Tips for using Azure Workbooks - Part 1
Here are some of my tips for beginners and intermediate users thinking of getting started with Azure Workbooks.…
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Updating Azure DevOps Azure Automatic Service Principal secrets
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.…
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Business benefits of robust telemetry practices
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.…
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Personalizing your GitHub Codespace
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.…
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Getting started with GitHub Codespaces
Setting up development environments can be a bit of a pain. Find out how to solve the issue using GitHub Codespaces with this series of posts!…
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I've been awarded the Microsoft Azure MVP title!
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.…
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Azure Pipelines YAML Trigger Overview
I was recently asked about the different triggers in Azure Pipelines YAML. Let's take a closer look at what is offered and how to use them.…
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Simple staging slots for Azure Storage Static Websites
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.…
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App Service Imported SSL Certificate from Key Vault in another Subscription
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.…
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My presentations from Global Azure Virtual
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.…
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Runtime Artifact selection in Azure Pipelines YAML
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.…
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AZ-500 Study Guide
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.…
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Troubleshooting Azure Data Factory v2 Git integration
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.…
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Automating Azure Private Link - Private Endpoints for Azure Storage
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.…
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Updating ARM schema & apiVersion values
A short look into what the process is like, what benefits there are and what might go wrong.…
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