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
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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 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
Size flexibility for Azure Reserved Instances
A while ago now I covered Azure’s Reserved Instance (RI) feature and how its use can dramatically reduce the TCO for your Azure VMs. Well this useful feature just got even better! Microsoft are introducing ‘size flexibility for Azure Reserved Instances’ With traditional RI’s you chose the VM instance size (D4s_v3 for example) and how … Continue reading Size flexibility for Azure Reserved Instances
Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates
If you would like to start deploying and configuring your environment via code but not sure where to start, or how to structure and write a JSON template then you’re in luck! Microsoft has a whole host of Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates on Github for you to explore and use as you need. And … Continue reading Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates
ASR from Google Cloud Platform to Azure
Enabling multi-cloud fail-over of VMs (I’m a big fan of multi-cloud and not having an 'OR' mindset - Azure OR GCP, Azure OR AWS) is much easier than you may think, especially when one of the cloud environments you’re using is Azure. ASR (Azure Site Recovery), a Microsoft Azure service that orchestrates and manages disaster … Continue reading ASR from Google Cloud Platform to Azure
Northern Azure User Group – June 2018
NAUG (Northern Azure User Group) recently held its first event in Manchester (Kindly hosted by the Co-op) with a couple of great sessions on ‘Co-op’s journey to the cloud’ and a session by Marcus Robinson from Microsoft on ‘Bring your own containers’. It was great to see so many faces there, both new and old. … Continue reading Northern Azure User Group – June 2018
New storage options in Azure
Microsoft announced a new SSD option for their IaaS virtual machines - Standard SSD. Microsoft have offered two disk options for a long time now; standard SSD a great option for storage needs of very low cost, infrequent access but would not be recommended for production environments. The second option was their premium SSD which … Continue reading New storage options in Azure
AWS Spot Instances
Spot Instances on AWS are a great way to massively reduce the compute costs for your IaaS environment (AWS boasts of up to a 90% reduction in cost) not bad! So what’s the catch? Well that depends on the type of workload you’re planning to deploy to spot instances. When creating an On-Demand workload in … Continue reading AWS Spot Instances
