Execute scripts against Azure from GitHub Actions
Within Azure DevOps service connections are used for the authentication against the Azure platform but in GitHub this works a little bit different. Let me ex...
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Run cloud native application anywhere with Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes
At the beginning of this year Microsoft released Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes, this enabled you to attach conformant Kubernetes clusters to Azure f...
Using multiple repositories within Azure DevOps pipelines
In numerous situations I have seen seen people sharing code from a centralized Azure Repos sending the scripts via email. On every new version they would sen...
Azure Template Specs managed via Azure DevOps with bicep
Azure template spec is a resource type within Azure used for storing an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template for later use. By using template specs you have...
Running bicep in GitHub Actions
Bicep is a language that is used to simplify the writing of ARM templates. Bicep is a so called DSL (Domain Specific Language) meaning that it is a specific ...
Running bicep within Azure DevOps Pipelines
During Ignite Microsoft released bicep version 0.3.1. With this version the bicep language is not experimental any more. Some pointer about this version are:
Private Azure DevOps agent pool based the Microsoft Hosted Agents
In Azure DevOps it is possible to create a agent pool that references a Azure virtual machine scale set. This scale set can be based on one of the build in i...
The new and shiny - Azure Template Specs
Azure Template specs is a new resource within Azure that is used for saving Azure Resource Manager Templates (ARM). With these template specifics you can lat...
Markdown generation for ARM and PowerShell
After my session at Azure LowLands with the title "You build It, You run It on the Microsoft Platform" a lot of people were interested in a script that I sh...
Managing the Microsoft Azure cloud is not easy, would a cloud team be useful?
Most organizations start with the Microsoft Azure cloud by experimenting and before they know it, an environment is created that is no longer as transparent ...