Managing cloud infrastructure and applications can quickly become complex. As your Azure environment grows, it’s crucial to maintain visibility into the health, performance, and security of your ...
Get VM SKU Availability in Azure Availability Zones
In my previous article I went over why and when we sometimes face capacity issues in Azure while trying to provision Virtual Machines : Understanding and Overcoming Azure VM SKU Capacity Limitati...
Understanding And Overcoming Azure VM SKU Capacity Limitations
Azure’s global infrastructure provides great flexibility for deploying virtual machines (VMs) across regions and zones. However, when planning high availability, performance, or cost-optimized ar...
Azure Network Peering diagram with PowerShell
In my previous article Diagram as Code with PowerShell, I demonstrated how to generate Azure architecture diagrams using Mermaid and PowerShell. This approach allows you to create dynamic, code-d...
Diagram as Code with PowerShell
This article is part of the Festive Tech Calendar 2024, and fun fact—it’s a bit nostalgic for me! My very first blog post on this page ago was also part of this initiative. It feels great to cont...
How to setup and use Azure Quick Review (AZQR)
Today I want to talk about exciting new tool. Azure Quick Review (azqr) is a command-line interface (CLI) tool designed to analyze Azure resources, ensuring they adhere to Microsoft’s best practi...
Azure VM Remote Script Execution Tools Compared
In Azure we have a few different places where we can run our scripts and even more ways to let our scripts access VMs remotely. One of the original methods was to use Hybrid Worker, but that is r...
Automating Azure VM Snapshots
Azure Virtual Machine (VM) Snapshots provide a quick and efficient way to capture the current state of a virtual machine’s disk. Snapshots are useful for data recovery, testing, and disaster reco...
Understanding Physical and Logical Azure Availability Zones
Azure provides high availability and resilience through its Availability Zones, which are designed to ensure fault isolation while maintaining low-latency connectivity. However, there is often co...
When and How to Use Azure Resource Locks Without Causing Yourself Trouble
Azure provides powerful tools to help manage and secure cloud resources, and Azure Resource Locks are among the most essential mechanisms for protecting critical workloads. By preventing accident...