PowerShell with a strong focus on Azure SDK / Automation.
Automation is great. I love to script solutions in Azure. But most of the time, that automation started with me fumbling and trialing different approaches in the portal. Once I got something around what I wanted I’ll automate. I suspect you do the same thing. This is why today we’re going to look at how … More Finding a VM Image Reference, Publisher & SKU
Azure Managed Disks (introduced in February 2017) simplified the way Virtual Machine disks are managed in Azure. A little known advantage of that resource is that it exposes its storage type, i.e. Standard vs Premium, as a simple property that can easily be changed. Why would we do that? Typically we’ll move from standard to … More Moving from Standard to Premium disks and back
Azure has a Global Footprint of 40 regions at the time of this writing (mid-September 2017). Not all services are available in every regions. Most aren’t in fact. Only foundational services (e.g. storage) are available everywhere. In order to know where a service is available, we can look at: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/regions/services/ This is handy when we’re … More How to know where a Service is Available in Azure
I’ve written a bit about Azure SQL Elastic Pool lately: an overview, about ARM template and about database size. One of the many great features of Azure SQL Elastic Pool is that like Azure SQL Database (standalone), we can change the eDTU capacity of the pool “on the fly”, without downtime. Unlike its standalone cousin … More Azure SQL Elastic Pool – Moving databases across pools using PowerShell
Writing an Azure ARM template for a Resource Group is getting easier every day but it remains a sport for the initiated. Here I want to give a tip about something I often find hard: how to get the API version of a resource in an ARM template? As everything hardcore in the platform, we’ll … More Finding ARM template ApiVersion
Simple task: I want to list resources under a single ResourceGroup within one of the subscription. This is an excuse to show how to login on different subscription and play a bit with the PowerShell Azure SDK. First thing, start PowerShell Integrated Script Environment (ISE) with the Azure SDK loaded. Login Login to your accounts… … More Listing Resources under Resource Group with Azure PowerShell
Ouf… I’ve been using Azure for quite a while in the old (current actually) portal. Now I look into my resources in the new (preview) portal and… what a mess of a resource group mosaic! Unfortunately, at the time of this writing, you can’t move resources from a Resource Group to another via the portal… … More Move Azure Resources between Resource Groups using Powershell
