CLOUDY MUSINGS

All code for this blog can be found here . I keep hearing more and more interest by customers I work with in exploring Cloud...

So there I was, ready to pull down a GitHub repo and get to work finishing a recent blog. I typed in the familiar command: git clone ...

All code for this blog can be found here . I've been trailblazing with Azure since 2016. Before 2016, I set up an Entra ID (formerly...

All code for this blog can be found here . So this is still relevant in 2025. Having worked at Microsoft, I always believed customers...

All code for this blog can be found here . So you went all-in on Spot VMs to save money, but now you’ve hit that dreaded eviction wall....

All code for this blog post can be found here . By now you’ve probably figured out I like to make things harder on myself before I make...

All code for this blog can be found here . Azure Update Manager promises to make patching easier. The idea is simple: assess your VMs,...

Shannon's Disclaimer: All code for this blog can be found here . I'm going to start putting together code based blogs with their own repo and will clean up older blog posts as time allows. If you spend enough time working in the cloud, you get used to things breaking in ways that make no sense. Case in point: the other day my Azure CLI on Windows decided it was going to stop working. I started in WSL because that is usually where things behave the best. I ran az login and ins

Often times I think the idea is not to confuse, but when you sort of pile on all the different services in Azure, some of the details get...

This post came from a customer conversation that started with a seemingly innocent question: “I’m using GRS for my storage accounts....

One of the joys of running a homelab is the constant reminder that technology never sits still. I'm currently in the middle of a massive...