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Some of the things I have done or not done, spent time on or not spent time, liked or not liked, tested or not tested, used hours on or just minutes on, changed or not changed, started to enjoy or changed my mind about, started and finished or started but not finished, found out or not found out yet, could be stored here.
It’s better to do one thing, than to think about two things (There’s a Japanese term, “ichigyo-zammai,” that basically means full concentration on a single act.)
Azure “good-to-know” about any VM, with example on SKU:General purpose virtual machine sizes:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/sizes-general
Checking VM stats on the Dv2 and DSv2-series:
| Size and vCPU |
| Memory GiB |
| Temp storage (SSD) GiB |
| Max temp storage throughput: IOPS/Read MBps/Write MBps |
| Max data disks |
| Throughput: IOPS |
| Max NICs |
| Expected network bandwidth |
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/dv2-dsv2-series
Good SKU for testing:
| Rg | az104-07-rg0 |
| Virtual macine name | az104testVM |
| Region | West Europe |
| Availability opt. | Availability zone, 1 |
| Image | Windows Server 2016 Datacenter -Gen2 |
| Size | B2s General purpose, 2 vcpu, 4 gib memory |
| User | Led89zepplin, [and the numbers/letters/signs for Caesar Cipher or not!? Who knows, Twitter does] |
| Public inbound port | Allow selected |
| Select inbound port | RDP, 3389 |
| Disk | Standard SSD, lrs |
| Network | Create all new and keep default or use existing |
| Management | Keep default |
| Advanced | Keep default |
| Tags | |
| Review + create | |
| Price | Price, 0.0769 AUD/hr |
#Remove all
Get-AzResourceGroup -Name ‘az104-07*’ | Remove-AzResourceGroup -Force -AsJob
Always have:
Git Bash and Azure Cli (even on Windows) you can then:
- 1 GIT
- 2 SSH
- 3 BASH
- 4 NANO
For SSH, Putty is amazing:
Linux (Linux System Admin Command):
https://www.javatpoint.com/linux-system-admin-commands
The day before tomorrow:
https://github.com/spawnmarvel
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LinuxFilesystemTreeOverview
https://certlogik.com/decoder/
Python and MS SQL:
import this
Code Style — The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python (python-guide.org)
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/sql-server/?view=sql-server-ver15
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/?view=sql-server-ver15
Game or fun:
MS Azure
Azure documentation
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/?produ
Connect to Azure using Powershell (Module -Name Az must be installed)
# $PSVersionTable.PSVersion
# Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser
# Install-Module -Name Az -Scope CurrentUser -Repository PSGallery -Force
# Take a coffee, this takes time, answer Yx2 and wait, when done, close/open Powershell and verify module
# Minimum Powershell v is 5.1
# Get-InstalledModule -Name Az
Connect AzAccount
# or
Connect AzAccount -TenantId The-tenant-id-we-copied-from-azure-ad
$rg = “testit2-rg”
Get-AzResource -ResourceGroupName $rg
AZ Powershell Reference
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/azure/?view=azps-6.3.0&viewFallbackFrom=azps-5.2.0
Connect to Azure from Az CLI (must be installed) using Git Bash (must be installed) :
az login
# If that does not work, go to Portal.azure.com, Azure Active Directory, Properties and you will see the tenant id, cp it
az login –tenant The-tenant-id-we-copied-from-azure-ad
rg=”testit2-rg”
az resource list –resource-group $rg
AZ CLI Reference
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/
More stuff on the next page…