Andrew
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How to Deploy Azure Virtual Machines – Part 2 – CLI in Cloud Shell
Today we continue our deployment of Microsoft Azure virtual machines. There are many ways to do this – some manual – and some that support automation; we’ll continue our look at the options. Let’s take a look at CLI for creating VM infrastructure…
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How to Deploy Azure Virtual Machines
Let’s talk about how to deploy a Microsoft Azure virtual machine. There are many ways to do this – some manual – and some that support automation; we’ll look at quite a few of the options starting with some simpler ones first. A great way to get started with your Azure Infrastructure deployments is right…
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Managing Azure Resources – A Primer – Controlling Costs with Automation
Last time we looked at some different ways of getting started with managing your Azure resources. Today I’d like to introduce you a little bit to Azure Automation – this time for saving money in shutting down unused resources – and also starting them on a schedule. Last article we created a demo resource group…
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Managing Azure Resources – A Primer
Let’s take a ground-level look at managing your resources in Azure. I want to introduce a few different methods to control your resources such as virtual machines, storage accounts, and anything that you keep within a resource group really. Let’s dive right in and find some different ways to work with and control our resources!
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Azure Updates – Number 1 – January 04, 2021
The first of an ongoing series with Azure updates in the areas of general updates, architecture, compute, and Azure Sentinel. Every two weeks I’ll aggregate a comprehensive list from many things Internet and post with links back to the resources. Bringing the many resources into one spot for Azure News to save you time!
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Azure Automation Account – Adding PowerShell to the Mix
Let’s take a look at adding Runbook to our Azure Automation account that we created in our last article together. Today, we’ll add a simple script as a runbook and see how to get it running in a simple way.
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Create an Azure Automation Account
Today we’re going to get ready to create some automation in Azure together. The end goal is to get ready to set some PowerShell scripting to follow a schedule and run entirely in Azure. We’ll start with the basics first and go from there. Let’s dive right in and get things started to run with…
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Using Azure Spot VM Instances – The Regional Quota Challenge
Microsoft Azure Spot VMs can represent significant savings to an organization when combined with good overall resource management practices. Today, let’s take a look at how to request an increase to your Spot VM regional limits. We will walk through how to create an Azure Support request to increase regional vCPU limits today. If you…
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Using Azure Spot VM Instances – The Quota Challenge
Today we take a deeper look at Spot VMs in Azure and how to request a quota limit increase for all virtual machines in Microsoft Azure. Spot VMs allow you to take advantage of unused capacity on Azure VM hosts at a significant cost savings in exchange for letting Azure remove VMs if a pay-as-you-go…
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Using Azure Spot Instances
Today we take a look at Spot VMs in Azure and what it’s all about. Spot VMs allow you to take advantage of unused capacity on Azure VM hosts at a significant cost savings; but there is a catch. Your VMs can be evicted if Azure needs the capacity back. This style of VM hosting…