Playing with Github Actions
After using Azure DevOps Yaml Pipelines for some time now I wanted to learn more about Github’s Actions. Introduction According to the Github documentation, GitHub Actions makes it easy to automa...
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Comparing Azure DevOps Extension Pipeline tasks with Github Actions
In my last blog post I shared my first experiences with Github Actions. One of the features of Github Actions is that you can publish actions in GitHub Marketplace and share actions you’ve created ...
Using Azure Private Link (Preview) for Storage Accounts
I recently started to investigate Azure Private Link to access Azure Storage (Azure PaaS Service) over a Private Endpoint in our virtual network. Azure Private Link provides a number of benefits (...
Passing variables from stage to stage in Azure DevOps Release Pipelines
While working on an Azure DevOps Release Pipeline I wanted to pass a variable from one Stage to another Stage and it turned out this was not possible without some extra effort. After some searches...
Logging in PowerShell for Azure functions
While working on a PowerShell Azure Function for my PowerShell Conference Europe 2019 session I wanted to enable some logging and it was not as straight forward as I initially thought. Logging Lo...
Using Replace Function in Kusto Query Language
I wanted to replace some string values in one of my Log Analytics Kusto queries and had some difficulty to get the result I was looking for. In this blog post I’ll demonstrate how I got the wanted...
PowerShell in Azure Functions Links
Microsoft announced the Public Preview of PowerShell in Azure Functions 2.x and here is a collection of links to get you started. Public Preview of PowerShell in Azure Functions 2.x Create yo...
Managed Identity in Azure DevOps Service Connections
I recently noticed that there is a now an option to use Managed Identity Authentication for Azure DevOps Connection Services besides Service Principal Authentication. For those not familair with A...
Use Azure DevOps Pipeline to Publish a PowerShell Module to the PowerShell Gallery
Recently I released a new PowerShell Module called PSJwt to the PowerShell Gallery. This is a PowerShell Module for JWT (JSON Web Tokens). The PowerShell Module is using the Jwt.Net library. This l...
Using the Windows Graph API to set Service Principal as owner of Service Principal
In this blog post I’ll explain how to use the ‘old’ Windows Graph API to set an Azure Service Principal as owner of another Service Principal. For the automated configuration of Azure DevOps servi...