A cleanup script was supposed to delete a few test resource groups in a dev subscription. It ran without errors, but the groups it deleted belonged to a staging subscription. The engineer had signed in that morning, never checked which subscription was active, and Azure CLI had quietly picked the wrong one. Nothing in the … Read more >>
In this Azure article, we will discuss how you can easily install the Azure Functions Core Tools in Visual Studio Code How To Install Azure Functions Core Tools In Visual Studio Code Follow the below steps Once you execute the above command, the core tools will get installed successfully, as shown below. At the time … Read more >>
A team I worked with had a customer-notification function that ran fine on every laptop except one. On that machine, func start threw a host error, and the publish command refused to deploy. The developer had installed Core Tools two years earlier and never touched it again. His teammates had upgraded along the way, so … Read more >>
A developer on a customer-notification project joined our team on a Monday. By lunch he had cloned the repo, installed the Azure Functions extension in his editor, and typed func start. The terminal answered with “func is not recognized” and nothing else. His teammate had the same code running in minutes, so the difference had … Read more >>
A release was due at 5 p.m. The deployment pipeline had passed for months, then it failed at the first step with a vague authentication error. On the engineer’s laptop, az login opened a blank browser tab and hung. Two people were blaming the network, and a third was ready to rebuild the build agent. … Read more >>
A few years ago, I helped a team clean up after a contractor laptop went missing. The contractor had signed in to Azure from a terminal every day for months, and nobody knew what that machine still held. The security lead asked a simple question: where does az login store credentials, and can someone use … Read more >>
The Azure Command-Line Interface (Azure CLI) is more than just a tool; it is the fundamental bridge between your local machine and the global power of Microsoft’s cloud. In this guide, I will walk you through the top 10 Azure CLI commands that every professional must master. Top 10 Azure CLI Commands You Must Know … Read more >>
A few years ago, a retail client called me after a failed release at 11 p.m. Their build pipeline pulled container images from a public Docker Hub account and hit a rate limit. Worse, the fallback was a shared registry password stored in a pipeline variable that half the company could read. Nobody knew which … Read more >>
A developer on a payments team once pinged me because his build kept failing with “unauthorized: authentication required.” He had copied a registry password from an old wiki page, and someone had since rotated it. Worse, the old password was also sitting in three pipeline files. We fixed the build in ten minutes. Cleaning up … Read more >>
That question matters because Azure has more than 200 products and cloud services across storage, networking, virtual computing, databases, analytics, and AI. Without a clear use case, teams either buy too much or pick the wrong service. I have seen both, and the bill shows it. This guide walks through ten real uses of Azure, … Read more >>