The complexity of deploying and managing server workloads is a major challenge facing IT organizations. Although these issues have existed since the dawn of servers and the datacenter, IT pros are ...

Developers and administrators have many ways to deploy resources to Microsoft Azure. But when deploying many resources at once that consist of a full "stack" of resources, Azure Resource Manager (ARM) ...

Michael Levan is an Azure and DevOps trainer at CBT Nuggets and the founder and chief engineer of CloudDev.Engineering. Azure Resource Manager templates are text files created in the JavaScript Object ...

There are lots of ways to create MSSQL databases via PowerShell. We could invoke a T-SQL query using the CREATE DATABASE term, we could write some code to use the [Create() method with SMO] or, if ...

With Azure, your infrastructure is code, so you can manage it from the Azure CLI or from third-party tools The more Azure grows, the harder it is to manage through its portal. After all, graphical ...

Technical preview of Microsoft's hybrid cloud platform drives just like Azure, drawing on the same APIs, tools, and templates Microsoft’s latest attempt to square the circle of on-premises IT and ...

One of the big advantages of using cloud IaaS is the convenience; you can spin up a VM whenever you need it, scale it, pause it or throw it away. But large organisations want the VMs they use in the ...

Michael Levan is an Azure and DevOps trainer at CBT Nuggets and the founder and chief engineer of CloudDev.Engineering. Follow him on Twitter @TheNJDevOpsGuy. Azure Resource Manager templates are text ...