All Azure IoT solutions are built starting with Azure IoT Hub as the cloud-base message broker for the Internet of Things (IoT) solution. This...
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Get Started with Azure Bicep – Alternative to ARM Templates
Azure Bicep is an abstraction built on top of Azure ARM Templates and Azure Resource Manager that offers a cleaner code syntax with better support...
Terraform Feature Flags & Environment Toggle Design Patterns
Terraform offers lots of flexibility in coding Infrastructure as Code (IaC) deployments. Using Feature Flags and Environment Toggles can help in...
Azure Cloud Shell Tips and Tricks
The Azure Cloud Shell offers the ability to manage cloud resources, virtual machines, run scripts and other tasks directly from within the browser...
Terraform: Create Azure IoT Hub and Device Provisioning Service (DPS)
At the core of any Internet of Things (IoT) solution built with Microsoft Azure is the need to connect IoT devices to the cloud and send/retrieve...
Azure Web App: Application Settings
All web applications have some kind of configurations that are set on the server. The method of storing and accessing these settings varies on...
Install Azure CLI on Windows with Winget
The Azure CLI is the command-line tool for working with Microsoft Azure resources, and grants you access to the CLI through both the Windows Command...
Windows Gets Package Manager with winget CLI Utility
Microsoft released the new Windows Package Manager (winget) as an open source, community driven package manager for installing, updating,...
Azure Announcements from Microsoft Build 2020
Microsoft made a lot of announcements with their Microsoft Build 2020 event that kicked off today. The event included TONS of updates and...
Docker development VM in Azure
Ever wish you had a Docker dev workstation in Azure? About two months ago, we introduced the Azure Kung Fu VM, and judging by the views of that...
GitHub Satellite ’20 Announcements: Discussions, CodeSpaces, securing code, and more!
Earlier this week, GitHub hosted their annual GitHub Satellite event. The GitHub Satellite 2020 event this year was completely virtual, and free for...
Bulk add work items into Azure DevOps
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Free GitHub Satellite Virtual 2020 Event May 6
GitHub's virtual event GitHub Satellite Virtual 2020 is coming up on May 6, 2020! This is a FREE virtual event featuring developers working together...
GitHub CLI (gh) Cheat Sheet
When working with GitHub Repositories, the Github.com website provides an excellent interface for working with Issues, Pull Requests, and...
Jumpstart: Open the Network Connections Tab in Windows
TLDR: Start-->Run-->ncpa.cpl Have you ever lost 6 minutes of your life trying to find a network adapter in Windows? Yeah, me too. Windows...
Git Cheat Sheet
When working with any command-line tool, like Git, it can be easy to forget some of the commands you don't use very often. This is true for those...
Azure CLI: Create and Manage Service Principals
When an application needs to authenticate with Azure AD you can't really just give it a username and password. To authenticate and authorize an...
Azure PowerShell: Create Azure Storage Account and Containers
One of the core services within Microsoft Azure is the Storage Account service. There are many service that utilize Storage Accounts for storing...
Azure PowerShell Cmdlet Naming Convention and Discoverability
Getting to know what Azure PowerShell cmdlets to use for different functions and provisioning services can be difficult to remember. However, just...
Azure Kung Fu Toolkit
Welcome to Az Kung Fu, grasshopper! Scripting is the only way to ensure that your environments are the same every time and remove the risk of human...