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PowerShell one-liner to easily use Azure VM Metadata Service

December 22, 2017
/ General Compute
/ By rasmusg

Have you heard about the Azure Instance Metadata Service? When I implemented my blog in Azure I used a handy PowerShell “one-liner” to easily query specific information about the VM I was currently

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This is my blog about API Management and Microsoft Azure – Especially Azure API Management, Azure PaaS, Azure Compute, and Azure Migration.

What is API Management?
API Management is the process of creating and publishing web APIs. This API Management process covers: enforcing API usage policies, controlling access, subscriber community features, collecting and analyzing usage statistics, and reporting on performance.

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It is a cloud computing service created by Microsoft for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and services through Microsoft-managed data centers.
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