I heard about these for the first time last year, but I thought I would blog about it because it helps me tremendously on a day to day basis. Microsoft have created Powershell docker images that have all the good cmdlets that you can use anywhere at any time, with a simple SSH. I keep […]
A side project between myself and Nicolas Blank has finally come to fruition! The Cloud Architects is bi-weekly podcast about best practice, guidance, news and cutting edge Microsoft cloud technologies. Interviews with passionate people in the cloud space and a platform for us to share some of our Tips and Tricks. Some of our interviews will be […]
I recently came across a fantastic cloud SDN provider called Zerotier which allows you to create your own networks in the cloud and connect clients to it. The greatest feature of Zerotier is that they provide an extremely lightweight and well written network interface driver for Windows, Mac and Linux flavors. They also provide Android and […]
Since I find myself in between both of these worlds. I decided to do a comparison of Microsoft Azure App Services and normal CPanel based hosting services. Not only the features but price… I will be updating this post with my findings and see how feasible it could be to use all of Azure’s free […]
The highly anticipated release of Azure CLI 2.0 I use a MacBook Pro as my primary workstation and so I rushed to install the CLI to check out the new options and pretty much used the default install options. (never a good idea, should have listened to my brain) It left all sorts of junk […]
I have been lucky enough to be asked to present at new series of events at Microsoft Johannesburg. These “Smart Lab” events are weekly and allow Microsoft customers and Microsoft Technology consumers to come through to the Microsoft Head Office in Johannesburg with their Azure problems/speed bumps/roadmaps and allow us (myself and the Microsoft Technology […]
Something I noticed on many fresh installations of Ubuntu is that when you install the node package manager (npm) and then install the azure-cli as per Microsoft’s website. When you run the azure command, you get the following error. root@LinuxVMtoASR:~# azure /usr/bin/env: node: No such file or directoryroot@LinuxVMtoASR:~# Node is there, it’s just the binary […]
Something awesome about Azure Resource Manager mode is that the cli can call quick deploy functions in Azure If you need to create an Azure machine workload quickly, you can do so in a one liner which willl create all the needed network config, assign a public IP, create the port forward for ssh, assign […]
So with the release of the Azure Resource Manager and all its glory, Microsoft was kind enough to update its CLI as well with Azure Service Management mode and Azure Resource Management mode. This post is a short and sweet post about how you can create multiple vm instances from some of the built in […]
So Microsoft has been quite generous and allowed us nix users a really cool way of admin-ing our Azure resources with a simple yet robust cli. How to install the CLI….Microsoft gives a great tutorial here 🙂 But for those who dont want to sit and read the whole page, here is the Mac version.Download […]