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...
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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...
Everything you wanted to know about PowerShell's Module Path.
While working on some PowerShell scripts which are using AzureRM PowerShell modules for an Azure DevOps Extension I had some trouble using the correct AzureRM PowerShell module version on the Hoste...
Running Universal Dashboard Docker container in Azure Web Apps for Containers.
In my previous blog post I explained how to create a Docker container which is servicing an Universal Dashboard web page. In this blog post I want to explain how you can host this Universal Dashbo...
Running Universal Dashboard in a Linux Docker Container
For a project I’m currently working on I needed a Linux Docker container to run in Azure App Service for Linux. Web App is a fully managed compute platform that is optimized for hosting websites a...
Automatically generating PowerShell cmdlets to manage or access a RESTful Web Service?
This week there was a conversation on Twitter about creating a WorldCup PowerShell Module using PSSwagger. I never let a good opportunity slip to learn something new, so I started to investigate...
Parsing your ARM Template Output in VSTS Pipelines
Did you know you can store your ARM template output in a VSTS variable and parse that data for later usage in your VSTS Release Pipeline? If you are using the Azure Resource Group Deployment Task ...
Connect to Azure SQL Database by obtaining a token from Azure Active Directory (AAD)
Scenario: Use an Access Token from an Azure Service Principal to connect to an Azure SQL Database. We used this in the following scenario: With a VSTS Extension Task we wanted to create/add an A...