Revert Azure Virtual Machine with Snapshots

I recently prepared a Lightning Demo for the 2021 PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit, which thankfully was a pre-recorded session and not live. This gave me the chance to practice, and rehearse, and fine tune my content. I used a virtual machine in Azure to perform the demo which gave me two great benefits. One: I was preparing the demo from a base Windows 10 machine (or pretty close to it), so I was pretty confident that my material would work for anyone else....

April 26, 2021 · 2 min · Me

Serverless tagging with Event Grid and Azure Functions

Azure AutoTagger is a lightweight, low-cost serverless solution that can easily be deployed to an Azure subscription. Once deployed Azure AutoTagger monitors for ResourceWriteSucess events within the subscription and triggers an Azure Function to automatically apply a LastModifiedTimestamp and LastModifiedBy tag. Any organization should develop and implement it’s own tagging strategy (Azure’s Cloud Adoption Framework is a great start). This solution can be a complimentary piece to a more comprehensive tagging strategy, and can be useful when deployed to test/development/sandbox subscriptions where resources sometimes have a habit of sticking around longer than they were intended....

March 1, 2021 · 7 min · Me