Azure

An update to the Azure portal adds the ability to visualize Azure Resource Graph queries.

How to collect and aggregate Prometheus metrics from any application with Azure Monitor and AKS.

WTH is Azure Data Share? Find out what this new service is, what it does and why you might want to use it.

Using the PowerShell testing framework, Pester, to test Packer generated Azure Virtual Machine images.

Using a new VS Code extension to bring together Terraform, VS Code, Azure Cloud Shell and optimize the Terraform development experience

We take a look at using the popular open source log export, Fluent Bit, to export Kubernetes logs directly into Azure Log Analytics.

This week we saw a significant update to the ARM template for Cosmos DB, which now allows us to create databases and containers. Up until now, we’ve only been able to create Cosmos DB accounts using templates, we then had to create the databases, containers, tables etc. through PowerShell or the portal etc. With this update, we are now able to deploy much more of our Cosmos setup with ARM templates, including databases, containers, graphs, namespaces and tables.

This week we saw the announcement of the public preview of Windows Server Containers on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Windows support in AKS has been something we’ve been waiting for, for a while now and is excellent news for those trying to lift and shift Windows applications into containers. As we’ve discussed previously, if you can, using Linux containers is always going to give you the fastest start-up time and fewer complications, however not everyone can re-write their apps in .

If your working in Azure regularly at scale then it’s very likely you spend a fair amount of time at the command line using the Azure PowerShell cmdlets or Azure CLI (or both). This week at the Build conference Microsoft announced: “Windows Terminal” a new command line experience for Windows, which looks very interesting. It’s still in development, but you can download the source from Github and build it yourself if you’re interested in trying it out.

Maybe joy is not the right word, but tags can be a handy tool for organising and querying your Azure resources, and are something I find are often not used very well. In this article, we’ll take a look at why tags are useful and some examples of how you can use them and what you can do to ensure they are applied. Tags If you’ve not already seen them, tags allow you to add arbitrary key-value pairs to most (there are still some edge cases) resource in Azure.