Azure tag automation using an Initiative definition. In Cloud, Tags are metadata values that contain keys and values to help users organize and bring governance to cloud resources. Tagging is essential because it helps to efficiently optimize costs across cloud providers by assigning useful information to any resource within your cloud infrastructure. It also helps […]
Azure – How to enable hybrid benefit for windows servers?
Azure – How to enable hybrid benefit for windows servers? Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows Server allows you to use the on-premises Windows Server licenses (BYOL – Bring your license Model). Microsoft will reduce the instance prize based on your licensing choice. The default “licensing” type is PAYG (Pay as you go) for both Windows […]
Ansible – Validate Multiple conditions for a task
How to add multiple conditions for an ansible task? Here are some of the examples which will help you to pick the right one according to your need. Ansible is an open-source market-leading configuration management tool. It’s a complete automation tool that can be used from On-premise to cloud platforms. In some cases, ansible is […]
Top 5 – Azure Cost Savings Tips
How to reduce the cost in Azure Cloud? How many companies often complain about cloud spending is more than On-PERM operations? Even though why companies still prefer to move their operations to the cloud? With great power comes great responsibility. Many companies simply get onboarded in to cloud without proper governance and poor cost tracking […]
Azure – What is Proximity Placement Groups in Azure? Reduce latency?
Would you like to reduce the latency between virtual machines? Have you heard of the proximity placement group? Microsoft Azure is growing rapidly so the datacenters in each region. A proximity placement group is a new resource introduced by Microsoft to make a logical grouping of Azure compute resources to ensure VM’s are physically located […]
Availability set vs Availability zone in azure
In the Azure world, very often people confuse themselves between availability set and availability zone. Off-course both the technologies are designed to keep the application highly available from a single point of failure from various components or the complete zone itself. But both options are mutually exclusive. In other words, if you choose the availability […]
What is the Availability zone on Azure?
Microsoft Azure offers multiple high availability options to meet customer requirements. Such options really help to build an application with higher SLA levels for their customers. Azure’s availability zone can help you achieve your organization’s reliability goals. Availability Zones are unique physical locations with independent power, network, and cooling. Each Availability Zone is comprised of one […]
Exclude disks from Azure VM snapshot backup
How to exclude a specific set of disks from Azure native backup? I had the same question for a long time. Finally, Azure Backup now supports selective disk backup and restore. Why should I backup the disks which are not needed or not useful for any kind of recovery? System/applications might generate a lot of […]
Configure Application/Crash consistent backup for VM – Azure
How to configure application-consistent backup on Azure native backup? Backup is extremely important for any services that you use on the cloud. Azure native backup takes VM snapshot and transfers to vault for data protection. In the Azure native backup page, have you noticed three different kinds of restore points? Here are the three different […]
How to update the Ansible Tower Inventory using API?
Ansible Tower offers various REST API to integrate with other tools. I had come across the scenario where the playbook needs to update tower inventory after provisioning cloud instance. tower-cli is one of the methods to update/import inventory on ansible tower but at the time of writing this article, tower-cli is not supported by Red […]