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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
ReadDocument your Azure DevOps pipeline templates
When working on your precious pipeline templates that you write in YAML, it can be a burdensome to document each parameter individually. Documentation is also overlooked, as you always seem to be busy with other things, but eventually you'll be glad you did it. What if you can make it more fun and easier to do?
ReadCreating output handler Crescendo
Back in June I explored the Crescendo module for Powershell to wrap native command line tool into cmdlets. In the blog post, I needed to make a deviation and did not spend time on looking to the output handler.
ReadBuilding Azure DevOps REST API extension
Quite recently I was facing an issue whereas a new service was introduced which needed deployment through Azure DevOps remotely. Normally spoken I would fallback in Windows Remote Management (WinRM) and use it in combination with the Invoke-Command cmdlet to create in conduction with the New-Service cmdlet. Unfortunately, WinRM was disallowed by the Network Security Groups (NSGs) on the Azure VMs. Luckily the RPC protocol was allowed, giving us the ability to use the native sc.exe command line tool.
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