Microsoft Azure offers a variety of compute services in the cloud. This includes Virtual Machines, Azure App Service, Azure Functions, and more!
When moving or duplicating Azure Virtual Machines (VMs), you may encounter an issue where the VM’s disk is offline due to a signature collision. This commonly happens when: Cloning disk images (using dd, azcopy, or exporting VHDs). Creating a new VM from a disk...
Azure Functions is a powerful serverless compute service that enables organizations to build event-driven applications with minimal infrastructure management. While its scalability and flexibility make it an attractive choice for modern cloud applications, managing...
Migrating an Azure Virtual Machine (VM) from one Azure Region to another can be necessary for several reasons, including disaster recovery, optimizing performance, or reducing latency. While Azure provides various options for replication and failover, one of the most...
Building Microservice and Serverless architectures demand different design patterns to be used that other traditional application architectures....
In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud computing, performance and security stand as the cornerstones of an exceptional user experience. Recognizing...
HashiCorp Terraform is great for deploying any Microsoft Azure resource, and the same applies to deploying serverless compute with Azure Function...
There are many reasons to create a Linux Virtual Machine (VM) in Azure; like hosting a web server, database, or many other uses for VMs. It's...
The General Purpose Dpsv5 and Dplsv5 and Memory Optimized Epsv5 pricing tiers for Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) brings the ability to host...
I recently worked on a project where I was required to write an Azure Function that would watch for newly stored files in Azure Blob Storage, copy...
Azure Functions is the Serverless compute option within the Microsoft Azure platform. One of the biggest benefits of Azure Functions, and Serverless...
A powerful way to write and build Azure Functions is to use C# Script. This allows you to easily write function directly within the Azure Portal, or...
I have been working in technology since 1995. My first real job was working for Citibank Mortgage as a Novell Netware administrator. As a new member...
Earlier this year I wrote a few new articles for the Azure Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF). One of the docs I was excited about is about Azure...
Security and Privacy are key in todays digital first world. Setting up a VPN with OpenVPN in Microsoft Azure offers a fairly simple method to add an...
Did you know that you can have significant savings on Dev/Test environments in Azure? I'm working with the Azure Dev/Test team on a project right...
For the last few years, Microsoft has stated during event keynotes and in other places that Linux is a rapidly growing operating system (OS) being...
In the current time of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic many more people are working and meeting online. Many of those people have moved to using...
There are 2 options to "shutdown" a Virtual Machine (VM) running in Microsoft Azure. Each of the two methods have different affects on the cost of...
The AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator certification exam tests and validates your expertise as an Azure Administrator. Candidates should also...
In this hands-on lab, you will migrate an on-premises based help desk application called OsTicket, to Azure. This will be a two-phase project to...
Automate Everything. That’s my new mantra, and it should be yours... Like many of you, I’m an infrastructure guy and grew up with the crutches of...