I don’t think I’ve ever said anything good about Azure, but I’ve finally ran into one today. Someone screwed up sshd_config and the service would not start anymore. With the run script tool, I was able to revert the config to the original version and restart the service. Fortunately, the changes were checked into RCS, which made recovery relatively easy. Here, I checked out the original version of the config…
Azure hard-codes disk size and it cannot be changed during deployment. Resizing root disk on Azure is often a required task. Here is how a root disk can be resized. I learned this the hard way.
I recently attended a 4-day training on Microsoft’s cloud platform. Quickly I learned why it should not be used if you’re serious about your business.
So I’ve decided to give Microsoft Azure a try. Coming from AWS, it really is difficult to expect another cloud that can be comparative. I’m just going to say that up front.