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Azure Recipes
Short, tested, step-by-step Azure recipes: the commands, the real output, what it costs and how to clean up. Code for every recipe on GitHub.
1 of 170 recipes published · new every Tuesday
Each recipe does one thing on Azure, end to end: what you build and why, the commands in PowerShell and Bash with the output they really print, how to check it works, what it costs, and the one command that cleans it up. Everything runs in its own resource group, uses managed identities and RBAC instead of keys, and has its code in cloudtales-gr/azure-recipes.
Latest recipes
Categories
GOV
Foundations and governance
Tenant security, subscriptions, policy, RBAC and the tools every other recipe uses.
1 of 12 published
ID
Identity with Microsoft Entra ID
Users, Conditional Access, passwordless, sync, app and workload identities.
0 of 14 published
NET
Networking
VNets, private endpoints, DNS, VPN, firewalls and load balancing.
0 of 15 published
VM
Virtual Machines
Windows and Linux VMs: create, secure, patch, image, scale and rescue.
0 of 12 published
WIN
Windows Server on Azure
Active Directory, file services, hotpatching and Windows workloads on Azure VMs.
0 of 8 published
LNX
Linux on Azure
Entra sign-in, web servers, monitoring and storage for Linux VMs.
0 of 7 published
AVD
Azure Virtual Desktop
Host pools, profiles, RemoteApp and scaling for Azure Virtual Desktop.
0 of 5 published
STO
Storage
Secure storage accounts, SAS, lifecycle, immutability and data movement.
0 of 10 published
DB
Databases
Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL and Cosmos DB with Entra authentication and private access.
0 of 8 published
CTR
Containers and AKS
Container Registry, Container Apps and AKS with identities instead of secrets.
0 of 9 published
APP
App platform
App Service, Functions, Static Web Apps, messaging and integration.
0 of 11 published
SEC
Security
Key Vault, Defender for Cloud, Sentinel and the zero-key baseline.
0 of 10 published
MON
Monitoring
Log Analytics, agents, alerts, KQL, Application Insights and log cost.
0 of 9 published
BCK
Backup and disaster recovery
Azure Backup, ransomware protection and Site Recovery drills.
0 of 7 published
ARC
Hybrid with Azure Arc
On-premises servers managed, patched and protected from Azure.
0 of 5 published
IAC
Infrastructure as Code and DevOps
Bicep, Terraform, pipelines and deployments without stored secrets.
0 of 9 published
COST
Cost
Finding waste, allocating cost and buying compute the cheaper way.
0 of 6 published
AI
Azure AI
Azure OpenAI, AI Search, Speech and agents, called with managed identity.
0 of 7 published
MIG
Migration
Moving servers, files, databases and websites to Azure.
0 of 6 published