Sometimes, there are instances where we need to create a Docker image but do not have access to a Docker environment or prefer not to set up a virtual machine solely for installing Docker. Of course, we can do this with GitHub Actions, but there is an alternative option that I would like to share in this post: utilizing Azure Container Registry to build your Docker image. …
A couple of months ago, I wrote a blog post of "Deploy ChatGPT Next Web to Azure App Service with Individual Account Login in 3 minutes". In this blog post, I will share a new approach to deploy ChatGPT Next Web besides App Service, which is to use Azure Container Apps. My objective is to complete these tasks within three minutes. Let's explore how this can be achieved. …
Azure App Service started to support Linux in 2017 as well as containers. It has similar capability as classic App Service on Windows Server, which can run .NET, Java, NodeJs, PHP and Ruby applications with CI/CD and auto scale. In this post, I will use ASP.NET Core application as an example to explore its underlying mechanism to see how it works. …
Deploying a public DNS server on Microsoft Azure can be a crucial step for organizations and individuals that want to provide DNS resolution to the public. Deploying a public DNS server on Azure can provide benefits such as scalability, high availability, and global reach. In this blog post, we will discuss the steps involved in deploying a public DNS server on Microsoft Azure. …
ChatGPT Next Web is a well-known web UI project for ChatGPT. However, the official repository does not offer a one-click installation option for Azure, and it lacks individual account authentication. We will explore how to deploy it to Azure without creating a VM, add access control to log in to use ChatGPT without any code modification, and complete these tasks within three minutes. …
When creating an Azure function from Azure portal. The function name seems to be fixed once you created it. There's no way from portal UI to change the function name. To rename a function, you could copy its code first, then delete and recreate it. But this is not the only way. Let's see how we can rename a function easily without deleting and recreating it. …
I have Azure VMs that require being accessed only from 3 IP addresses. Two of these IPs are static, the other is dynamic. Every time the dynamic IP changes, I must manually go to Azure portal and update NSG rules. Because this happens every few days, it makes me work 996. To solve this issue, I created Azure Function to automatically update the NSG rule with a simple HTTP request. …
Recently, my Ubuntu 22.04 VMs are getting unresponsive. From Azure portal, I observe that something quickly eats up all memory on the VM. I'm also difficult to SSH into the VM. After work 996, I finally pinpointed the problem. It is caused by a process named "wdavdaemon", which is Microsoft Dender for Linux. This machine is B1s size and has only 1G memory, MDE is taking 416MB and this …
Problem Azure document for "Create an Ubuntu Linux virtual machine using a Bicep file" did not show how to use custom data to run cloud init yaml file when creating VM. After work 996, I finally figured out the undocumented method to run a cloud init yaml file with Azure Bicep. Let's see how to do it. Solution Create a YAML file for cloud init Create a YAML file in the location where your …
One of my Azure VM running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS suddenly gives a warning message " virtual machine agent status is not ready. Troubleshoot the issue". I recently did some updates and cleaned up the system, it seems the VM agent was destroyed. I've fixed the issue and would like to share the solution. …