A lot of organizations rely on tags for organizing Azure resources. Tags are useful to contain metadata about owners, environment, function and are also very useful to keep track of costs. When you create an Azure Databricks cluster, the service will create a managed resource group on your behalf. This managed resource group has a […]
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Custom metrics in Azure monitor
I had a conversation today about custom metrics in Azure. I have worked with customers in the past that have streamed custom metrics into Azure Log Analytics to process them. This was a case where a customer had done more research than me, and had discovered that it’s possible to send custom metrics into Azure […]
Lessons learnt co-authoring a book
I wrote a book! Writing a book is something that stood on my bucket list of things I wanted to achieve, and I hadn’t considered actually doing it year. However, I got a great opportunity to work with Packt on the second edition of the Hands-On Kubernetes on Azure book. I am very glad with […]
Creating nested VM using KVM on Azure
I am working with a customer that has the use case of running nested virtual machines on Azure. They’re using KVM and QEMU today, and I wanted to prove out that it is possible to run VMs using KVM and QEMU on Azure. KVM is a technology that allows you to run full virtual machines […]
How to connect VNETs in different Azure regions?
When discussing Azure networking, a question that frequently comes up is how to connect different Azure regions. More specifically, this question typically boils down to how to connect VNETs that are in different regions. There are three options to achieve this connection, which we’ll discuss in this post: Global VNET peering VNET-to-VNET connection Expressroute Although […]