For those that haven't yet come across availability zones (they're not available in all regions currently but Microsoft are slowly rolling these out) they offer the next level of protection after availability sets. Where an availability set is an anti-affinity solution - you're instructing Azure to not put VMs in the same availability set into … Continue reading Availability Zones Gothas!
Using a Service Principal
If you're looking to automate and script processes and tasks against your Azure environment you'll soon come across the issue of having to authenticate (which is good!) to your environment making your seamless automation script a little more manual. The solution to this problem is to use a Service Principle (SP) with Role Based Access … Continue reading Using a Service Principal
AZ Cheat Sheet
For those that are new to the Azure CLI there are often a few nuances that can take a little getting used to. I will keep this post up to date as I find things I find useful and to help me remember (I have an awful memory!). The Azire CLI uses the argument--query to … Continue reading AZ Cheat Sheet
Azure Global Bootcamp Agenda
We have it, what everyone has been waiting for, the agenda for this year’s Azure Global Bootcamp happening on April, 27th in Manchester! We are at full capacity but please do join the waitlist if you’re wanting to join us. With over 150 people, 3 Gold sponsors, 10+ presentations over two tracks and interactive sessions, … Continue reading Azure Global Bootcamp Agenda
Release Notes
It's always worth keeping an eye on the change log for any application or tool but especialy with management and scripting tools that you're using every day. The CLI notes can be found here - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/release-notes-azure-cli?view=azure-cli-latest#april-9-2019 The PowerShell AZ Module notes can be found here - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/azure/release-notes-azureps?view=azps-1.7.0 If you're seing any qwerks or things not workin you … Continue reading Release Notes
2019 Azure Global Bootcamp
As we get into 2019 we start to think about this year’s ‘Azure Global Bootcamp’ – a yearly event where Microsoft brings together user groups and communities from around the world in a day of learning around the Microsoft cloud platform. This year’s event is on Saturday April 27th. The Northern Azure User Group (one … Continue reading 2019 Azure Global Bootcamp
Azure Management Groups
As you start to bring more services into Azure, expanding from pre-production and test workloads into the reals of hosting live, production environments and the number of teams and people involved in keeping the environment running grows you’ll want to make sure you have the right policies and governance in place but keeping in mind … Continue reading Azure Management Groups
Azure CLI on MacOS
If, like me you’re a bit of an Apple Fan Boy and prefer to use a Mac / MacBook for your daily machine you’ll want to make sure you get the Azure CLI installed. The CLI is a command-line tool allowing you to manage your Azure resources from code built upon Python. So why CLI … Continue reading Azure CLI on MacOS
Azure Monitor
One of the many announcements from this weeks Ignite 2018 conference (you can found a detailed look at all the Azure announcements here) is the Azure Monitor for VMs. Azure Monitor (currently released in ‘Preview’) will provide an in-depth review of performance, health and even dependencies all in a easy to access view. Azure monitor … Continue reading Azure Monitor
Book of News – Ignite 2018
If like me you’ve been spending all of your time this week just trying to keep on top of the huge number of Azure announcements (never mind all the others) then you may find this - Microsoft’s 'Book of News’ a handy thing to have a look at. A PDF with all the announcements with … Continue reading Book of News – Ignite 2018
