For years, the resources.azure.com website provided a convenient way to explore and interact with Azure resources through raw HTTP calls to the Azure Management APIs. It was particularly useful for performing custom REST operations directly against Azure resources. Sadly, this tool has been retired, leaving many of us
Azure paired regions and zone compatible regions are fundamental for ensuring redundancy and high availability of your applications in the cloud. Understanding the geography, physical regions, and their pairings can help you make informed decisions when architecting solutions on Azure. In this guide, we'll walk through how you
Not long ago, I experienced a classic "Today I Fucked Up" moment while working on a data migration at work. We needed to sync data between Azure storage accounts to set up infrastructure in a new region. Source accounts were cluttered with good and stale data, in the
Recently, I encountered a situation with Azure Storage. We were playing with immutability policy in a storage account in a test environment. We've set a policy for tests, we did what we wanted to do, when the time came to delete the environment, I hit a roadblock. Locked
The articles you find here are more around technical guidance, how-to's and errors I encountered throughout the year. It's only been recent for me to write up about decisions & what happens at work. GSoft's tech blog Some of my colleagues and I
I wanted to improve an audit query we are running every month because I hate doing things manually over and over again. Before today, we were setting the date range for the previous month manually and I was searching a way to automate this instead. I found a way... Manually
We wanted to know which actions where done by a human and not a service principal when looking at Azure Activities in Log Analytics queries. We thought of a nice quick way to do it! Email vs GUID Our assumption is that all humans that trigger something in Azure will
It is not a secret anymore that I really like Azure Resource Graph. Today I wanted to list all the subscriptions under a management group and had to adjust because I was leveraging hidden tags before on subscriptions. This data is now gone in ARG, let see how I now
We migrated most of our automation from ARM Templates to Bicep in the recent months and things have been good so far. We ran into an issue deploying a bicep file containing French characters using Azure CLI. The message was: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte
In Azure, resource groups are very helpful to logically hold together a set of resources. For many reasons, at some point, you'll want to get rid of these resources but how can you achieve this and what are the pros and cons of each? This is an actualized
One of the main issues facing IT management in 2020 is uncontrolled cloud spending. Learn how to gain the visibility and insights you need to take control of your cloud environment, and implement a team-wide Azure cost management strategy.
Over the years I posted a few scripts that have been useful for me in Azure on ScriptCenter. Time has come to move them on a newer platform since ScriptCenter is now obsolete and is retiring. Bye Bye ScriptCenter ScriptCenter will continue to operate in read-only mode, no new