms running both on Azure and Azure Stack. From Pivotal’s PKS to AKS, find out how to have a successful experience with Kubernetes.

Building Cloud Native Hybrid Apps with Azure (1.Stack)

In this session, we will explore how Microsoft Cloud can provide edge compute for developing intelligent apps. We will further discuss edge and disconnected scenarios with Microsoft Azure & Azure Stack. Join us to experience a live demo of extending your cloud native app strategy to from Azure to Azure Stack.

MMSMOA

May 2023 Bloomington, Minnesota, United States

DFWSMUG April 2023 User group Sessionize Event

April 2023 Dallas, Texas, United States

HASMUG - 2304 - Security Edition Sessionize Event

April 2023 Houston, Texas, United States

Festive Tech Calendar 2022 Sessionize Event

December 2022

Experts Live Europe 2019 Sessionize Event

November 2019 Prague, Czechia

MVPDays Azure Day Online Sessionize Event

May 2019 Calgary, Canada

MVPDays Online November 2018 Sessionize Event

November 2018 Calgary, Canada

Kristopher Turner

A Bearded Country Cloud Boy Loving Microsoft Technologies

Waco, Texas, United States

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