CLOUDY MUSINGS

Let me tell you about a moment that happens to almost everyone working with Azure networking. You're designing a network, you discover service endpoints, and you think "Great! This keeps my traffic on Microsoft's backbone instead of the public internet." You enable them for Storage, SQL, maybe Key Vault. Everything makes sense. Then you stumble across service endpoint policies and think "Oh cool, I can add more control to all these services!" You start setting them up for SQ

In my last post , I talked about what’s changing with Azure’s Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) APIs and why the old Usage Details endpoint is being retired. Now it’s time to roll up our sleeves! If your FinOps automations rely on Microsoft.Commerce/UsageAggregates, you’ll need to migrate those scripts to use the Exports API or Cost Details API. This post covers the exact code changes you need to make in PowerShell and Python (typically what I see most often with my customers and what I t

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

In keeping with my recent UniFi theme, I wanted to take some time out and showcase that you can update your UDM Base or Pro via SSH. I'm...