Author Archives: admin

Resources to learn Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Language

Posted on July 18, 2015 by admin

Azure Resource Manager(ARM) was announced in Spring 2014. It is a completely different way of deploying services on Azure platform. It matters because before the release of ARM it was only possible to deploy one service at a time. When … Continue reading →

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Installing Java Runtime in Azure Cloud Services with Chocolatey

Posted on July 6, 2015 by admin

I recently wrote a blog post about installing Splunk on Azure Web/Worker roles with the help of a startup task. You can see that blog post here. In this blog post I will show you how to install Java runtime … Continue reading →

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Installing Splunk Forwarder in Azure Web/Worker Roles with a Startup Task

Posted on July 3, 2015 by admin

Overview I recently had to install Splunk Universal Forwarder in Azure worker roles. Azure web/worker roles are stateless so the only way to install any software is to do so via Azure startup tasks. Azure startup tasks have been around … Continue reading →

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How to migrate from Standard Azure Virtual Machines to DS Series Storage Optimized VM’s

Posted on June 14, 2015 by admin

Background We are implementing Azure solutions for a few clients. Most of our clients are use cloud services and virtual machines to implement their solutions on Azure platform. For many years Azure platform  only offered just one performance tier for … Continue reading →

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Azure SDK 2.6 Diagnostics Improvements for Cloud Services

Posted on May 3, 2015 by admin

I haven’t blogged for a while because of being very busy at work. Things are slowing down a bit so I will try to write more frequently. History Azure SDK 2.5 made big changes to Azure diagnostics. It introduced Azure … Continue reading →

Posted in Automation, Azure, DevOps, PowerShell | Tagged | 6 Comments