automation
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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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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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What DevOps Means to Me
I’ve written previously about various aspects of DevOps. I’ve also been interviewed on my perspective of the field. This section (currently a work-in-progress) is aimed at putting together all these little references and insights to form a holistic view that might best… Continue reading
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Ansible Playbooks – Externalization and Deduplication
Developers who understand the concepts of modularity and deduplication should immediately recognize the power behind being able to include settings and commands from external files. It is seriously counter-productive to maintain multiple scripts or playbooks that have large blocks… Continue reading
The DevOps Joint 