I am working with a customer that is looking to deploy Windows containers from Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to Azure Container Instances (ACI) nodes. In this blog post, I’ll explain how this can be done. We’ll start with a quick why somebody would want to do this, how this can be done and then transition […]

First look at GitHub Codespaces
GitHub Codespaces is a way to get a fully powered Visual Studio Code experience in the browser. It’s your cloud-enabled development machine, without needing anything but a web browser. It’s currently in beta and I got access a couple weeks ago. Today, I wanted to give it a spin. Rather than provide a simple demo, […]

Using Terraform to create VNET service endpoints
Recently, I got a question on how to setup VNET service endpoints using Terraform. This blog post is a quick show and tell on how to set that up. For reference, a full example is available on my GitHub. Given it’s HashiConf at the time of writing, this seems like a good time to publish […]

Kubernetes GitOps using Azure Arc
Lately, I’ve been learning more about Azure Arc. As part of this learning, I’ve been contributing to a great GitHub repo that contains a number of example scenarios for Azure Arc. Most of these examples are fully automated, so you can learn about Arc even more quickly. My last learning experience was how to leverage […]

Changing Azure disk SKUs using Azure Resource Graph and the Azure Python SDK
I was recently working with a customer who needed to make mass changes to Azure disks (we’re talking couple 100 disks). The disks were part of a demo environment that was very infrequently used, but when it was used it needed to perform well. When the demo was spun up, the disks needed to be […]