Before we dive into the nitty-gritty details, let's clarify some essential concepts. Azure Storage, a cloud-based storage solution, is organized...
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Install Terraform on Windows for use in Command Prompt and PowerShell
Terraform from HashiCorp is provided as a command-line tool that must first be installed before it can be used. It's provided as a single executable...
Update Azure CLI from the command-line (az upgrade)
The Azure CLI can be updated from the command-line in Windows. The az upgrade command is used for this and it has a few options which are useful....
Azure CLI: Suppress Output for Silent Commands / Quiet Mode
The Azure CLI is really great for writing imperative scripts for automating Microsoft Azure resource management. Generally, the command output is...
Getting Started with GitHub CLI
The all-new GitHub CLI has shipped! This now brings the power of GitHub to your terminal, on Windows, macOS, and Linux. GitHub is giving us the...
Get Started with Azure DevOps Permissions On The CLI
Azure DevOps offers a rich set of fine-grained permissions. Unfortunately, the user interface only shows a few of them. When granting permissions...
Install Azure CLI on Windows with Winget
The Azure CLI is the command-line tool for working with Microsoft Azure resources, and grants you access to the CLI through both the Windows Command...
Add New Root User to Ubuntu Linux Server using Bash
When installing Ubuntu, or any Linux distro, a root user will be created. However, there are many times when you need to create additional users...
Azure CLI: Create and Manage Service Principals
When an application needs to authenticate with Azure AD you can't really just give it a username and password. To authenticate and authorize an...
Azure Kung Fu Toolkit
Welcome to Az Kung Fu, grasshopper! Scripting is the only way to ensure that your environments are the same every time and remove the risk of human...
Az Kung Fu VM – Master Tools for Azure Administrators
Have you ever spent hours building a machine to use as an admin workstation for Azure? What about installing the Windows Subsystem for Linux? Well,...
Azure CLI Kung-Fu Tips and Tricks
The last week has been a blur because I didn’t sleep. I spent days helping a client restore every single VM that had running in Azure (about...
Azure CLI: List and Set Azure Subscription
To list and set the Azure Subscription to run Azure CLI commands against is an important step in command-line scripting. To do this, there are a...
Custom Azure Sphere Windows Terminal Developer Command Prompt
When the Azure Sphere SDK is installed on Windows 10, it sets up an "Azure Sphere Developer Command Prompt" that can be run to use the...
Introducing the Azure Cloud Shell
The Azure Cloud Shell has been out for some time now, as an embedded Bash and PowerShell command-line shell / terminal within the Azure Portal. It...
Microsoft Azure IoT Extension for Azure CLI 2.0
Microsoft has been investing heavily in the pretty much every aspect of Microsoft Azure, and the IoT (Internet of Things) space is not being left...
Azure CLI: Quickly Start / Stop ALL VMs
You can easily Start and Stop Virtual Machines (VMs) through the Azure Portal. Previously, I've written about the importance of Stopping unused...
Azure CLI 2.0: Make Bash Output More Readable
It can be extremely useful to use the Azure CLI to manage / manipulate your Azure resources from the command-line. However, many of the commands...
Azure CLI 2.0: Reset / Change Azure VM Password
It's very easy to spin up a Virtual Machine (VM) in Microsoft Azure. You can do it through the Azure Portal or with scripting tools such as the...
Install Azure CLI on macOS
The Azure CLI is the cross-platform, command-line tool for managing and automating cloud resources in Microsoft Azure. The tool is supported across...