DevOps
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Crafting a PowerShell Script for Azure Resource Utilization: A Collaborative Coding Journey
The project involved creating a PowerShell script to analyze Azure resource utilization, focusing on CPU usage for VMs. Initially simple, it evolved into a flexible tool supporting multiple resource types, error logging, and compatibility with PowerShell 5.1. Collaborative coding emphasized… Continue reading
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Get-AzureResourceReport – A Powershell Script to Query Azure Resource Utilization
Synopsis Generates a report on Azure resource utilization or idle time for specified Resource Groups with error logging. Description This script retrieves metrics (CPU, network) from Azure Monitor for Virtual Machines, App Services, or SQL Databases,allowing users to filter by… Continue reading
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Understanding File Management in Python on Linux with lsof and watch
Using ‘lsof’ and ‘watch’ to monitor open files in your scripts and programs. Continue reading
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‘hi’ shows its colors
Information about the latest features of the ‘hi’ Host Information tool, including logging, state tracking, and color customization. Continue reading
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Introducing ‘hi’ – the Host Information tool
Are you a fan of the Linux command-line? I know I am. Some folks love it. Some folks would rather a GUI interface of some kind. There are many reasons why some developers or *nix admins love the command line.… Continue reading
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Exercising Command Line Skills: A Deep Dive into Network Connections on Linux
For most, the command line serves as a mere instrument. For me, it’s a passion, if not quite an obsession. I have been a fairly consistent command line junkie for well over 20 years. However, I’ve been feeling a bit… Continue reading
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The OpenTF Manifesto: A Turning Point in Open Source Licensing and Its Impact on the DevOps Community
Why Should DevOps Professionals Care About the OpenTF Manifesto and Terraform’s Licensing Change? Setting the Stage: A Sudden Shift in Terraform’s Licensing In the wake of HashiCorp’s sudden decision to switch Terraform’s license from the Mozilla Public License (MPL) to… Continue reading
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Getting Started with Chef Inspec on Azure Cloud Shell
Why Inspec? From the Chef Inspec documentation overview: “Chef InSpec is an open-source framework for testing and auditing your applications and infrastructure. Chef InSpec works by comparing the actual state of your system with the desired state that you express… Continue reading
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Checking OS Versions Across Multiple Hosts with Ansible
Often when you are maintaining a large number of servers, it is useful to be able to query those systems all at once to find out information like IP address, configured hostnames, and even the OS version. In this… Continue reading
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rbenv – The Ruby Environment Management Tool
In the past, fun with Perl.. When I was using perl as my primary development language, I had a platform of tools in place to make my perl development fun and productive. This included tools like Perl::Dancer, DBIx::Class, cpanm, and… Continue reading
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