Bicep
Building Self-Service Pipeline to Deploy Self-Hosted Environment Agents on Azure Workloads
A while a go, I wondered how I can create a self-servicing capability to deploy self-hosted environment agents onto my Azure Workloads and thought, why not use the same tool that's responsible for targeting those environments?!
ReadAzure Update Manager series
It has been sometime I had the opportunity to work on a new series. This time, I took the time to explore Azure Update Manager!
ReadPost 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
ReadBicep 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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