These days I’ve been researching some mechanism to find out when a new instance has been associated to the load balancer in Azure Web Apps, ready to serve your content. I’ve used Application Initialization Module, a module of Internet Information Services that allows you…
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Eclipse Che en Microsoft Azure
Si has estado atento estos días a los anuncios durante la EclipseCon habrás leído que se ha lanzado un nuevo IDE web llamado Eclipse Che. Como no podía ser de otra forma, he estado jugando con el mismo, viendo cómo sería posible hospedarlo en…
Eclipse Che on Microsoft Azure
If you’ve been following the EclipseCon these days you‘ve read a new web IDE called Eclipse Che has been launched. As it could not be otherwise, I‘ve been playing with it, seeing how it would be possible to host it on Microsoft Azure….
Microsoft Azure Batch: cloud batch processing
In every work we have those batch processes that require longer than other business tasks: billing, rendering of images, reporting (payroll, calculations, forms) and a long etcetera. They are that kind of tasks at night, carrying time to process or who need a high–performance…
How to remove yourself from a Microsoft Azure subscription
There are occasions in which you are a co-administrator of an Azure account for a specific task. The truth is that, after a while, you can finish with different associated subscriptions, which can pose one inconvenience more than anything else. As…
Azure automation: delete empty resource groups automatically
I like to keep my Microsoft Azure subscription clean, but sometimes there are mismatches between the new and the old portal, or even when you remove resources you can leave resource groups completely emptied, making your list of resource groups to grow when in fact there is nothing…
Create your own artifacts for Azure DevTest Labs
In a previous post I told you the new Azure DevTest Labs service (still in preview) , which allows you to create test and development environments for your team. One of the options within the lab is the possibility to enable your own artifacts (applications and tasks)…
Use Vagrant with Microsoft Azure
For several days, I’ve been playing with Vagrant, the popular tool that lets you create any environment based on virtual machines quickly and replicable. It’s an Open Source project that is compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux and that it really…
Azure DevTest Lab: your development and test cloud environments
One of the new services introduced during the Connect(); event was Azure DevTest Labs, which is one of the anticipated by many. When we talk about environments of development and testing on local machines we always see the same drawbacks: the time that it takes to get those environments,…
CORS Error downloading fonts from the Azure CDN
One of the advantages of locating static files on Azure Storage is the improvement in the performance of the web site, since it becomes one source more in order to download resources by the browser (by default, a web browser is able to download approximately 6…
Why do you have two access keys for Azure Storage?
On more than one occasion developers do not see the sense to have two keys for an Azure Storage account when they always use the first one to its developments. The truth is that I have found that most of the…
Add-AzureAccount without prompt: authenticating and automating scripts in PowerShell
If you’re working with Microsoft Azure and you’re performing tasks through PowerShell you know that before performing any operation you must authenticate first. To do this you can download the publish settings file (Get-AzurePublishSettingsFile) or use Add-AzureAccount. If what you need is to automate tasks,…