A VM that cannot be recovered is a risk no matter how well it runs. Azure Backup gives you a managed way to protect Azure virtual machines without deploying backup servers or agents by hand. This post walks through how it works, how to set it up, and how to …

I had three D-series VMs running in Central US on Azure subscription 1. When I tried to create a fourth VM of the same kind in the same region, Azure refused. I switched to another region, tried again, and it worked right away. This post explains what happened, how to …

You don't need a GPU or a paid API to put a language model behind your app. With llama.cpp, a regular Azure VM can run a quantized open model and serve it through an OpenAI-compatible endpoint. This post covers how the setup fits together, what decides whether it's fast …

When you create a Linux virtual machine on Azure, the portal asks you to download a small file ending in .pem. Many beginners click through, forget where it went, and later find they can't get into their own server. This post explains what that file is, how it works, and …

Every Azure VM you create has at least one IP address, and often two. Knowing which one does what is the difference between a VM that works on the first try and an evening spent wondering why your website won't load. The short version: the private IP is how your …

Why Azure VMs for Deployment

Azure Virtual Machines give you a full-control compute environment in the cloud, essentially a remote server you configure exactly like a physical machine. Unlike PaaS options such as App Service, a VM lets you install any runtime, any OS-level dependency, and any custom service without …

If you've spent time with Docker, you already understand containers. Azure Container Apps doesn't replace that knowledge — it builds a managed layer on top of it. This post maps what you already know onto what Azure adds.

Core Concepts

Docker — Docker is the toolset for building, packaging, and running containers …

If you're trying to decide how to host your next app, this comes up constantly: should you spin up a Virtual Machine, or go with something like Azure Container Apps? Here's the breakdown.

What a Virtual Machine actually is

Full control, full responsibility — A VM is basically an emulated computer …

FQDN stands for Fully Qualified Domain Name. It's the complete, unambiguous address of a host on the internet — every level of the domain hierarchy spelled out, right up to the top-level domain. When you deploy something to the cloud and get back a long, auto-generated URL, that URL is an …

If you're new to Azure, it feels a little counterintuitive at first. You spin up a VM in Azure, and your instinct is to log into that VM and start running Azure commands from inside it — after all, that's where your "Azure stuff" lives, right? But then someone tells you …