One of the first things IT departments do when they start moving workloads to the cloud, is stopping their VMs on a regular basis to safe money. There are plenty of functions and ways to do this, but I thought, a different approach might be fun too - building this as a micro service with several components on Azure.
Read more...Using Terraform has become mainstream at this point and I would like to share with you, how I like to structure my deployments.
Read more...Continuing the Azure Image Builder Series, we take a closer look at performing image network security customizations using an externally hosted Shell script, enforcing a password policy, installing a specific docker version and finally deploying the image to a Azure Shared Images Gallery.
Read more...Azure Image Builder is a virtual machine image provisioning service on Microsoft Azure based on HashiCorp Packer. It has been designed to integrate natively with Microsoft Azure to allow customers to easily create and maintain virtual machine images for consistent deployments. This post is the first of a series to introduce the Azure Image Builder and its benefits by means of showing real-world examples.
Read more...Sometimes multiple external IP address on an Azure Virtual Machine (VM) are needed for a deployed application or script. We will setup a multi NIC VM with one public IP per interface and route some traffic through different interfaces.
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