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!
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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
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
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
Ultra SSD Disks in Azure
It was only a month or so ago that I was writing about the new ‘Standard SSD’ offering in Azure, a disk that offers the same reliable availability and improved latency of the Premium SSD disk but kept the same IOPS and throughput as a standard HHD. Well, with the plethora of announcements coming out … Continue reading Ultra SSD Disks in Azure
Power Management in Azure
Turning your unused VMs off has long been a cost saver, you only pay for the storage when the VM is turned off and not for the running cost of the VM itself. Microsoft has for a while had the ability to shutdown the VM on a schedule but offered no real solution on how … Continue reading Power Management in Azure
