Introduction I’ve been dabbling into the world of Pester as of late to beef some unit tests with Azure Bicep modules. I thought it would be great if I can enhance the continuous integration pipeline in Azure DevOps for my Azure Bicep repository. With this, I thought I’d share this solution I came up with …
Introduction Microsoft released into public preview in Q4 last year, workload identity federation service connections for Azure DevOps. This was very welcomed, as it greatly improves your security posture by using short-lived authentication tokens with no persistent secret to manage. For the most part, all my Service Principals to workload identity conversions in Azure DevOps …
Introduction Deploying to Azure Container Apps with Azure DevOps and want a quick start reference to get going? I’ll detail how you can quick start continuous deployment to your Azure Container App revision in single revision mode with Azure DevOps, featuring a quick start YAML pipeline that will build your container, publish to Azure Container …
Testing your Bicep modules with PSRule is a great way to identify that your code is meeting Azure best practice. But how do you actually test your Bicep modules with PSRule properly? How can you structure your Git repository? How can I configure PSRule to test the modules? Can I document what the modules do, …
Intro ? When you enable Access Restrictions onto your Azure App Services (such as an Azure Function or Web App) you cut off any inbound traffic from the internet. This can pose an extra challenge when needing to deploy code via pipelines as you now have no inbound public access to the SCM (source control …
Introduction Finding a robust validation solution for Bicep has been both straight forward and frustrating. We have amazing tools like PSRule (shout out to Bernie for his incredible tool here) for best practice. And more straight forward ones provided natively by Microsoft such as the Bicep linter. However, the problem in my opinion, when it …