The name Winticloud is composed of the name Winti (abbreviation for Winterthur) and Cloud. I had reserved the domain for quite some time, just like that, without any concrete idea what to do with it. At that time, I was still working as a team leader and network/network security engineer, mainly in the physical and virtualized world, employed by a company close to the Swiss government, where the cloud was demonized.
At the beginning of 2019, after a somewhat longer process, it was clear to me that I wanted to move towards the cloud and so I joined my current employer Baggenstos & Co AG at the end of 2019, who was looking for a network engineer for the Microsoft Azure Cloud.
I was thrown in at the deep end and was allowed to set up a worldwide Azure Virtual WAN (vWAN) network with 30 locations around the globe for a customer. But I dedicate a separate article to these experiences, I have spent too many hours on the phone with Microsoft Support to simply mention this in a subordinate clause.
Besides the Virtual WAN there are a lot of new things in Azure for me, but I did not have to give up my network knowledge completely, there are simply a few things to understand if you want to build or operate a network in Azure.
All beginnings are hard...
I used to have to go to noisy data centers to install a VPN gateway, today, thanks to the Azure Cloud, I do this as follows.
$VPNGwUS = New-AzVpnGateway -ResourceGroupName $ResGrObjVpnGwUS -Name ($NamePrefix + "-vpngw-cus1") -VirtualHub $VHubUS -VpnGatewayScaleUnit 1 -Tag $Tags
It’s pretty cool, huh? For the first time as a network engineer I can build a complete Virtual Datacenter from my desk. A dream becomes reality….