Move Terraform Providers to Other Folders

Create a new control file with the name .terraformrc or terraform.rc in your profile folder. Add the following lines: Create the folder .terraform.d/plugin-cache in your profile folder. The providers will be downloaded to the cache folder when you run terraform init. If you don’t want to create the control file in the profile folder. Alternative … Read more

How to Copy Azure Images to Other Subscriptions or Regions

Copy Azure Images to Other Subscriptions

The Azure image was introduced in 2014 by Microsoft. It’s a more comprehensive image for Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines. Azure is a highly available cloud. Solution design needs to always take failover and tolerance into account. Therefore, copy Azure images to other subscriptions or regions is something we need to consider. There are three methods … Read more

How to reset Azure Migrate Appliance

Azure Migrate appliance is a simple tool to move VMware virtual machines to Azure. But it has limitation to migrate VMs on multiple vCenter servers. In other words, you have to deploy multiple appliances to support multi-vCenter. This is a time-consuming task. In fact, there is a way to reset the Azure Migrate Appliance. There … Read more

Public cloud and web hosting provider Krypt reviews

My blog finally backed online!! Due to a updating issue on PhotoVPS infrastructure, my virtual machine ran into unstable since Monday. I didn’t notice it till Wednesday. The virtual  machine got intermittently network connectivity issue, PhotoVPS engineers can only temporarily fix it.  I was struggled by the situation, finally I decided order a new virtual machine on Krypt. Krypt is ideally place for me since they are VMware certified partner, they helps VMware improves vCloud products and develops in public cloud market. The network performance is also the greatest from North American to China in US service providers, they have dedicate bandwidth to China Telecom.

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