OverviewIn Ansible, there is a static inventory and a dynamic inventory. In a cloud world, it is often the case that Virtual Machines are spinning up and down in response to business demands. In this case, static inventories that list the IP Addresses and/or host names will not serve the needs of your business. Dynamic inventories are the solution to this problem. … [Read more...] about Ansible Dynamic Inventories in Azure – Part 1
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ACR Tasks to Automatically Update Azure Web App Containers – Part 3
In Part 1, we looked at cloning a sample Docker Container based on Python Django. We tested this Container Image by running it to ensure it operates correctly. We then created a new GitHub Repository and pushed our Docker Container Source Code into your own GitHub Repository.In Part 2, we looked at creating an ACR, pushing our image up to ACR, and setting up Azure Web … [Read more...] about ACR Tasks to Automatically Update Azure Web App Containers – Part 3
ACR Tasks to Automatically Update Azure Web App Containers – Part 2
In Part 1, we looked at cloning a sample Docker Container based on Python Django. We tested this Container Image by running it to ensure it operates correctly. We then created a new GitHub Repository and pushed our Docker Container Source Code into your own GitHub Repository.In this second part, we take a look at creating an ACR, pushing our image up to ACR, and setting … [Read more...] about ACR Tasks to Automatically Update Azure Web App Containers – Part 2
ACR Tasks to Automatically Update Azure Web App Containers – Part 1
One of the features Azure Web App provides is to leverage containers for the website you are hosting. The offering is officially called, "Web App for Containers." This provides several benefits:Easily deploy and run containers applications that scale with your businessUse a fully-managed platform to perform infrastructure maintenanceTake advantage of build-in auto scaling … [Read more...] about ACR Tasks to Automatically Update Azure Web App Containers – Part 1
Automate Azure Disk Encryption for Windows Virtual Machines
There's two methods for Encryption-At-Rest for Virtual Machines. Those methods are Storage Service Encryption and Azure Disk Encryption. I won't go into too much detail as to the differences and what Encryption-At-Rest is as all that is documented very well here.The high-level is that Storage Service Encryption (which is enabled by default and cannot be disabled) encrypts … [Read more...] about Automate Azure Disk Encryption for Windows Virtual Machines