I was recently working with a customer who needed to make mass changes to Azure disks (we’re talking couple 100 disks). The disks were part of a demo environment that was very infrequently used, but when it was used it needed to perform well. When the demo was spun up, the disks needed to be […]
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Execute arbitrary PowerShell or Azure CLI in an ARM template
ARM templates are a great way to deploy infrastructure to Azure. The issue however is that sometimes, you need to do something that is not supported in a template. Think about executing an Azure Function when the template completes, or updating a config file in blob storage / some table. There is a new preview […]
Setting up an Azure Automation Hybrid Worker
I am working with a customer that is going to set up an Azure Automation hybrid worker. A Hybrid Worker in Azure Automation allows you to run automation scripts on your own VMs. The benefit of this is that while the script is running, it can connect to all resources on the network it has […]
Creating a self-destructing VM
A couple of weeks ago I sat in a meetup, where Dave Stanke from Google mentioned he sometimes creates self-destructing VMs. I had never thought about self-destructing VMs, and decided to try this out with Azure. What’s required for a self-destructing VM First things first, we’ll need a way to create our VM. Through this […]