How fast you can spin up a VM in Azure Cloud? Have you experienced an azure cloud shell and terraform builder tool? Let’s quickly spin up a Linux VM using terraform code from Azure Cloud Shell. There are 100 ways to build the VM but this article just shows the robustness of the terraform and […]
How to use Terraform from Azure Cloud Shell?
How to use terraform from Azure cloud shell? Do we need to install an additional package to use terraform? Nope. Azure provides commonly used CLI tools including Linux shell interpreters, PowerShell modules, Azure tools, text editors, source control, build tools (ex: terraform), and more in cloud shell. This makes azure builders to quickly deploy Azure […]
How to enable Azure Cloud Shell – bash / Powershell?
How to launch bash or PowerShell from the Azure portal? Azure offers cloud based shell access for advanced users almost from every corner. Microsoft maintains a cloud shell with commonly used CLI tools including Linux shell interpreters, PowerShell modules, Azure tools, text editors, source control, build tools, container tools, database tools, and more. Azure Cloud […]
Azure native backup vs Azure disk snapshot
Azure offers multiple methods to protect the data of Linux and Windows VM’s. But it’s up to the business to determine what kind of backup needed. This article will debate over azure native backup vs Azure disk snapshot. Azure native backup uses a recovery service vault to store the data. What is the recovery service […]
How to generate a CSR file to get a valid SSL certificate?
How to generate a CSR (certificate signing request) file to produce a valid certificate for web-server or any application? This article will walk you through how to create a CSR file using the OpenSSL command line, how to include SAN (Subject Alternative Names) along with the common name, how to remove PEM password from the generated […]
How Will Business Intelligence Be Applied in the Next Decade?
In a September article here, we made note of the staggering projected growth rate of the business intelligence market. The article was titled ‘Global Business Intelligence Market to Be Worth $147.19 Billion in 2025’ and cited a Market Watch report predicting a CAGR of 26.98% between now and that time. In the same article, we pointed to […]
git – SCM on Windows – Install and Configure
Git repositories can be managed using git-bash on windows operating systems. Git for Windows provides a BASH emulation used to run Git from the command line. *NIX users will feel right at home, as the BASH emulation behaves just like the “git” command in LINUX environments. As Windows users commonly expect graphical user interfaces, Git […]
How to use Desktop GitHub Client – Clone and Update Codes
GitHub is a web-based version control platform to manage the codes. GitHub continuously offers many tools to manage the codes effectively. Desktop GitHub Client is one of the tools which can be used to manage the code from your laptop/desktop effectively. The desktop client can be installed with normal user privileges. You could also upload […]
Cleanup all Docker containers using a single command
How to stop all the docker containers? How to destroy docker containers quickly? How to remove all the downloaded docker images? Very often we deploy the containers for testing and spend time cleaning up the containers one by one. This article will provide quick commands to stop all the running containers and delete them quickly. […]
Install and configure Git client on RHEL 7 /CentOS 7?
Install and configure Git client on RHEL 7 /CentOS 7? Git client is a very useful command-line utility to manage git repository from Linux. Git is the most popular distributed version control and source code management system. This article will walk you through how to install git on CentOS 7/ RHEL 7. It also walks […]