Automation
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 CLI
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
Storage
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
Microsoft Azure
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
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Microsoft Azure
Today I was implementing a snapshot/restore mechanism for virtual machines with the help of Azure Automation. After importing my script in Azure Automation, I encountered an error while invoking it. The message was: Unable to cast object of type 'System.String' to type 'System.Object[]'
PowerShell
A nasty breaking change has slipped into version 1.1.0 of AzureRM.Storage which coincide with the release v1.4.0 of AzureRM module. If you use the return object of the Get-AzureRmStorageAccountKey command you are impacted. This is because the object that was coming out of Get-
Microsoft Azure
Not long ago, one of my colleagues asked me how he could automate the purge of an Azure CDN endpoint. I browsed around a bit with him and the only documentation we've found talked about calling the Azure CDN REST API, meaning acquiring a bearer token and all.
PowerShell
Not long ago, one of my colleagues asked me how we could automate an action that was not quite available in the Azure PowerShell cmdlets. Sure we can use Azure REST API, meaning acquiring a bearer token and all, but if I have the choice, I prefer to stay away
Microsoft Azure
Under Azure Resource Manager, 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? You have
PowerShell
Getting the status of a virtual machine is really handy because once you have that information you can then take decisions and perform several actions on your virtual machines like starting it, stopping it, etc. List all virtual machines in a subscription To list all the virtual machines in a
Microsoft Azure
When playing with ARM templates in a team, you need a way to come up with unique names for your DNS dependent resources on Azure like storage accounts and public IPs. There is a function that has been released recently that will help you a lot with this need, the
PowerShell
If you are experiencing this error: "Extension with publisher 'Microsoft.Powershell', type 'DSC', and type handler version 'x.x' could not be found in the extension repository" it is because Microsoft just pulled the cord on PowerShell DSC extension v1.x up