Azure VM Runtime Team

Long running RunCommands

March 10, 2023 Mar 10, 2023 03/10/23

Joseph Calev

Recently, there's been a bit of confusion involving long running RunCommands. For reference, the default wait time for RunCommand has been 90 minutes - the same as all other extensions. But what if you have a script that takes longer? Well, we've added a timeoutInSeconds parameter just for that purpose! az vm run-command create --...

RunCommand vs Custom Script Extension vs VM Applications

February 17, 2023 Feb 17, 2023 02/17/23

Joseph Calev

I'm sure that many of you would swear that Microsoft loves to confuse you. Currently, there are not three but four ways to run code on your machine. Now, I know what you're saying. "I just want to run this thing on my machine! Which do I choose?" Well, here I hope to clear that up. First, all of the above work on both ...

Managing VM Applications with Azure Policies

February 10, 2023 Feb 10, 2023 02/10/23

Joseph Calev

For those unacquainted with the feature, VM Applications allow you to manage applications across virtual machines and virtual machine scale sets. What exactly is an "application"? In truth, it's whatever you want. Typically, it's something that runs for a long period of time on the box, such as a service. However, the definition is really up ...