Using Chocolatey with Azure VMs
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…
Azure Compute
Microsoft Azure offers a variety of compute services in the cloud. This includes Virtual Machines, Azure App Service, Azure Functions, and more!
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Nested VMs in Azure with one click? You must be crazy…
When I first heard that you could run nested VMs with Azure, I ran over to my laptop to deploy one of those shiny new…
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…
Azure Availability Zones
One of the largest gaps that Azure has had when compared to the competition has been the lack of high-availability options. The most glaring has…
How to Setup an Ubuntu Linux VM in Azure with Remote Desktop (RDP) Access
Some time back I wrote about doing Visual Studio development with an Azure Virtual Machine (VM). In that article, I showed how you can setup…
Scaling Azure Functions with Durable Functions
Serverless compute is the latest advancement in Platform as a Service (PaaS) capabilities in the cloud. Azure Functions is the Serverless Compute service options available…
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: 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…
How to Compare Azure VM Pricing Across Azure Regions
At first glance, Virtual Machine pricing in Microsoft Azure seems fairly straight forward. However, the different VM pricing tiers actually do vary in price from…
Save Money in Azure Tip 1: Compare Azure Region Pricing
In this video, I show you the specifics on comparing Azure Region pricing information around Virtual Machine hosting. As you can see, the Azure Regions…
Top 10 Tricks to Save Money with Azure Virtual Machines
This post contains 10 tips and tricks you can use to save money on your Virtual Machines (VMs) running in the Microsoft Azure cloud. The…
Create Ubuntu Linux VM in the Azure Portal
This is a short video that shows how to create an Ubuntu Linux Virtual Machine (VM) in the Microsoft Azure Management Portal. It also explains…
Windows Server running on ARM CPUs, Azure is Next!
So far the servers within Microsoft Azure data centers have been running Intel processors (CPUs). For a long time I’ve wondered if the power efficiency…
Azure Functions vs Web Jobs: How to choose?
There are a few choices when it comes to implementing custom background processing tasks. The main options in the Microsoft Azure cloud are to use…
Azure Functions Visual Studio Tools Preview for VS’2015
The serverless computing realm of cloud computing has been growing in interest and functionality lately. Recently, Azure Functions reached General Availability and an eagerly anticipated…
Single Instance VMs Now With 99.9% SLA
Since the initial release of the Virtual Machine (VM) hosting service within Microsoft Azure there’s been a limitation on achieving the minimum requirements for the…
What is Serverless Architecture?
One of the latest moves by cloud service providers (like Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS) is the shift to offering “serverless” services. These are Platform…
How Azure Functions Pricing Works
Serverless computing is a growing trend in cloud computing, and it’s a natural next step in the Platform as a Service (PaaS) area. First PaaS…
Azure N-Series VMs and NVIDIA GPUs in the Cloud
It’s been quite some time since we last heard details about the upcoming N-Series Virtual Machines (VMs). in Microsoft Azure. Microsoft recently announced further details on…