Powershell

Dynamic inventory your Azure Virtual Machines with PSDocs

Are your teams spawning Azure Virtual machines like sandwiches going over the counter? Do you want to dynamically create an inventory of your Azure VMs and share it with your stakeholders? Do you want to identify which Azure VM belongs to which environment and department? Glad to have you hear.

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Bicep

Post deployment scripts with Bicep, template specs and Azure DevOps

Everybody that creates Bicep modules and deploys them through Azure Pipelines, faced challenges where it was required to do some post deployment activity. Probably you have solved the issue by either running an Azure CLI task, or Azure PowerShell task to do such activity. While this has it's benefits, in this blog you'll learn about a different approach by leveraging the deploymentScripts resource. Later in the blog, you are going to publish it as a template spec, which can be consumed using the Service Principal in Azure Pipelines giving you the benefit to version your modules. Of course, if you want to follow along, you are going to need some pre-requisites

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Powershell

Powershell module development series

The Rabo Tech Blog community gave me the opportunity to write a series on Powershell module development. In this whole series, you will learn optimizing your developer experience in Visual Studio Code, indentation, scaffolding, PSScriptAnalyzer, laying standard and many more features to develop quality Powershell modules. You can check it out on the Rabo Tech blog site.

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Bicep

Bicep best practices series

It's been a while since I posted something, but wanted to let you know that I'm still writing content. In this case, it was for the current company that I'm working for. They gave me an opportunity to write on their Tech Blog, so that's what I did. It's all about Bicep best practices. You can find the series on the Rabobank Tech Blog website

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