Azure

One of the things I've enjoyed over the last almost 5 years of all Azure all the time is digging deep into code...specifically ARM Templates. I often make the joke that I've never been a developer in real life, but I now play a dev on TV (just like folks playing doctors on TV). The recent paradigm shift to a software defined universe sort of forced me to get better at code. To go 1 step further, I have worked with extremely large enterprises and talked to big development team

I know a lot of us are using more command line based tools these days. Azure PowerShell is one of the tools I tend to use often if I need to provision infrastructure quickly. When the cmdlets moved from AzureRM to Az, a number of us had problems with a borked machine that couldn't authenticate to Azure or provision any resources. Then subsequent updates may have caused some problems. So what do you do if Azure PowerShell doesn't do things like authenticate, provision resource

With my first blog post inside this series (affectionately named the same title as above, except with "Part 1" being the focus), I enabled SSH on my VCSA. The hope here was that now I could log into my VCSA via SSH. Once SSH'd in the box, I would be able to run some commands that enable me to change my password and subsequently log into the web GUI to disable the password expiration of 90 days. I know a lot of us have these enterprise rules and guidelines that probably requir

...stay with me here...I know I have many years of managing VMware infrastructure as part of my technical career. Guess what changed in 2016? I started using vSphere less and less, which shows sometimes. I figured this series of posts might prove helpful for folks that may find themselves in a similar situation. First off, I run vSphere 7 at home in my lab. My home lab consists of 4 Intel NUC's (NUC10i7FNH) acting as ESXi hosts, a Dell Precision T5600 as a 5th ESXi host, a bu

As someone who is writing more and more code, I have been trying to embrace Visual Studio Code (VS Code) over Visual Studio (I can hear my developer friends cheering me on). The extensions + overall engineering have really stepped up their proverbial game in recent months/years. I have to say I'm regularly amazed and figured this post might be helpful for those of us who are dabbling, fiddling, and trying to make themselves better with code or even cloud. The integrated termi

With my head in the cloud the last almost 5 years, it may seem like sort of an anti-pattern to even think about VMware running on Azure, right? Know that it took me a few minutes to wrap my head around what running Azure VMware Solution would be like, let alone conceptually analyzing the reasons a company would choose to lean on running VMware in Azure. When my current job opportunity popped up, I spent some time analyzing everything I had seen during my years as a Cloud Solu