Cloud Computing with Microsoft Azure
How do you add Azure Hybrid benefit to your automated Azure Resource Manager deployment? In this post i will talk about what and why AHB and how to automate enablement in the deployment What is AHB AHB Tips Add to ARM Template Check AHB Convert existing non AHB to AHB Template in demo repo What … Read more
Part 1: Prerequisites and Key Vault Part 2: ARM Template and JsonADDomainExtension, details Part 3: Summary, Thoughts and flaws In part one I talked about Prerequisites and Key Vault In part two I talked about ARM Template and JsonADDomainExtension details In this part we are doing a deployment for domain join, a summary and pointing … Read more
3 Part blog series Part 1: Prerequisites and Key Vault Part 2: ARM Template and JsonADDomainExtension, details Part 3: Summary, Thoughts and flaws In part one I talked about Prerequisites and Key Vault In this part we are looking at the linked/nested template. Prerequisites for this part, some a repeat from part one. AD Domain … Read more
When Authoring Azure Resource Manager templates my preferred tool is VSCode, previous it was ATOM but that was a long time ago… VSCode out of the box needs some extensions to give a richer Authoring experience, in this post I am trying to guide to some great extensions. I have two great resources to share … Read more
This will be a three part blog series on Automatically domain join Azure VMs from ARM template deployment with Key Vault secured domain join credentials 1: Prerequisites and Key Vault 2: ARM Template and JsonADDomainExtension, details 3: Summary, Thoughts and flaws Prerequisites and Key Vault. When using ARM templates to automate provisioning of VMs you … Read more
Almost a year passed since my latest blog… I follow Microsoft Ignite (sadly not physically at the event) and i will try to create some blog posts regarding news and also how-to guides and tips with Azure focus. Now that Windows Server 2016 is around the corner to be released, and the RTM version is … Read more
Subtle differences but still worth mentioning. In this previous post I wanted to ease the number of clicks you have to take before getting to the RDP download, also how to get all RDP files to RDCM 2.7 How do i RDP for ARM VM with PowerShell 1.0? Launch RDP for VM in a cloud … Read more
In my previous post you got intro to getting started with Power Shell 1.0 and Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Also take a look at this post by @s_lapointe In this post I hope to inspire you to continue with it. Authenticate with Multiple Tenants! The Solution is: Login-AzureRmAccount -SubscriptionId “subscription you want to manage” Before … Read more
The evolution never stops! I have been doing some Azure Resource Manager related work with building templates and setting up governance with processes and management for a service organization, the challenge in this is seldom the technical solutions J (even though there are room for improvement on the technical side also) So Azure PowerShell 1.0 … Read more
I have had an issue with using old syntax for the Azure VM size when I fiddle with Azure Resource Manger. The issue is that in the old AzureServiceManagement we use small, medium, large etc for some VMs. These are the first naming standards available when Azure IaaS became Generally Available. When deploying VMs in … Read more