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Archive for the ‘Azure Cloud’ Category

howisthecloud (@howisthecloud) / Twitter

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/02/09

Getting the latest cloud outages is easy: just follow [Archive] howisthecloud (@howisthecloud) / Twitter

Feeding cloud provider statuses from all over the Internets. Currently tweeting AWS,SFDC,Heroku,GoogleApps,Azure,Sakura,Rackspace,Pivotal statuses. By

I used it to keep an eye on the december 2021 US-EAST-1 AWS outage I wrote about in Does it still hold: “Never keep anything important on AWS in US-EAST-1”?.

–jeroen

Posted in Amazon.com/.de/.fr/.uk/..., AWS Amazon Web Services, Azure Cloud, Cloud, Infrastructure, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »

I won a “The Cloud Resume Challenge Guidebook” bundle: Thanks Forrest Brazeal for writing it and Lightspin for the prize (:

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/12/03

Since all three editions of [Wayback/Archive] The Cloud Resume Challenge Guidebook were on my wish list as I wanted to practice more cloud computing skills in a structured way during my reintegration after the long series of procedures that (hopefully for a long time) got rid of my metastasised rectum cancer, I was really happy to win the bundle late 2022:

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Posted in Amazon.com/.de/.fr/.uk/..., AWS Amazon Web Services, Azure Cloud, Cloud, Cloud Development, Development, GCP Google Cloud Platform, Infrastructure, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Microsoft Azure training resources

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/14

For my link list:

–jeroen

Posted in Azure Cloud, Cloud, Cloud Development, Development, Infrastructure, Software Development, Windows Azure | Leave a Comment »

Packer template for Alpine Linux on Hyper-V and Azure; GitHub – tomconte/packer-alpine-azure

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/05

Cool: a Packer template for Alpine Linux on Hyper-V and Azure: [WayBack] GitHub – tomconte/packer-alpine-azure

I like Alpine Linux because it is lightweight and the focus of being very secure, how popular it is in the Docker scene where it replaced Ubuntu and is now the standar package at [Archive.is/A2] library/alpine – Docker Hub and the motto [WayBack] Alpine Linux; Small. Simple. Secure. Alpine Linux is a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox.

Alpine is not yet out of of the box endorsed by Azure ([WayBack] Endorsed distributions of Linux | Microsoft Docs) so this is a very welcome tool.

From the readme:

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Posted in Azure Cloud, Cloud, Cloud Development, Development, Hyper-V, Infrastructure, Power User, Virtualization, Windows Azure | Leave a Comment »

Amazon EC2 Instance Comparison, and RDS Instance comparison

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/09/14

When you have the forrest and trees problem on Amazon Instances, then these will help a lot:

It is open source too: [WayBack] GitHub – powdahound/ec2instances.info: Amazon EC2 instance comparison site

Found this because I wanted to know instance difference because the 2018 addition of local NVMe storage to C5/M5 instances:

–jeroen

Posted in Azure Cloud, Cloud, Infrastructure, LifeHacker, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Why and how GitLab abandoned Microsoft Azure for Google Cloud | VentureBeat

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/22

Reminder to self to check out how this move went: [WayBack] Why and how GitLab abandoned Microsoft Azure for Google Cloud | VentureBeat.

Via [WayBack] Kristian Köhntopp – Google+

–jeroen

Posted in Azure Cloud, Cloud, Containers, Development, DevOps, Docker, GCP Google Cloud Platform, Google Kubernetes Engine, Infrastructure, Kubernetes (k8n), Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Virtual Machine Serial Console access | Blog | Microsoft Azure

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/08

Reminder to self: out of band access (some older Windows images need extra work; it works out of the box for Linux and more recent Windows images) [WayBackVirtual Machine Serial Console access | Blog | Microsoft Azure.

Related: [WayBack] Azure virtual machine serial console | Microsoft Docs Bi-Directional serial console for Azure virtual machines (aka.ms/serialconsolehelp).

Via: [WayBack] Microsoft Serial Console: how to fix a ‘broken’ cloud – Open Source Insider

–jeroen

 

Posted in Azure Cloud, Cloud, Cloud Development, Development, Infrastructure, Power User, Software Development, Windows Azure | Leave a Comment »

DBA Blog 2.0: Installing Zabbix into Azure using a MySQL PaaS

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/04

Interesting: [WayBack] DBA Blog 2.0: Installing Zabbix into Azure using a MySQL PaaS

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, Azure Cloud, Cloud, Cloud Development, Development, Infrastructure, Monitoring, Power User, Software Development, Windows Azure, Zabbix | Leave a Comment »