https://rickrainey.com/A minimal, portfolio, sidebar, bootstrap Jekyll theme with responsive web design and focuses on text presentation. 2022-11-22T08:37:30-06:00 Rick Rainey https://rickrainey.com/ Jekyll © 2022 Rick Rainey /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2021-12-06T09:00:00-06:00 2022-11-22T08:34:00-06:00 https://rickrainey.com/posts/ubuntu-dev-setup/ Rick Rainey

This blog is really a crutch for me to remember how I like to setup my Ubuntu desktop for development work. I recently got a new laptop and had to go through the process again of setting it up the way I like. I decided to capture some of those notes here to hopefully benefit others as well. In this blog, I don’t cover things like installing SDK’s, runtimes (.NET, Java, Docker), etc. The onl...

2021-10-12T10:00:00-05:00 2021-10-12T14:00:49-05:00 https://rickrainey.com/posts/ckad-tips/ Rick Rainey

I recently took and passed the CKAD Exam and now the proud owner of the CKAD Certification issued by The Linux Foundation. Like so many others who have accomplished this, I decided to share some tips that I found most helpful when I took my exam. This is not a complete list and there are many great tips out there that you may find more valuable. These were just some top-of-mind thoughts I captu...

2016-06-22T16:06:04-05:00 2021-09-22T15:38:09-05:00 https://rickrainey.com/2016/06/22/add-a-custom-device-to-the-azure-iot-suite-remote-monitoring-solution/ Rick Rainey

Today, Azure IoT Suite provides two end-to-end IoT solutions; Predictive Maintenance and Remote Monitoring. These solutions can be deployed into your Azure subscription and running in just a few minutes, enabling you to get hands-on with all the services that comprise a typical IoT solution. If you have never seen the solutions in IoT Suite, I encourage you to check them out. They will accelera...

2016-03-21T16:06:04-05:00 2021-09-22T15:38:09-05:00 https://rickrainey.com/2016/03/21/deploy-an-azure-resource-manage-template/ Rick Rainey

In my previous post I showed how to use Visual Studio 2015 to author a simple Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template from scratch. In this post, I will discuss a few options for deploying that template. Specifically, I will show how to deploy using Azure PowerShell deploy using Azure Command-line Interface (CLI) deploy using Visual Studio deploy using the Azure Portal If you want to ...

2016-02-22T15:06:04-06:00 2021-09-22T15:38:09-05:00 https://rickrainey.com/2016/02/22/author-azure-resource-manager-template-using-visual-studio/ Rick Rainey

Updated 3/19/2016 Last month I wrote an introduction to Azure Resource Manager (ARM) that talked about how ARM is different from the traditional Azure service management API’s (ASM) for deploying Azure resources. In that post I discussed some benefits of ARM and mentioned tools you can use to author your own ARM templates. In this post I will discuss how to use Visual Studio to author a very s...