Abs07act Azure File Storage is an ubiquitous service. It is so useful that I have hardly seen an enterprise not making use of it. Recently Premium tier of File storage is in07oduced with IOPS as 1,00,000 as opposed to standard File storage which used to offer 1000 IOPS only. This premium tier now even makes Azure File Storage natural choice for high performance demanding applications. I have been architecting many scenarios and implementations where I used Azure File Storage for running web applications. In such a scenario your application binaries, DLLs, application files [or jar, war files in case Java] are present on Azure File Storage and this Azure File Storage is mapped as a drive to Azure VMs. This Azure VM then runs web servers likes Tomcat, IIS and maps their website path to the drive mapped using Azure File Storage. And this works awesome! In today’s enterprise world DevOps has become a regular practice. Naturally when you plan to deploy web applications you use...

Abs07act Come on guys!! Seriously? After this successful post of Azure Virtual Machine – Frequently asked questions – not easily answered I got almost 54+ requests/ comments/ emails asking specifically for a blog post on sharing script for “Deleting Azure File Storage Directory using PowerShell”. Not sure why people felt this is hard to write  a PowerShell script. Well, this post is about the same topic and at the end of post you will know how to delete Azure file storage Directory and Files using PowerShell scripting. You must have read the word in title “Secret sauce of Recursion”; about that later in the post below. Lets go! What is big deal in deleting Azure File Storage Directory and Files? Well, you may think this as s07aight forward PowerShell. I also thought the same way until I actually 07ied for it. As a best practice, before 07ying anything from PowerShell I always do the same task using Azure Portal. So for deleting Azure Files I went o...

Abs07act I always get this question – how can I download Azure blob storage files in Azure Linux VM? When I say use Azure CLI (Command Line Interface) then next question asked is – Do you have step by step guide? Well, this blog post is the answer to both questions. The high level approach is outlined below – Provision Linux Azure VM in a subnet. [Of course this step is out of scope of this article. For detailed steps refer - this guide .] Install Azure CLI in Linux VM level Upload sample files to azure storage and then download them in a folder in Linux VM. This article assumes you understand Azure storage and related concepts. Wow, this is first blog post from me on Linux and Azure. ...