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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Azure equivalent of AWS tags?

Is there an equivalent of AWS EC2 tags for Azure? For example, if an account wanted to assign name=value pairs to an Azure machine and then subsequently query them.
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Using Windows Azure storage for backup

I am currently looking at Windows Azure blobs as an option for backing up archive data. I want to be able to upload files from an external windows machine via the internet but I don't know enough about Windows Azure storage to make a decision. Some…
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How many domains can be bound with one SSL certificate?

Let say I have an ASP.NEt application which is bound with more than 10 domains using host headers. Is one certificate is enough for me? or I need more than 1 certificate for each domain? If I need 1 certificate, then adding a new domain means…
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SSL Cert for custom domain endpoint on Azure CDN

We have some content hosted for our Azure application on the Azure CDN - we can access this nicely over https using the standard endpoint address, however for 'neatness' our customer would like to use a custom domain with https - so we can access…
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Unclear pricing of Windows Azure

How do you people think about the Windows Azure pricing model and the way it is presented to the user? I just found out that Azure keeps charging hours for STOPPED instances. I just received a bill from more than 100 euro for 3 STOPPED instances…
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Is it possible to have a Git repo in Windows Azure?

Does anyone know if it's possible to have a Git repo hosted on Windows Azure?
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IPv6 on Azure VM

I have an Azure VM and it works fine with IPv4 Tried to directly associate IPv6 to it, but couldn't connect to the outside world, a simple ping ipv6.google.com hung (according to Microsoft, it is impossible, but with a load balancer is…
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How to enable SSH into an Azure Windows VM?

I need to use a Windows machine for a program that only works on Windows. I set up a Windows 10 virtual machine on Azure. On the Azure portal, at the virtual machine, under Connection, I see the details for RDP and it works with the Microsoft Remote…
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Hostname not eligible for App Service Managed Certificates creation

I have an Azure App Service Plan shared by two App Services. For the first (www.rachel-lumsden.net) I have added an "App Service Managed Certificate". This has enabled secure requests to the site. I've tried to configure the second app service…
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Set Environment Variables on Azure App Service (Docker Instance)

When creating an App Service in Azure and selecting Docker Container as a type of App, where do you set Environment Variables? My App is built in Azure by: 1. Create Resource > App Service > Publish > Choose Docker Image (rather than code) 2.…
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Can I upgrade a managed disk used by an Azure VM without having to redeploy the VM?

I'm trying to convert a separate managed disk I added to my Windows 2019 Server VM from Standard SSD to a Premium SSD. According to the steps at https://docs.microsoft.com/bs-latn-ba/Azure/virtual-machines/windows/convert-disk-storage, I'll have to…
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"Context deadline exceeded" preventing pods from being created in AKS

We have been experiencing an issue causing us pain for the last few months. The issue appears to be that occasionally when we request a pod via the Kubernetes executor it fails to create. For example, a spark pod may fail with the following…
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Azure Web App (Linux): “Error: Container didn't respond to HTTP pings on port: 8080” - when using: “start”: “pm2 start server.js”

My App Service Linux instance crashes if my node app is using the start script: "start": "pm2 start server.js": 2019-04-15 11:36:34.432 ERROR - Container crime-digest__6ea5_0 for site crime-digest__6ea5 has exited, failing site start 2019-04-15…
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Azure ARM Templates for deleting the resources

I know we can create infrastructure using ARM templates. Can we do the same for deleting the Resources. I dont want to delete all the entire resource group but few resources in a resource group. Is this possible through ARM Templates?
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Where are Azure SQL Database Backups Stored

I've got 5-6 Azure SQL Databases running. They run in the Basic and Standard pricing tiers. From what I've read backups run by default which allow for the Point in Time restore options to work. These are my questions: Where are these backups…
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