Intro Export template in the Azure Portal is a useful tool to lean on when you need to understand a resources properties, syntaxes, and structure. We’ve all been there, deploying some Bicep or ARM, but it’s failing on some SKU or it doesn’t like some syntax. Whilst the MS Docs are usually fantastic at showing …
No more JSON Parameter files!? Well, nearly. The .bicepparam feature is still in experimental mode currently, but looks to be coming soon as part of the future Bicep releases. If you’ve worked on ARM templates or Bicep you will be very familiar with the joys of working with a JSON parameters file. It can be …
Introduction Disclaimer: this is just for fun! I don’t actually use it to suggest replies to my emails 🙂 Additionally I also have disregarded any data sensitivity concerns in doing this for the name of testing things out and fun. I thought it was a cool concept that could have some valid use cases. For …
This guide is going to break down how to create a secure password string in a logic app flow and upload this secret into a key vault using REST API. I had previously explored executing java code in the Inline Code connector, which utilises an integration account to generate a password string. However, on further …
Intro As you cannot grant owner level permission in Azure Lighthouse (contributor is the highest level available to us) we need to circumvent a way around this limitation for Azure policy remediation. The solution to this is granting the User Access Administrator role with two delegated roles: Contributor & Log Analytics Contributor. This will allow …
I’ve been exploring how to retrieve the latest entities in table storage and how this could trigger an automation process. Whether this is via Logic Apps or Power Automate, I needed a solution where a new entry triggered my flow. Here’s my guide on how I’ve achieved this which I hope you may find useful …
Azure Chaos Studio is a new managed service (in public preview now GA!) by Microsoft. It allows you to inject real-world faults into your Azure infrastructure via a controlled experiment. This is an awesome tool to help test service resiliency in a controlled manner, whether that is high CPU or mimicking a network outage. Currently …
When I was trying to run terraform plan in WSL Ubuntu (20.04) it seemed like it had hung. However, when exiting from the process I was receiving the following error: The error was a red herring as my permissions were OK after double checking in Azure. Turning on the Terraform debug trace feature I found …
There are many ways to manage and keep an eye on Azure spend using Cost Alerts for subscriptions, departmental budgets, etc. (And even more recently in Preview at the time of writing, Azure Cost allocation). However, an additional tool in the Azure arsenal is to harness an Azure Dashboard. Using a dashboard can be a …
