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Introducing the “Helm Install Command” Bicep Module: Streamlining AKS bootstrapping

Pixel Robots. — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 15:00:05 +0000

Reading Time: 4 minutesRecently I have been working on a new Bicep module that significantly simplifies deploying Helm charts onto Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). This module harnesses the power of the AKS run command. I used the aks-run-command module from the bicep public repository as a starting point. So, credit goes to them Read more

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Stop and Start an Azure Virtual Machine – The new way

Pixel Robots. — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 13:16:00 +0000

Reading Time: 3 minutesRecently whilst looking at the Azure portal I came across a new section on the VM blade that I have not seen before, or I have and forgot about it. This section is called Automation. Under here you have the option to export the arm template for your virtual machine, Read more

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Purge container images from Azure Container Registry (ACR) on demand or on a schedule

Pixel Robots. — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 09:30:00 +0000

Reading Time: 5 minutesAs I work more with Containers and Azure Container Registry the more potential I see. In fact just the other day I was noticing that the list of images in my ACR was growing quickly. The list was getting huge. Now, this might be OK for some people, but I Read more

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Automatically create container images using Azure Container Registry Tasks

Pixel Robots. — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 09:15:11 +0000

Reading Time: 4 minutesIn this article, I am going to walk through the process of using Azure Container Registry (ACR) tasks to automate building Docker container images when you commit source code to a git repository. By doing this you can save yourself a lot of time. Prerequisites So you will need to Read more

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Use Terraform to join a new Azure Virtual Machine to a Domain

Pixel Robots. — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 14:12:14 +0000

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs I continue using terraform with Microsoft Azure, I keep finding cool stuff. In this short blog post, I am going to show you how to join an Azure Virtual Machine to an Active Directory Domain using a VM Extension. The below example can be added to your existing VM Read more

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Using Logic Apps to delete files older than X number of days from Azure Blob Storage

Pixel Robots. — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 13:32:53 +0000

Reading Time: 4 minutesRecently I have had to the need to clean up some of my blob storage and keep it clean. This can be done using an Azure PowerShell Runbook, but I wanted to see if it could be done with little to no code. Azure Logic Apps are perfect for this. Read more

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Start/Stop VMs during off-hours solution in Azure

Pixel Robots. — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 15:57:55 +0000

Reading Time: 4 minutesI have some Virtual Machines running in Azure that do not need to be on all the time. In fact, they are just training machines. I needed a way to stop and start the VMs out of business hours without having to do it manually. After some research I came Read more

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