AZOPS Archives - Pixel Robots. https://pixelrobots.co.uk/tag/azops/ A blog about Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and more... Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:44:47 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/cropped-logohead-32x32.png AZOPS Archives - Pixel Robots. https://pixelrobots.co.uk/tag/azops/ 32 32 How to store your Terraform State file in Azure Storage. https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2019/01/how-to-store-your-terraform-state-file-in-azure-storage/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-store-your-terraform-state-file-in-azure-storage https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2019/01/how-to-store-your-terraform-state-file-in-azure-storage/#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2019 10:53:29 +0000 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/?p=32527 Reading Time: 2 minutesAs I use Terraform more my love for it grows. In this article I am going to show you how to store the state of your environment to a tfstate file that is saved in Azure Storage. This file is in the JSON format and is used by Terraform to Read more

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]]> https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2019/01/how-to-store-your-terraform-state-file-in-azure-storage/feed/ 6 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/terraform_Azure.png Azure: Alert on Server disk space below XXGB https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2019/01/azure-alert-on-server-disk-space-below-xxgb/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=azure-alert-on-server-disk-space-below-xxgb https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2019/01/azure-alert-on-server-disk-space-below-xxgb/#comments Wed, 23 Jan 2019 14:54:00 +0000 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/?p=32345 Reading Time: 4 minutesIn this article, I am going to show you what I use to alert on when server disk space drops below a certain amount. You could use any normal server monitoring tool for this, but as my servers are in azure and have the Azure monitoring agent installed already, I Read more

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]]> https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2019/01/azure-alert-on-server-disk-space-below-xxgb/feed/ 11 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/azure-monitor.png Static web hosting using Azure Storage https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2019/01/static-web-hosting-using-azure-storage/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=static-web-hosting-using-azure-storage https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2019/01/static-web-hosting-using-azure-storage/#respond Wed, 16 Jan 2019 13:52:25 +0000 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/?p=32335 Reading Time: 3 minutesA relativity new feature in Azure is the ability to host a static website in Azure storage. This can be handy if you just need to host a simple website cheaply and with little configuration. Although the websites code needs to be static you can use some Azure resources to Read more

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]]> https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2019/01/static-web-hosting-using-azure-storage/feed/ 0 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/staticsite.png The New Azure Role Based Certificates https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2019/01/the-new-azure-role-based-certificates/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-new-azure-role-based-certificates https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2019/01/the-new-azure-role-based-certificates/#comments Sun, 06 Jan 2019 14:42:09 +0000 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/?p=32197 Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat are the new Azure exams? I have seen this question asked a lot, so I thought I would answer it with a video. In fact, this is my first ever video. In this video, I go over the New Azure Role Based certifications. The 3 different levels, the paths Read more

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]]> https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2019/01/the-new-azure-role-based-certificates/feed/ 3 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/vid1.png The New and Improved way to Encrypt an Azure VM running Windows https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2018/10/the-new-and-improved-way-to-encrypt-an-azure-vm-running-windows/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-new-and-improved-way-to-encrypt-an-azure-vm-running-windows https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2018/10/the-new-and-improved-way-to-encrypt-an-azure-vm-running-windows/#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2018 12:56:53 +0000 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/?p=31465 Reading Time: 4 minutesAzure is constantly improving, and one area that has improved is the encryption of Azure Virtual Machines. You may have read a previous article of mine called Encrypt an Azure Virtual Machine by using Key Encryption Key,  in this article I showed you how to encrypt the VM using a Read more

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]]> https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2018/10/the-new-and-improved-way-to-encrypt-an-azure-vm-running-windows/feed/ 2 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/encryptvm.png Create an Azure Virtual Machine from an existing Managed Disk https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2018/10/create-an-azure-virtual-machine-from-an-existing-managed-disk/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=create-an-azure-virtual-machine-from-an-existing-managed-disk https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2018/10/create-an-azure-virtual-machine-from-an-existing-managed-disk/#respond Wed, 03 Oct 2018 12:30:59 +0000 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/?p=31458 Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently I needed to move a VM from one vNet to another. There are a few ways to do this, but for me, as the VM was not critical, I was able to stop it, then delete it, and then recreate it using the Managed Disk. Below I will go Read more

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]]> https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2018/10/create-an-azure-virtual-machine-from-an-existing-managed-disk/feed/ 0 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/manageddiskvm.png Using the Azure Portal to run Scripts Inside an Azure VM https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2018/09/using-the-azure-portal-to-run-scripts-inside-an-azure-vm/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=using-the-azure-portal-to-run-scripts-inside-an-azure-vm https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2018/09/using-the-azure-portal-to-run-scripts-inside-an-azure-vm/#respond Wed, 12 Sep 2018 17:29:49 +0000 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/?p=31222 Reading Time: 3 minutesThe other day I was having a look around the Azure VM blade and came across an option called Run Command. I have never seen this option before so of course, I clicked it, and I am glad I did. From inside this section you are able to run scripts Read more

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]]> https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2018/09/using-the-azure-portal-to-run-scripts-inside-an-azure-vm/feed/ 0 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Azure_Run_Command.png How to Find your Azure Active Directory Tenant ID https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2018/09/how-to-find-your-azure-active-directory-tenant-id/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-find-your-azure-active-directory-tenant-id https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2018/09/how-to-find-your-azure-active-directory-tenant-id/#respond Wed, 05 Sep 2018 17:24:59 +0000 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/?p=31214 Reading Time: 2 minutesThe other day I was setting up Sophos Central and wanted to connect it to my Azure Active Directory. This would allow me to quickly find any unprotected VM’s I have running in Azure. To get Sophos Central to connect I needed to find my Azure Active Directory Tenant ID. Read more

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]]> https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2018/09/how-to-find-your-azure-active-directory-tenant-id/feed/ 0 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/TenantID.png Azure Managed Disk Migration using the Azure Portal https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2018/08/azure-managed-disk-migration-using-the-azure-portal/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=azure-managed-disk-migration-using-the-azure-portal https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2018/08/azure-managed-disk-migration-using-the-azure-portal/#comments Wed, 29 Aug 2018 18:04:11 +0000 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/?p=31167 Reading Time: 3 minutesIf like me you have been using Azure for some time you may have some servers still running with unmanaged disks. On the 2nd August 2018, Microsoft announced the ability to migrate unmanaged disks to managed disks using the Azure portal. You have been able to convert unmanaged disks to Read more

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]]> https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2018/08/azure-managed-disk-migration-using-the-azure-portal/feed/ 2 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/disk-migration.png How to Add multiple Azure DNS Records using PowerShell https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2018/08/how-to-add-multiple-azure-dns-records-using-powershell/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-add-multiple-azure-dns-records-using-powershell https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2018/08/how-to-add-multiple-azure-dns-records-using-powershell/#comments Wed, 22 Aug 2018 19:52:39 +0000 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/?p=31145 Reading Time: 3 minutesRecently I have been creating some CNAME records on one of my domain registers DNS portal. They had recently migrated to a new portal to make things “easier”. This has caused a lot of issues, the last issue I had was being unable to create CNAMES with a – in Read more

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