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Azure Container App notes | Enviroment creation

Consume only type

Consumption only environments should be ignored:

• Legacy
• Portal does not even support creation of that kind of environments

Zone-redunancy

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TBD

$ConfirmPreference

Valid values of $ConfirmPreference:

• None: PowerShell doesn't prompt automatically. To request confirmation of a particular command, use the Confirm parameter of the cmdlet or function.
• Low: PowerShell prompts for confirmation before running cmdlets or functions with a low, medium, or high risk.
• Medium: PowerShell prompts for confirmation before running cmdlets or functions with a medium, or high risk.
• High: PowerShell prompts for confirmation before running cmdlets or functions with a high risk.

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Virtual network service tags

Helpers for Microsoft provided Virtual network service tags.

Revision 2 functions and tests are from ChatGPT.

TODO

• Add function to download file from REST API
• Add transparent caching to persist and re-use downloaded data

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Generic notes

Visibility limitations on resource changes

Change Analysis

Change analysis captures only server and database creations.

Missing:

• Diagnostics settings

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function Test-ShouldProcess {
    [CmdletBinding(
        SupportsShouldProcess,
        ConfirmImpact = 'High'
    )]
    param(
        [Switch]$Force
    )

    Write-Verbose  "`$PSCmdLet: $PSCmdLet"

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Create table placeholder for JIRA/Confluence

echo '|name|x|' ; echo '|----|----|' ; <data generating command here. e.g. pbpaste>  | awk '{print "|"$0"| |"}'

Convert escaped JSON string

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Activity logs on management groups

Directory activity log

• https://www.invictus-ir.com/news/the-azure-log-you-probably-didnt-know-existed

Diagnostics setting creation

$mg = Get-AzManagementGroup -GroupName "test"

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Virtual macine extensions

List all available extensions:

$location = "eastus"  # Specify the location

$publishers = Get-AzVMImagePublisher -Location $location

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OS X RAMDISK Usage

Before creating large disks check from Apple documentation if memory is de-allocated after hdiutil detach[^1]

This guide has only CLI steps: using GUI tools might work but not covered here.

Create a new RAM disk device

hdiutil attach -nomount ram://2097152

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Storage account types

Configuration on resource property

Kind property

value	usage
'BlobStorage'	Legacy: Blob Storage
'BlockBlobStorage'	Portal: Premium / Block blobs