While working with ARM templates, I have created some tools with PowerShell to make it a little bit easier to do debugging and show risks like overwriting resources. I have written a post before about a script that shows the…
Lab-environments, I love them. Clicking around without a care in the world, discovering new things, learning by doing. Today I want to talk about local labs with hyper-V, using PowerShell Direct. With this great tool, you can send PowerShell-commands to…
In an earlier blogpost, I created a logic app in the portal to start a runbook through an Office365 calendar appointment. It’s very easy to create this in the portal. But it’s a lot more fun to automate the process!…
Last year at Microsoft Ignite, I posted this tweet, inspired by one of the sessions on the cloud shell. Since then, I barely used my iPad for Azure or Powershell, as I had easy access to a Windows laptop. But…
In my last blogpost, I created a runbook that could schedule another runbook, so I could set timed permissions. To take it one step further… What if a person could request these permissions without any access to the Azure Portal?…
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…