Azure - Category - Ryland DeGregory

Using Azure Storage Tables REST API with PowerShell

xxxx — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 16:52:30 -0500

If you’ve interacted with Azure Storage using PowerShell, you’ve probably come across the AzTable community module. But, given this module’s developer abandonment, to reduce reliance on third-party packages, and to enable modern authentication, you can interact directly with Azure Tables using its REST API.

Using Azure Application Insights SDK with PowerShell

xxxx — Sat, 28 Aug 2021 12:41:08 -0400

Azure Application Insights is Microsoft’s Application Performance Monitoring (APM) service built on top of Azure Monitor. Unfortunately, PowerShell is not one of the officially supported languages for the Application Insights SDK. But, it does work, and is actually pretty simple to set up.

Identify Azure Orphaned Volumes

xxxx — Sun, 06 Jun 2021 16:12:08 -0400

Detecting orphaned volumes (disks which are not attached to any virtual machine) can become a challenging endeavor, especially when faced with an environment containing thousands of virtual machines. Luckily, Azure Resource Graph allows users to easily identify orphaned volumes across their entire Azure estate.

Export Spotify Library and Playlists to Azure

xxxx — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 18:05:18 -0400

After years of being an avid Spotify library and playlist curator, I have on more than one occasion worried about the possibility of my library or playlists being lost. So, I decided to export them for my own personal backup using PowerShell and Azure, and will show you how you can too.

Rename Azure VM

xxxx — Fri, 22 May 2020 18:28:52 -0400

Azure doesn’t let you rename Virtual Machine resources after provisioning. Here’s how to fix it.

Setting up Github Actions

xxxx — Wed, 06 May 2020 17:10:04 -0400

Everyone in the software & IT industry knows GitHub, home to “the world’s largest community of developers”.

Blogging with Hugo and Azure: Part 2

xxxx — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 18:06:58 -0400

When developing software, or creating a website, there are important metrics to consider when evaluating the success of the product. These include consistency and cadence of releases, number of failures per change, and overall availability.

Blogging with Hugo and Azure: Part 1

xxxx — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 06:18:52 -0400

I’ve been wanting to stand-up a personal blog for a while now, but never found a framework and hosting solution that excited me. I tried the age-old WordPress blog, but it felt so dated and bloated that I didn’t enjoy using it for simple blogging.