In the previous post we have seen how we can create custom images of Microsoft Azure VM’s without going through the painful process of downloading and uploading large blob. Please follow the link to for simple instructions. The custom VHD’s will be created on the same storage account where your vm is hosted from but… Read More Create Microsoft Azure VMs(Windows) from Custom VHDs
Recently I have been asked from the community about how we can capture images like we do in AWS for creating the custom images . First, the answer is simple but really confusing because using Microsoft products for so long people might think I would direct them using the UI. But I didn’t because you… Read More Capture Custom VM Images (VHDs) for Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines
This is a fine sunny day, writing a blogpost siting in my garden is really very relaxing. This is a simple blog post, how to recover the azure sql databases if it’s been accidently delete or in some other manner. Below script will help you to restore the databases. Also, I had a comment on… Read More How to restore Deleted Azure SQL Databases – Microsoft Azure
During the weekend I thought creating an azure resource manager based packer image should be easier and simpler. But it turned out to be lot more tweaking than I anticipated. At the end its all worth it, here are the detailed steps to get things work if you are interested in this route. To be… Read More 101 – Packer by HashiCorp with Azure Resource Manager by Microsoft