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2/15/2024, Azure PaaS Blog
On Feb 29th, 2024, the certificate feature in Azure Batch Account will be retired. To continue using the certificate with Batch task, user will need to migrate the Batch account certificates to Azure Key Vault. But since there is not an existing example provided, that might be a little difficult.   This blog will mainly focus on providing an example about how to recreate the Batch pool with required user assigned Managed Identity and Key Vault extension. Currently the Batch pool with user assigned Managed Identity and extension is only supported by ARM template and REST API call. Creating...
5/15/2023, Azure PaaS Blog
Sometimes, user will need to send out REST API request to manage their resources in Azure platform, for example, when the REST API is upgraded but corresponding PowerShell module or User Interface are not upgraded yet. In this blog, it will contain three main parts: Common points of both ways to send request Send request manually with User Interface such as Postman Send request manually with command line, such as PowerShell in Windows and Curl in Linux   Common points of both ways to send request: No matter user wants to send request by which way, the next three points are always the...
3/10/2023, Azure PaaS Blog
Sometimes, users will need to install some necessary software/packages in the environment before the task is executed. This can be easily done by using Start task feature of Azure Batch.   But when there are many dependencies to be installed, for example 20 packages in Linux and the installation of some of them will take long time such as Tensorflow, it will cause additional problems such as long start task running time when Azure Batch starts Batch node every time or even possible timeout issue or start task failure issue.   In order to avoid this issue, user has two options: Custom...