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Estimating Your Azure Monthly Usage

2023-01-25T21:21:39+00:00

Estimating your monthly Azure usage can be a daunting task and may deter interested customers of Azure from ever using it, especially if you are new to cloud computing. Fortunately, Microsoft Azure provides a tool that allows us to estimate the monthly consumption of our potential workloads in Azure. With the Microsoft Azure Calculator, it's easy to figure out how much to spend on Azure each month. This article will discuss how to use the Azure Calculator to estimate your costs and help you plan your Azure usage. Open your preferred browser and head to the Azure pricing page (Pricing [...]

Estimating Your Azure Monthly Usage2023-01-25T21:21:39+00:00

Azure CycleCloud

2023-03-20T02:22:24+00:00

Azure CycleCloud Cheat Sheet Orchestrate and manage high-performance computing (HPC) environments on Azure. Enables you to provision infrastructure for HPC systems, deploy familiar HPC schedulers, and scale the infrastructure automatically to run jobs efficiently at any scale. Features Scheduler Agnostic - use standard HPC schedulers or extend CycleCloud autoscaling plugins to work with your own scheduler. Manage Compute Resources - manage VMs and scale sets to provide a set of compute resources to meet your workload requirements. Autoscale Resources - adjust cluster size and components automatically based on workload, availability, and time requirements. Monitor and Analyze - collect node-level metrics [...]

Azure CycleCloud2023-03-20T02:22:24+00:00

Azure Batch

2023-03-20T02:14:15+00:00

Azure Batch Cheat Sheet A service that runs large-scale parallel and high-performance computing (HPC) batch jobs in Azure. Allows you to run jobs in a group of Linux or Windows virtual machines. Components A task represents a unit of computation and a job is a collection of tasks. Job priority values range from the lowest priority to the highest priority. To specify certain limits for your jobs, you can use job constraints: Maximum wallclock time - tasks are terminated if the job runs longer than the specified time. Maximum number of task retries - if the task fails, it will [...]

Azure Batch2023-03-20T02:14:15+00:00

Azure Service Fabric

2023-06-23T19:41:53+00:00

Azure Service Fabric Cheat Sheet A distributed systems platform that helps package, deploy, and manage scalable and reliable microservices and containers. Build microservices and container-based applications using the programming language of your choice, including .NET Core 2.0, C #, and Java. It supports two types of microservices: Stateless - It does not maintain a mutable state outside a request and its response from the service such as protocol gateways and web proxies. Stateful - It maintains a mutable, authoritative state beyond the request and its response. Enables low-touch workflows to provision, deploy, patch, and monitor applications with Service Fabric application [...]

Azure Service Fabric2023-06-23T19:41:53+00:00

Azure Container Instances (ACI)

2023-11-30T14:11:37+00:00

Azure Container Instances Cheat Sheet Run containers without managing servers. For event-driven applications, quickly deploy from your container development pipelines, run data processing, and build jobs. Azure Container Instances is a regional service. Features Containers have less overhead than VMs and can be deployed consistently. All the dependencies for an application are included in the container image. Applications running in containers can be deployed easily to multiple operating systems and hardware platforms. Select an image source using Quickstart images, Azure Container Registry, and Docker Hub. Create a container image only when you need it and process data on-demand. You can [...]

Azure Container Instances (ACI)2023-11-30T14:11:37+00:00

Azure Container Registry

2023-06-26T04:35:48+00:00

Bookmarks Features Concepts Best Practices Tasks Tagging Network Security Pricing Azure Container Registry Cheat Sheet A service to manage your container images and related artifacts. ACR is a regional service. Features Keep track of current valid container images. Registries (SKUs) are available in three tiers: Basic, Standard, and Premium. You can use the geo-replication feature of Premium registries for advanced replication and container image distribution scenarios. Streamline building, testing, pushing, and deploying images to Azure with Azure Container Registry Tasks. ACR Tasks supports quick task, automatically triggered tasks, and [...]

Azure Container Registry2023-06-26T04:35:48+00:00

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

2024-12-12T00:32:09+00:00

Bookmarks Features Components Storage Security Pricing Versions Validate Your Knowledge Azure Kubernetes Service Cheat Sheet An open-source tool for orchestrating and managing many container images and applications. Lets you deploy a managed Kubernetes cluster in Azure. Features Uses clusters and pods to scale and deploy applications. Kubernetes can deploy more images of containers as needed. It supports horizontal scaling, self-healing, load balancing, and secret management. Automatic monitoring of application load to determine when to scale the number of containers used. Allows you to replicate container architectures. Use Kubernetes with supported [...]

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)2024-12-12T00:32:09+00:00

Azure App Service

2023-07-03T05:38:53+00:00

Bookmarks App Services Types Deployment Monitoring Security VNet Integration Hybrid Connections Pricing Validate Your Knowledge Azure App Service Cheat Sheet A fully managed platform (PaaS) for building, deploying, and scaling your web apps. Different types of App Services: Web Apps, Web Apps for Containers, and API Apps Automatically patches and maintains the OS and language frameworks. App Service can scale up or out manually or automatically. App Service supports the following languages: .NET .NET Core Java Ruby Node.js PHP Python An App Service plan is a collection of compute [...]

Azure App Service2023-07-03T05:38:53+00:00

Azure Virtual Machines

2024-02-22T10:36:30+00:00

Bookmarks Features VM Status Disks Dedicated Host Pricing Backup and Recovery Concepts Scale Sets Monitoring Network Security Azure Scale Set vs Availability Set How to Create a Virtual Machine in Azure Validate Your Knowledge Azure Virtual Machines Cheat Sheet Linux-based and Windows-based virtual machines Features Server environments are called virtual machines. A package OS and additional installations in a reusable template are called VM Images. Supports various configurations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking capacity for your virtual machines, known as virtual machine [...]

Azure Virtual Machines2024-02-22T10:36:30+00:00

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