When you use azure-cli (2.x) you know it uses Python 2 by default. Nevertheless Python 2.7 will not be maintained from January 1, 2020. This means Python 2 will retire soon. You can find some details and a counter for this special day here: https://pythonclock.org/ Don’t worry, Python 3 is here with standard libraries and […]
In this spring I wrote a post about CI/CD with Git, Azure and Jenkins where I showed you an easy configuration of a CI/CD process. This post contained a chapter where we created a Service Principal in Azure for automation. Since that I received many request from your side to make a demo about Service Principal creation […]
Today is a milestone because I will provide you a “real-life” solution for a “real-life” scenario with Ansible in Azure. Why is it so important? Since I started to learn Ansible I found several examples for different scenarios but as I realized nobody has provided a really good solution for that situation when you would […]
In this week I would like to show you my latest automation solution for Azure. This is able to start a VM in Azure. Everybody knows the automatic VM shutdown feature (Microsoft.DevTestLab/schedules) in Azure. It had been debutated in 2016. I love to use it for Azure developer servers because it can save cost and […]
In the world of clouds there are some home servers and on-premise servers which work hard to do their daily tasks for their owners. The people who own these machines often try to reach them through internet. Due to internet suppliers – who provide dynamic IP for their customers – this is a real challenge […]
In March I started a serie about Ansible. Now I would like to show you the first real code and solution how you can create Azure resources with Ansible. I know this is only the second part of the serie therefore I will show a simple and easy-to-understand example which can work in a live […]
About a month ago I wrote a post about a Bug in azure-cli 2.0.30. That bug affects some amaretto related functions and features. As I forecasted and the MS promised me the fix is here. This is a really good news. Today I will show you how this fix works then I provide a collection […]
Last week I showed you How you can integrate Git and Jenkins. Inside that post I did not provide script part for Azure related operation. Today I would like to show it. In Step 4.4.5 we configured a file which is located on our Git. (pipeline/Jenkinsfile). This file is the “link” which can call an […]
“How to prepare our CI/CD process?” – This could be the subtitle of this article. Why? Because I will show you how you can start to build a fully automated CI/CD process. What is CI/CD? You can read it on Wikipedia. Nevertheless this is a very important and useful thing nowadays when we work […]
In this week I would like to inform you about a bug in azure-cli 2.0.30 which can cause some inconveniences when you want to copy blobs in Azure storage accounts. Some days ago I started to create a solution for copy files inside storage account (this is related a git pipeline solution) and I […]
I know…this is another restore related post for unmanaged disk. I promise this is the last in this period… 🙂 So the concept is here for restore and you can find here the previous unmanaged disk related restore with several scripts. (the managed disk related steps are here) Now I would like to show you […]
Last week I provided the unmanaged disk related restore description which based on the concept for restore and now I show the managed disk related restore steps on technical level. Some useful information before you start the restore: Required naming convention OS disk and Data disks related vhds must be in the following format: […]
In the last some weeks I have been working an Azure tool collection which could be useful for everyone who wants to do cool things in Azure. The result of it a python package which will be expanded day-by-day. In this article I would like to provide it to you for testing or everyday usage. […]
As I promised last week I provide some materials for unmanaged disk based VM restore from Recovery Services vault. Last week I posted the concept for restore and now I show the most important steps on technical level. Some useful information before you start the restore: Required naming convention OS disk and Data disks related […]