Questions tagged [azure]

Microsoft Azure is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform by Microsoft. Users of the platform can deploy their applications onto cloud hosting benefiting from on-demand service, elastic scale, and a highly managed environment on a pay-as-you-go basis.

Microsoft Azure is Microsoft's application platform for the public cloud. Microsoft Azure can be used to build a web application that runs and stores its data in Microsoft datacenters. It can connect on-premises applications with each other or to map between different sets of identity information.

Azure offers several high level services

Azure offers several services currently in preview

Intro to Azure

Each of these services offers the ability to scale up or down based on demand using predetermined virtual machine sizes to run the services.

Use this tag for questions relating to applications hosted on Azure.

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Adding a public IPv6 address to a Linux VM in Azure

I have a Centos7 VM instance running in Azure. It has a public IPv4 address reachable from the internet. I would like to add a public IPv6 address to this instance's network interface but I cannot figure out how to do this. There does not seem to be…
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Redirect apex domain HTTPS requests without manually provisioning a certificate

I'm trying to host a static website on Azure storage with a custom domain and HTTPS. I have created a storage account, uploaded my files, and enabled static site hosting. The site works nicely from the .web.core.windows.net domain provided by…
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Investigate potential breach in Azure App Service

We suspect we have had a data breach, but we are not sure how to investigate it to determine the source of the breach or what data was sent. We have an app service that has been running for a while with steady usage. We noticed that over the last…
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How to download Azure snapshot

Azure / cloud newbie here. We have an app that we have run on Azure for a few years. Company is winding down and I have been tasked with backing up and archiving the program and ideally the server config. We have a GIT repo for the files but they…
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What are the "User Defined Rules" mentioned in the Azure Fundamentals Skills Measured document?

In the document Exam AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals - Skills Measured, under the section "Understand security, privacy, compliance and trust", and the subsection "Understanding securing network connectivity in Azure", the third bullet reads…
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How do I use let's encrypt with an Azure Storage Static Site/Azure CDN

i am working on hosting a static site in Azure Blob Storage. With an azure cdn it is possible to have a custom hostname and SSL, which suits my needs. I would like to use let's encrypt and make it renew itself. I suppose a good way to store the…
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Storage account access for 3rd party Azure

we are trying to set up a storage account where a third party company can come and programmatically collect updated files, we upload a new file, then the company gets an email notification but we are stuck where the company needs a sas token, that’s…
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How to find the subnet mask of the Azure Public IP?

We are trying to setup a site to site VPN with the Azure. We are using Ubiquiti device on our end. On Ubiquiti device it asks for the Remote Network IP and the Subnet Mask, where do I find the subnet mask for the Azure Public IP ? Azure Public IP:…
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Datacenter to Azure Migration - Am I On the Right Path?

Some quick background. We are a small company (13 employees, 6 of which or IT/developers). Everyone works remotely and there is no central office. Our datacenter is only used for development and production environments. We do not use it for any…
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What are the drawbacks of putting my staging and production dbs into one Azure Elastic Pool?

I have a STAGING and PROD environment, web apps, SQL databases, etc in Azure. Currently, the scale of the SQL db for PROD is much higher than STAGING - no surprises there. I suppose there is some temptation to save money by pooling these SQL…
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Monitoring HTTP 5xx errors in an Azure App Service

The Azure App service UI used to have an ability to inspect 5xx errors directly. Since we starting using Azure, the UI has been changing almost constantly though, and this ability seems to have disappeared. We are seeing some 5xx errors, and without…
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Azure App Service Plan: configure load balancing

We have an auto-scaling App Service Plan, which consists of 2 Web Apps: One web app is accessed by the public, and should be load balanced. However, the other web app (authoring) for support reasons (data integrity) can only be accessed from a…
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How to Azure DevOps pull requests create a temporary environment

As a reasonably sized dev team, our pull requests are all deploying to the same dev environment in Azure. I could add a terraform or Azure CLI script and a build step to try to create the infrastructure, then deploy out the app but that seems a bit…
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Azure AD migrating from cloud to on-premises

Has anyone migrated a fully developed Azure AD to on-premises DCs? I work at a small tech start-up that grown. We have been using Azure AD for years with O365, security groups, enterprise apps, etc. I setup AD DS a while back and it has been…
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Azure high availability solution with synchronization of website and SQL server data

We have a web solution that we sell and it comes with 1 dedicated Azure VM containing everything it requires to run the application: ASP.NET web application Production environment QA environment SQL server containing data for both PROD and QA…
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