While most developers use Azure DevOps API for basic operations, they barely scratch the surface of its true capabilities. Many teams stick to simple API calls for work item updates or build triggers, missing out on powerful automation opportunities that could save hours of manual work. In fact, the Azure DevOps REST API offers extensive […]
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Cloud Instance Backup / VM Backup strategies
Backing up your cloud instances is important for various reasons. Cloud instances can experience data loss due to a variety of reasons, including hardware failure, software bugs, and cyber attacks. Backing up your instances can help protect against data loss by providing a copy of your data that you can use to restore your instance […]
Holistic Backup Solution for AWS – Veeam Backup
Veeam is a very popular backup and disaster recovery solution for VMware and Hyper-V environments. The public cloud migration rate is soaring but cloud native backup solutions are not easy as on-prem backup solutions. This is primarily because each object has associated with cost in the cloud. So the product must be intelligent to calculate […]
Jenkins Integration – Terraform IaC Pipeline Setup
How to integrate Terraform IaC (Infrastructure as Code) into Jenkins? Cloud infrastructure offers great agility and flexibility but you need the right toolsets to manage the power of public cloud platforms. To operate in the public cloud efficiently, You need to treat infrastructure as code (IaC). IaC eliminates the manual interaction required to configure Cloud […]
What is Infrastructure as Code ? IaC
Define all your IT infrastructure as Code instead of creating it manually. So that Infrastructure resources can be easily re-created or replicated. Managing IT infrastructure might be a hard job in the past but not now. In the past, system administrators have to manually manage and configure all of the hardware and software that was […]
Azure tag automation using an Initiative definition
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 […]
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 […]