Passion for all things Cloud Technology.
PowerShell helps me better understand the internal workings of complex Cloud based operations that in many instances have a lot of moving parts. Better understanding helps determine ways to automate these operations that could otherwise take much time and repetition to accomplish.I developed the following Deploy-ManagedEncryptedLinuxVM PowerShell function to automate the provisioning, installation of LAMP…
One of the more relevant and cost saving tasks when working in Azure Cloud is fast and efficient shutdown and startup of virtual machines. Some of the options available could be to : a) Iterate through a csv list of VMs or Resource Group of VMs and serially shutdown or startup the VMs. This can…
The new Azure Invoice API enables Azure Subscription users with the appropriate role assignments to download and view current and past Invoices programmatically. Till now, this was only possible via the Azure Management Portal. For Subscription users to be able to download these invoices, the account administrator needs to enable the “Access to Invoice” feature…
I developed the following PowerShell function to automate the creation and removal of Azure Resource Groups based on Azure AD Group membership in a Demo Azure subscription. The script is deployed as a Runbook in an Azure Automation account and scheduled to run once a day. As new users are added to a designated Azure Active Directory security…
Chinny Chukwudozie, Cloud Solutions.