Ansible – How to Prepare template using Variables ? Jinja2
Ansible is very flexible configuration management tool and offers wide range of options to perform certain tasks. I am very often use Jinja2 template option to complete the following tasks. Create...
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How to upload directories to GitHub / GitLab repository ?
How can I upload folders/directories to GitHub/GitLab repository? GitHub is a web-based version control platform to manage the codes. Git platform simplifies the process to collaborate with multiple...
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How to use Desktop GitHub Client – Clone and Update Codes
GitHub is a web-based version control platform to manage the codes. GitHub continuously offers many tools to manage the codes effectively. Desktop GitHub Client is one of the tools which can be used...
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How Will Business Intelligence Be Applied in the Next Decade?
In a September article here, we made note of the staggering projected growth rate of the business intelligence market. The article was titled ‘Global Business Intelligence Market to Be Worth $147.19...
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Azure native backup vs Azure disk snapshot
Azure offers multiple methods to protect the data of Linux and Windows VM’s. But it’s up to the business to determine what kind of backup needed. This article will debate over azure native backup vs...
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How to enable Azure Cloud Shell – bash / Powershell?
How to launch bash or PowerShell from the Azure portal? Azure offers cloud based shell access for advanced users almost from every corner. Microsoft maintains a cloud shell with commonly used CLI...
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How to use Terraform from Azure Cloud Shell?
How to use terraform from Azure cloud shell? Do we need to install an additional package to use terraform? Nope. Azure provides commonly used CLI tools including Linux shell interpreters, PowerShell...
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Azure Cloud Shell – Create a Linux VM using Terraform?
How fast you can spin up a VM in Azure Cloud? Have you experienced an azure cloud shell and terraform builder tool? Let’s quickly spin up a Linux VM using terraform code from Azure Cloud Shell. There...
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How to Enable Azure native backup for Linux & Windows VM?
How to enable Azure native backup for Linux and Windows instances in Azure? To enable the Azure native backup, you need to set up a recovery service vault. Recovery service vault is an online-storage...
View ArticleCleanup all Docker containers using a single command
How to stop all the docker containers? How to destroy docker containers quickly? How to remove all the downloaded docker images? Very often we deploy the containers for testing and spend time cleaning...
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git – SCM on Windows – Install and Configure
Git repositories can be managed using git-bash on windows operating systems. Git for Windows provides a BASH emulation used to run Git from the command line. *NIX users will feel right at home, as the...
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How to generate a CSR file to get a valid SSL certificate?
How to generate a CSR (certificate signing request) file to produce a valid certificate for web-server or any application? This article will walk you through how to create a CSR file using the OpenSSL...
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Azure Backup – Recover VM from Crash/ Accidental delete
Backup plays a crucial role in infrastructure management. Backup could be anything like flat files, Operating system files, database files and application files, etc. Backup also needs to be...
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Ansible Tower License expired? How to renew it?
Ansible tower requires a valid license to run any job. Red Hat License management is much easier if you directly manage from the Red Hat subscription portal. But in some cases, you might receive the...
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How to update the Ansible Tower Inventory using API?
Ansible Tower offers various REST API to integrate with other tools. I had come across the scenario where the playbook needs to update tower inventory after provisioning cloud instance. tower-cli is...
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Configure Application/Crash consistent backup for VM – Azure
How to configure application-consistent backup on Azure native backup? Backup is extremely important for any services that you use on the cloud. Azure native backup takes VM snapshot and transfers to...
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Exclude disks from Azure VM snapshot backup
How to exclude a specific set of disks from Azure native backup? I had the same question for a long time. Finally, Azure Backup now supports selective disk backup and restore. Why should I backup the...
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What is the Availability zone on Azure?
Microsoft Azure offers multiple high availability options to meet customer requirements. Such options really help to build an application with higher SLA levels for their customers. Azure’s...
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Availability set vs Availability zone in azure
In the Azure world, very often people confuse themselves between availability set and availability zone. Off-course both the technologies are designed to keep the application highly available from a...
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Azure – What is Proximity Placement Groups in Azure? Reduce latency?
Would you like to reduce the latency between virtual machines? Have you heard of the proximity placement group? Microsoft Azure is growing rapidly so the datacenters in each region. A proximity...
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