This one will be short and simple. I have been working on a project where i wanted to give people permissions to Azure resources for a limited amount of time. To do this, I created a runbook that could add…
Inspired by this post, I want to tell you something about my experience with ARM templates and Terraform. My learningpath for Infrastructure as Code has been backwards. My team had been using Terraform for a while when I joined them,…
A few months ago, I spent some time to be able to use Azure DevOps as Source Control provider for an Azure automation account, with a script Microsoft provided. Unfortunately the script contained an error and it took some work to…
This week, I had some time off to enjoy the holidays. So naturally, I was playing around with Powershell, just nice relaxing code. I found something on my computer had to be done manually and it was bugging me. So,…
In my last blogpost, I showed a script I use to test en view an ARM Template deployment. This time I want to use this script as a start to create a very basic CI/CD deployment in Azure DevOps. Just…
I was looking for a way to test ARM Templates before the deployment would take place. Of course, the first step is Test-AzureRmResourceGroupDeployment On it’s own, this is a nice tool. The large issues are displayed before deployment. I was…
I have created a lot of domain controllers and basic domain services. Some for production, most for testing or lab purposes. This was at first while learning how it all worked and later while teaching courses, testing new techniques and…
When my main focus was on-Prem, I had a lot of Powershell-scripts running on scheduled tasks. That is a few years ago and there is something that has always bugged me but I never came to fix: I didn’t have…
Last week I shared on twitter that I had build a clock. Once I was down the rabbit-hole, I put way to much time in this project and ended up with this: Look how fancy! And completely useless. But it’s…
For this post, I’m going to walk you through creating a custom image with DevTest Labs in Azure. We are going to use a VHD from a regular VM. For the copy action we will consider two methods: GUI and…