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Azure CLI

Azure CLI Kung-Fu Tips and Tricks

by Dan Patrick | Jan 30, 2020

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 (about...

Azure CLI: Create Azure IoT Hub

by Chris Pietschmann | Dec 19, 2019

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 task. You...

Azure CLI: List and Set Azure Subscription

by Chris Pietschmann | Dec 13, 2019

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 a...

Apply Tags to all of your Azure Resources

by Dan Patrick | Nov 29, 2018

Today I'm doing an Azure Migration and consolidation for a client and they wanted to tag everything within the existing Resource Group where is it...

Securing Azure Virtual Machines using Network Security Groups (NSGs)

by Dan Patrick | Apr 3, 2018

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

by Chris Pietschmann | Mar 14, 2018

Traditionally, Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) would use an Azure Storage Account to store the VM Disk Images for the VM. This required explicit...

Introducing the Azure Cloud Shell

by Chris Pietschmann | Feb 7, 2018

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. It...

Azure CLI: Quickly Start / Stop ALL VMs

by Chris Pietschmann | Jun 7, 2017

You can easily Start and Stop Virtual Machines (VMs) through the Azure Portal. Previously, I've written about the importance of Stopping unused...

Azure CLI 2.0: Make Bash Output More Readable

by Chris Pietschmann | Jun 1, 2017

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

by Chris Pietschmann | May 31, 2017

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 such as the...

Install Azure CLI on macOS

by Chris Pietschmann | May 25, 2017

The Azure CLI is the cross-platform, command-line tool for managing and automating cloud resources in Microsoft Azure. The tool is supported across...

Azure CLI: Generate SAS Token for Blob in Azure Storage

by Chris Pietschmann | May 23, 2017

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

by Chris Pietschmann | May 18, 2017

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 you...

Azure CLI: Create and Manage Resource Groups

by Chris Pietschmann | May 17, 2017

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

by Chris Pietschmann | May 16, 2017

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...

Azure Cloud Shell with Azure CLI inside Azure Portal

by Chris Pietschmann | May 11, 2017

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...

What is Azure Resource Manager?

by Chris Pietschmann | Apr 27, 2016

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 Azure Service...