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Taking a snapshot of a Managed Disk
Solution ·We talked about Managed Disks, now let’s use them.
Let’s snapshot a Managed Disk and restore the snapshot on another VM.
Deploy ARM Template
{ "$schema": "https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2015-01-01/deploymentTemplate.json#", "contentVersion": "1.0.0.0", "parameters": { "VM Admin User Name": { "defaultValue": "myadmin", "type": "string" }, "VM Admin Password": { "defaultValue": null, "type": "securestring" }, "VM Size": { "defaultValue": "Standard_DS4", "type": "string", "allowedValues":...
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Migrating from unmanaged to managed disks
Solution ·We talked about Managed Disks, now let’s use them.
Let’s migrate existing VMs from unmanaged to managed disks.
Install pre-requisites
Update your Microsoft Azure PowerShell to the latest bits in order to include Managed Disks functionalities
Deploy ARM Template
{ "$schema": "https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2015-01-01/deploymentTemplate.json#", "contentVersion": "1.0.0.0", "parameters": { "VM Admin User Name": { "defaultValue": "myadmin", "type": "string" }, "VM Admin...
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Azure Managed Disk–Overview
Solution ·Microsoft released Azure Managed disk 2 weeks ago. Let’s look at it!
What did we have until then? The virtual hard disk (.vhd file) was stored as a page blob in an Azure Storage account.
That worked quite fine and Azure Disks are a little more than that. A...
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Extended Outage @ Instapaper - Resiliency example
Solution ·I use Instapaper extensively to store the continuous flow of internet articles I want to read. I created a bunch of tools integrating with it (e.g. monitoring atom feeds and sending new articles to Instapaper)
Last week my tools didn’t work for a while so I finally logged...
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Automating Azure AD
Solution ·In the previous article, we explored how to interact (read / write) to an Azure AD tenant using Microsoft Graph API.
In the article before that, we looked at how to authenticate a user without using Azure AD web flow.
Those were motivated by a...