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How to Optimize Compute Cost on Azure

March 24, 2020March 24, 2020Esmaeil SarabadaniAzureLeave a comment

Users are looking for ways to optimize their compute cost on Azure. When we talk about compute costs, we are mostly referring to virtual machines. Here are 5 questions you should ask yourself before spinning up new virtual machines in your environment and steps to take to help you reduce your VM cost: Q1 –…

What is Azure Managed Identity? System-Assigned vs. User-Assigned

March 19, 2020March 19, 2020Esmaeil SarabadaniAzure / DevOpsLeave a comment

Service Principals (SP) on Azure used to be one of the most common ways to authenticate your code/app to Azure. The problem with SPs was that you need to use a client ID and secret to get authenticated. That was problematic because you would potentially expose your credentials in your code which is a security…

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 Access Control and Permissions Simplified

December 18, 2019December 19, 2019Esmaeil SarabadaniUncategorizedLeave a comment

Microsoft has very good documentation for ADLS Gen2 access controls here. However there is still sometimes confusion around the different layers of permissions and how they work in combination, and this article is an attempt to simplify that. In general there are three different kinds of permissions for your data inside an ADLS Gen2 Storage…

Receive alerts from Azure when a new Windows VM is created using Log Analytics

December 10, 2018December 10, 2018Esmaeil SarabadaniAzure / DevOps / UncategorizedLeave a comment

You are an admin to many subscriptions, and for auditing purposes, you need to know when a new Windows VM on any one of your subscriptions has been created by other people. You might have to ask the creators about the type of license they have used on this Windows VM and that’s why you…

Experimental Languages Support on Azure Function App

December 10, 2018December 10, 2018Esmaeil SarabadaniAzureLeave a comment

Microsoft introduced experimental languages on Azure Function App with runtime 1.x and that meant support for Python, TypeScript, PHP, Batch, Bash, and PowerShell. However, support for PHP, Batch, Bash, and Powershell was dropped with the release of runtime version 2.x. Of course this is the status as of today and I cannot guarantee if it…

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My name is Esmaeil Sarabadani. I'm a technology enthusiast keeping my sanity by generating content... In the case here I mostly write about cloud computing... Beside technology, I also have a passion for art, film making, and photography. So I occasionally write about them too... All opinions expressed here are my own...

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  • How to Optimize Compute Cost on Azure
  • What is Azure Managed Identity? System-Assigned vs. User-Assigned
  • Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 Access Control and Permissions Simplified
  • Receive alerts from Azure when a new Windows VM is created using Log Analytics
  • Experimental Languages Support on Azure Function App

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