8 posts tagged with "Azure"

This is part 4 in a series of posts about writing service brokers in .NET Core.

This is part 3 in a series of posts about writing service brokers in .NET Core.

Azure Resource Manager (ARM) provides you with the means to describe the infrastructure for your Azure applications. This includes storage accounts, virtual machines, Azure SQL databases and a lot more. On a project I'm working on we're using it to describe the layout of an Azure Service Fabric cluster but we decided to start using it for all resource groups.

Azure API Management recently announced the general availability of a new feature called Versions and Revisions. Versions allow you to group multiple versions of your API, revisions allow controlled, safe and testable API changes. Here is another post that explains things in more detail.

This post is sort of a follow up on a previous post where I attempted to prevent a duplicate login when accessing both Azure Resource Manager and Azure AD in the same PowerShell script, still without success by the way.

UPDATE (2018-02-12): The method described below does not work, unfortunately. Connect-AzureAD runs without error but the AD context you get is not authorized to perform AD operations.

One of our customers runs on Azure Service Fabric (SF) which is backed by a Virtual machine scale set (VMSS). We had a connectivity problem recently and one of the developers enabled remote debugging on the SF cluster to see what went wrong. Little did he know that (among other things) a large number of additional TCP ports are opened on the cluster load balancers to allow debuggers to attach.

I was looking at options to run some PowerShell scripts in Azure and my first idea was: why not start a Windows Server Container with the right PowerShell modules and run the scripts there? Turns out there are better options for running PowerShell scripts in Azure ([Azure Automation Runbooks][1]) so I did not continue on this path but this is really cool technology and I learned a few things so I thought: let's write this down.