Recent changes in the Azure DevOps UI have made it somewhat difficult to refresh secrets on the Azure ARM service connections, here are a couple of ways you can work around this.…
In this post, I’ll try to open up a few of the ways of how a robust system of telemetry and feedback will allow your product to be more agile, deploy more often, lead to faster time to market, and change the development culture of your team for the better.…
So now that we're set with our default Codespace, we should get into customizing the experience. A major part of the appeal of Visual Studio Code is the plethora of awesome extensions that make the development workflow much more productive.…
Exciting times! This Monday I was notified that my nomination for the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award had been evaluated and I was awarded the title in the Azure category. If you're not from the Microsoft scene, you might not be familiar with what this is, so let's take a look.…
For our static frontend hosted in Azure Storage, there is no slot swap functionality out of the box. Here's a short walkthrough on how we solved this.…
We recently ran into an issue with our requirement to pull an imported SSL certificate from a key vault that was located in a separate subscription from our function app consumption plan. Here's how we ended up solving this issue.…
Due to the Covid-19 situation, the excellent Global Azure Bootcamp had to be transformed into a virtual event this year. I was already part of organizing a local physical event, so I thought it would at least make sense to participate in the virtual event.…
I've been using Azure Pipelines YAML schema for quite a while now, but the difficulty of selecting specific artifacts has been bothering me. Check out how I've overcome the issue.…
I recently passed the AZ-500: Azure Security Engineer Associate certification, and thought that now that most of the world is under some level of COVID-19 related quarantine, what better way to spend one's time than study for a certification test. This study guide aims to help with that process.…
We recently changed some of our application resource structures. During this change, we ran into an error message "The publish branch is out of sync with the collaboration branch. This is likely due to publishing outside of Git mode." during our publish. Here's how we solved the issue.…
Last week Microsoft announced that Azure Private Link is now generally available on a limited quantity of services. I dug in to how the portal is doing the deployment of Private Endpoints for Azure Storage and how to automate it. Here's how you can do it too.…
I've recently run into several situations where something that is configurable from the Azure Portal is not anywhere in the ARM documentation. This blog post will go through my process of figuring out how to implement those in ARM anyway.…