Jeroen Trimbach

A race report describing my experience running my first marathon, the TCS Amsterdam Marathon.

Cloud-init is a popular open-source tool that automates the initial setup of a cloud instance, such as an Azure Linux virtual machine (VM). It allows administrators to define custom configurations, such as users, disk layout, and network settings, that will be applied to the instance when it is first launched. This way, you can quickly and consistently provision new instances with your desired configurations, eliminating the need for manual setup and configuration. In this post, we will explore how to use cloud-init on Azure Linux VMs to configure your instances according to your needs.

My preferred way of passing in parameters in PowerShell!

Lets dig into some of the ways we can export the monthly costs of the resources the we have deployed in Microsoft Azure.

In this post I will be explaining how you can utilize Bicep (an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) language) for creating and/or updating the security rules on a Network Security Group (NSG) in Microsoft Azure. I have also shared a script which can be used to export a deployment template based on the security rules configured on an existing NSG resource so that you can use that for further deployments.

Planning work items in Azure Boards can be a tedious task. In this post I will be explaining how you can plan/create work items using Microsoft Excel. Using Excel you can easily add a large amount of items in an efficient manner.