Azure Kung Fu Toolkit
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Azure CLI
The Azure CLI is a cross-platform, command-line tool that allows users to connect to Azure and execute administrative commands on Azure resources. It is designed to help users work quickly with Azure, with an emphasis on automation. The CLI is available across Azure services, and can be installed on Windows, macOS, or Linux. It can also be run in Azure Cloud Shell or used in within a Docker container.
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Azure CLI: Manage Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service (DPS)
One of the services within Microsoft Azure for building out IoT solutions is the Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service (DPS). Just as with other…
Az Kung Fu VM – Master Tools for Azure Administrators
Have you ever spent hours building a machine to use as an admin workstation for Azure? What about installing the Windows Subsystem for Linux? Well,…
Azure CLI Kung-Fu Tips and Tricks
The last week has been a blur because I didn’t sleep. I spent days helping a client restore every single VM that had running in…
Azure CLI: Create Azure IoT Hub
It’s really easy to provision an instance of Azure IoT Hub using the Azure Portal. However, there are times when you need to automate the…
Azure CLI: List and Set Azure Subscription
To list and set the Azure Subscription to run Azure CLI commands against is an important step in command-line scripting. To do this, there are…
Securing Azure Virtual Machines using Network Security Groups (NSGs)
Security! Security! This is top of mind for everyone these days and Azure has many security features. Today we are going to explore the world…
Azure CLI: Convert VM to Managed Disks
Traditionally, Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) would use an Azure Storage Account to store the VM Disk Images for the VM. This required explicit management of…
Introducing the Azure Cloud Shell
The Azure Cloud Shell has been out for some time now, as an embedded Bash and PowerShell command-line shell / terminal within the Azure Portal.…
Microsoft Azure IoT Extension for Azure CLI 2.0
Microsoft has been investing heavily in the pretty much every aspect of Microsoft Azure, and the IoT (Internet of Things) space is not being left…
Azure CLI: Quickly Start / Stop ALL VMs
You can easily Start and Stop Virtual Machines (VMs) through the Azure Portal. Previously, I’ve written about the importance of Stopping unused VMs to save money…
Azure CLI 2.0: Make Bash Output More Readable
It can be extremely useful to use the Azure CLI to manage / manipulate your Azure resources from the command-line. However, many of the commands…
Azure CLI 2.0: Reset / Change Azure VM Password
It’s very easy to spin up a Virtual Machine (VM) in Microsoft Azure. You can do it through the Azure Portal or with scripting tools…
Install Azure CLI on macOS
The Azure CLI is the cross-platform, command-line tool for managing and automating cloud resources in Microsoft Azure. The tool is supported across macOS, Linux, Windows,…
Azure CLI: Generate SAS Token for Blob in Azure Storage
Azure Storage is a cloud service at the very center of Microsoft Azure. It provides the foundations for storing data in many services and systems…
Azure CLI: Reset Azure SQL Database Password
The Azure SQL Database service allows you to set an Admin login and password when you provision a database server in the service. However, if…
Azure CLI: Create and Manage Resource Groups
All cloud resources created / provisioned in Microsoft Azure need to be associated with Resource Groups. This is one of the basic features of the…
Azure CLI 1.0 vs 2.0 Compared, Installation and Usage
The Azure CLI is the cross-platform, command-line tool for managing resources in Microsoft Azure. Microsoft recently released the Azure CLI 2.0 and the commands start…
Azure Cloud Shell with Azure CLI inside Azure Portal
Here’s a short introduction to the Azure Cloud Shell; a new feature recently released into the Microsoft Azure Portal as part of the many announcements…
What is Azure Resource Manager?
In the early days of Microsoft Azure the Portal was the primary tool to go in and configure your cloud components. After some time the…