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Installation of Azure Monitoring libraries for python
Sometimes you need a “strong” tool for Azure management and Azure Monitoring. In this case you have the Azure Monitoring libraries for python which could be installed with pip install azure-mgmt-monitor. Then when you are lucky you can use it immediately (MS documentation here). What happens if you are facing an unexpected issue when you […]
MERRY XMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR
I would like to say thank you for the support and the cooperation in 2017. It was a great year! I have created a small and fun gift for you which is of course related with Azure…Merely you should follow the next steps: Download this ARM Template: https://the1bitwebapps.blob.core.windows.net/other/merryXmas.json Open a browser and login to […]
GCP – Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL updated with new extensions
Among relational databases, PostgreSQL is the open-source solution of choice for a wide range of workloads. Back in March, we added support for PostgreSQL in Cloud SQL, our managed database service, with a limited set of features and extensions. Since then, we’ve been amazed by your interest, with many of you taking the time to […]
Some words about Azure VM disks
I think when you create a Linux VM in Azure there are some important things you need to know. Although most of information are written by Microsoft I feel the repetion and collection is a very good opportunity for everybody to find the related information.
AzCopy – behind proxy
There are some days in your life when you feel you would like to do something different in Azure than other days such as you want to create and upload your own VHD to Azure (instead of using VM images from marketplace). It seems this is a very hard challenge because you need a local […]
Good news: default Windows OS disk size is 30 GB from now in Azure
From the beginning I was sad because when I created a Windows Server in Azure the OS disk size was 128GB which generates higher cost and to tell the truth regularly we do not need this huge space on OS disk.
Azure-Cli 0.10.9 bug – time to downgrade
In the past I posted an article which describes how you can install the Azure-Cli to your Linux machine. Then I had created some bash scripts and I used the advantages of this kind of Azure management. And on 3rd of February in 2017 the latest version arrived. This is the 0.10.9.
Azure command-line interface on Linux
A day you will meet that situation when you should manage your VMs from a Linux based environment but your Linux skills are not on the top yet. 🙂 Of course Microsoft provides a very good description for Azure-Cli installation, some important Linux side configuration and prerequisites steps are missing from that. Nevertheless you are […]
Visual Studio Code for Azure templates
Since I have been working with Azure ARM, I have looked for an easy-to-use, familiar and free JSON viewer and editor for Azure ARM templates modify and creation. I downloaded some free software according to Google suggestions and I tried the JSON plugin to Notepad++ but they are not suitable for me.
When you cannot connect to an Azure Environment
The Azure is a continuously growing “monster” and sometimes you have no chance to follow it or a new environment is hide yet (but you know the name of this environment).