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Enable diagnostic settings for Azure Storage to export logs to Log Analytics Workspace using Terraform

Kosta Kondaurov — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 15:30:08 +0000

I haven’t work with the Terraform for a while and didn’t know about recent updates in Azure API released at the end of 2023. If you are like me, in short, this update allows you configure settings for Azure Storage sub-services separately. Private Endpoints, retention settings and diagnostic settings have to be …

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Unlock Terraform state on Azure storage

Kosta Kondaurov — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 14:33:05 +0000

I’ve been in an awkward situation once, when I was provisioning Azure resources using Terraform via Azure DevOps pipeline. Pipeline stuck with the provisioning and I cancelled the apply step. The state file got locked. As it is stored on Azure Blob Storage in a dedicated container and only the Service Principal …

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Provision Azure Traffic Manager with Terraform

Kosta Kondaurov — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 12:22:29 +0000

These days Terraform is the infrastructure as a code standard (IaC). Terraform can be used with various platforms, while I am writing about Azure here. One can provision almost any resource in Azure by Terraform. Terraform is a great tool for a resource provisioning automation and a cornerstone for DevOps. HashiCorp develops …

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Azure File Sync: Synchronize files with your own schedule

Kosta Kondaurov — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 09:30:55 +0000

When I was implementing Azure Storage File Sync solution, I found that it worked pretty quick with the files to be uploaded from a server to the cloud storage. The reason for it is the agent installed on the server that checks for file changes. Unfortunately, when a file needs to be …

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Azure Cost Savings

Kosta Kondaurov — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 00:10:54 +0000

This article guides you with the options you have for savings with Azure. There are some for different size environments and goals.

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Find Azure Linux image ID or URN using PowerShell

Kosta Kondaurov — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 09:31:48 +0000

One day, I was playing with Chef test kitchen in Azure. There was only one option – to use azurerm driver. There was heaps of examples for Ubuntu or Windows server, but I needed SUSE. It is not a big deal to provision from Azure portal, but how can I do that with …

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Azure Linux VM performance tuning

Kosta Kondaurov — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 10:51:16 +0000

I was looking for options, what I can do in Azure to speed up (optimize) a stack of servers for one business application. They were built approximately 2 years ago, and some features were not available at that time. Good that machines running on quite fresh version of Linux that has a …

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