Azure CLI 2.0: List and Set Azure Subscription
To list and set the Azure Subscription to run Azure CLI commands against is an important step in command-line scripting. To do this, there are a couple important commands used to list the Azure...
View ArticleAzure CLI 2.0: Create Azure IoT Hub
It’s really easy to provision an instance of Azure IoT Hub using the Azure Portal. However, there are times when you need to automate the task. You can use the Azure CLI to create new instances of...
View ArticleAzure CLI Kung-Fu Tips and Tricks
The last week has been a blur because I didn’t sleep. I spent days helping a client restore every single VM that had running in Azure (about 250). Why? They got a ransomware virus and their entire...
View ArticleAz Kung Fu VM – Master Tools for Azure Administrators
Have you ever spent hours building a machine to use as an admin workstation for Azure? What about installing the Windows Subsystem for Linux? Well, have we have something for you! It’s always a pain to...
View ArticleAzure CLI: Manage Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service (DPS)
One of the services within Microsoft Azure for building out IoT solutions is the Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service (DPS). Just as with other services in Azure, the Azure CLI (cross-platform...
View ArticleAzure Kung Fu Toolkit
Welcome to Az Kung Fu, grasshopper! Scripting is the only way to ensure that your environments are the same every time and remove the risk of human error. We write scripts all the time using the Azure...
View ArticleAzure CLI: Create and Manage Service Principals
When an application needs to authenticate with Azure AD you can’t really just give it a username and password. To authenticate and authorize an application or service with the ability to connect to...
View ArticleJumpstart: Open the Network Connections Tab in Windows
TLDR: Start–>Run–>ncpa.cpl Have you ever lost 6 minutes of your life trying to find a network adapter in Windows? Yeah, me too. Windows really started to mess with everyone’s mind back in...
View ArticleDocker development VM in Azure
Ever wish you had a Docker dev workstation in Azure? About two months ago, we introduced the Azure Kung Fu VM, and judging by the views of that article many of you gave it a try. Today, I wanted to...
View ArticleInstall Azure CLI on Windows with Winget
The Azure CLI is the command-line tool for working with Microsoft Azure resources, and grants you access to the CLI through both the Windows Command Prompt (CMD) or PowerShell command-line. You could...
View ArticleAzure Web App: Application Settings
All web applications have some kind of configurations that are set on the server. The method of storing and accessing these settings varies on different web application platforms. In ASP.NET they are...
View ArticleAzure Cloud Shell Tips and Tricks
The Azure Cloud Shell offers the ability to manage cloud resources, virtual machines, run scripts and other tasks directly from within the browser or Azure Mobile app. There are a few command-line...
View ArticleAzure CLI: Suppress Output for Silent Commands / Quiet Mode
The Azure CLI is really great for writing imperative scripts for automating Microsoft Azure resource management. Generally, the command output is helpful in telling you that updates were made or...
View ArticleMicrosoft Azure is Multiple Clouds – Public, US Gov, China and Germany
Did you know that Microsoft Azure is not just one public cloud? Most of us only interact with the Public Azure Cloud, but this isn’t the only Microsoft Azure cloud. There are actually four different...
View ArticleUpdate Azure CLI from the command-line (az upgrade)
The Azure CLI can be updated from the command-line in Windows. The command az upgrade is used for this, and it has a few options which are useful. Like all Azure CLI (az) commands, there is help that...
View ArticleAzure CLI: Delete All Resources Within Resource Group
There are times when you want to delete all the resources within a specific Azure Resource Group, but you do not want to delete the resource group. Sure, deleting the entire resource group might be...
View ArticleAzure CLI: Delete Public IP from Existing NIC / VM
So you have already created a Virtual Machine in Azure that is provisioned with a Public IP address and you need to remove it. Don’t worry, you do NOT need to delete the VM. You can disassociate the...
View ArticleAzure CLI: Get Private Link Service Alias / DNS Name
Azure Private Link provides a way to be able to access resources sitting behind an Azure Load Balancer (such as Virtual Machines) to be accessed by other Azure services using Private Endpoints from...
View ArticleAzure CLI: Add/Remove IP Addresses on Azure Synapse Firewall
Recently, I performed a lot of work as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / DevOps Engineer on a project that utilizes Azure Synapse for a large data lake and data processing implementation. Through my...
View ArticleAzure CLI: Call Azure REST API Directly
The Azure CLI is a command-line tool built to give a native CLI interface for working with Microsoft Azure resources. The Azure CLI itself will make calls to the Azure REST API to perform actions that...
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