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Azure CLI: Get Private Link Service Alias / DNS Name

by Chris Pietschmann | Jul 19, 2022

Azure Private Link provides a way to be able to access resources sitting behind an Azure Load Balancer (such as Virtual Machines) to be accessed by...

AZ-400: Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions Certification Exam

by Chris Pietschmann | Jul 18, 2022

The AZ-400 Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam tests and validates a candidates expertise as a DevOps Professional around the use of...

What is IP Address of Azure DevOps Build Agent and Set Firewall to Allow it

by Chris Pietschmann | Jul 14, 2022

If you are using the Microsoft-hosted Azure DevOps Build Agents, then you wont really have a reliable way to know what IP Address traffic from the...

Deploy C# Script Function App using Azure DevOps YAML Pipeline

by Chris Pietschmann | Jul 14, 2022

A powerful way to write and build Azure Functions is to use C# Script. This allows you to easily write function directly within the Azure Portal, or...

Azure CLI: Delete Public IP from Existing NIC / VM

by Chris Pietschmann | Feb 16, 2022

So you have already created a Virtual Machine in Azure that is provisioned with a Public IP address and you need to remove it. Don't worry, you do...

Azure CLI: Delete All Resources Within Resource Group

by Chris Pietschmann | Feb 15, 2022

There are times when you want to delete all the resources within a specific Azure Resource Group, but you do not want to delete the resource group....

Start Creating Azure Bicep Modules for Code Reuse

by Chris Pietschmann | Feb 8, 2022

The upcoming Module feature for Azure Bicep really enhances the new ARM Template alternative language in a way that ARM JSON never did. Using Azure...

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate DevOps / SRE Certification

by Chris Pietschmann | Nov 30, 2021

The popularity of HashiCorp Terraform has really taken off in the last couple of years. Terraform has become an extremely popular tool for writing...

How my passion for BCDR saved my life

by Dan Patrick | Mar 10, 2021

I have been working in technology since 1995. My first real job was working for Citibank Mortgage as a Novell Netware administrator. As a new member...

Terraform: Create an AKS Cluster

by Jim Counts | Nov 3, 2020

While there are several ways to host container workloads in Azure, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) provides the easiest way to deploy Kubernetes for...

Beginner’s Guide to Pulumi CI/CD Pipelines

by Jim Counts | Oct 23, 2020

I have worked with Terraform for a few years, from entirely open demo environments to customers with strict security and compliance...

Python Scripting in the Azure Cloud Shell

by Chris Pietschmann | Oct 15, 2020

Did you know the Azure Cloud Shell includes support for Python? You can write Python scripts, save then, upload, and run them directly within the...

Update Azure CLI from the command-line (az upgrade)

by Dan Patrick | Oct 10, 2020

The Azure CLI can be updated from the command-line in Windows. The az upgrade command is used for this and it has a few options which are useful....

Azure DevOps Outages: October 7, 2020

by Chris Pietschmann | Oct 7, 2020

Azure DevOps was down yesterday due to an Azure Front Door (AFD) related issue. Today, Microsoft has been experiencing a series of "Service...

Use Terraform Input Variables to Parameterize Infrastructure Deployments

by Chris Pietschmann | Oct 5, 2020

Now that we've gone through an introduction to Terraform, let's take a look at parameterizing our deployments using Terraform Input Variables. Input...