For a project I’m working on we have a massive ARM template and I had to add some stuff, deployment scripts, to it. While I still have enough love for ARM templates to work with it, creating & deploying big deployment scripts with isn’t a great experience.
However, with Bicep I can create (and debug) the script in a proper PowerShell file and load it in the Bicep template using the loadTextContent function.
Read more →When you need to work with service principals in your Azure environment, you are probably creating them via some script using the az ad sp command.
This works quite well, but these are created with your account. The account you used to log in with the Azure CLI. The same goes when using PowerShell, it’s always running in the context you used to log in. Most of the time your personal or environment administrator account.
Read more →I’ve been working with the Power Platform for a couple of weeks now, and I’m pretty impressed by the functionality it offers.
Lots of scenarios can be covered by using these tools as a frontend for applications we need to serve to our customers, and there’s also a very nice integration with Microsoft Teams! However, there’s always this special little snowflake that can’t easily be accomplished within a Power App. The keyword over there is ’easily'.
Read more →It so happens a lot of people are mixing their work- and personal development machines, especially when doing side projects in their spare time which are somewhat work-related.
At least, this is the case for me as I’m using GitHub both for work & personal stuff nowadays.
On my personal machine, I’ve set up Git to work with my personal e-mail address & SSH keys.
On my work machine, I’ve set it up to run with my work account.
Read more →In my previous post, I wrote how to create & host private build agents for Azure DevOps running in Azure Container Instances.
One of the reasons for doing so is to eliminate creating build agent VM’s and performant pipelines for my side projects. But, of course, the build agents also need to be as cheap as possible. Azure Container Instances have per-second billing, which is excellent for build agent containers.
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