Azure ☁️

I am currently working on a few other blog posts and presentations for work on some Azure features which required me to launch a CentOS 7 Virtual Machine running the latest version of Ansible using an ARM template. One thing I had noticed which doing reading up on the services I am going to be using is that a lot of the demos and documentation from Microsoft had buttons where you could Deploy to Azure, so I decided to create my own — you can see the finished product below; ...

Over the next few weeks, I am planning on doing some work which requires me to spin up and teardown several small Kubernetes clusters. As I have access to an Azure Subscription and Microsoft have made the process of launching a cluster quite a painless experience I thought it would make sense to write a quick blog post to cover launching, configuring and tearing down an Azure AKS Cluster. To start with I prefer to set a few environment variables on the command-line for things such and the resource name which are repeated through of the commands I need to run; ...

As I am finding myself using Microsoft Azure more and more I thought I would make some notes about how to quickly access the various web portals. The Azure Portal A lot of the time I use the standard http://portal.azure.com/↗ URL, but as I started having to jump around various accounts for work and also personal use, I discovered that there were some great short cuts you can use. The quickest of these I have been using to navigate the main Azure portal is appending the primary domain of the tenant you want to access to the end of the URL, for example http://portal.azure.com/myadtenant.onmicrosoft.com↗ ; ...

In my previous post I wrote about launching a CentOS 7 Virtual Machine in Azure↗ using Terraform↗ . As you can see from my original configuration I was adding a password and my own user. This worked well, the machine launched and I could access it as expect and sudo to root. However, when it came to using Terraforms built-in provisioner I started to have problems as the commands I was running need root privileges, when I tried using sudo it would sit there waiting for the password to entered. ...

As regular readers will know I really like the tools provided by Hashicorp↗ and today I found an excuse to use one. I needed to bring up a Virtual Machine in Microsoft Azure↗ . I hadn’t logged into Azure for quite a while so imagine my shock when I opened the dashboard, it’s not that great and the beta of the new one isn’t that brilliant either. It was so bad I tweeted about it …. ...