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We migrated most of our automation from ARM Templates to Bicep in the recent months and things have been good so far. We ran into an issue deploying a bicep file containing French characters using Azure CLI. The message was: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x82
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In Azure, resource groups are very helpful to logically hold together a set of resources. For many reasons, at some point, you'll want to get rid of these resources but how can you achieve this and what are the pros and cons of each? This is an actualized
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Before COVID-19 started to force a global shutdown everywhere, we were already thinking about this event. The long term goal? Help cloud engineers being more successful with Microsoft Azure. ShareGate Deploy is a free event, one of the several to come onto this journey! A full day focused on Microsoft
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We've been on a mission lately at work to find expiring credentials and certificates in our Azure environments. One of the resources we had on our radar is Azure Application Gateway. Here's what I did to solve this problem and to enable us to be more
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I wrote a few PowerShell functions a couple of years ago to build a bearer token out of an active session. I needed to make calls in scripts here and there and nothing native was available. This is now things of the past if you are open to use Azure
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Azure Resource Graph has been announced a while ago (Ignite 2018) and I immediately understood this would be a game changer in terms of querying and data digging for the Azure resources I need to manage. What is Azure Resource Graph From the Microsoft documentation: Azure Resource Graph is a
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In the last year it occurred several times that I needed to audit and validate Role Based Access Control (RBAC) assignments for an Azure subscription. Using what is available in the portal doesn't help much. You can view assignments in the portal but it is not exportable, neither
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UPDATE: 2018-06-28 - Added resourcegroup ODataFilter example. Starting with version 6.0 of Azure PowerShell, Find-AzureRmResource have been removed and Get-AzureRmResource is supposed to be the workaround. My first reflex was to just convert Find-AzureRmResource -ResourceType to Get-AzureRmResource -ResourceType but I was unlucky and hit a regression and an error
Azure Resource Manager
I've been working to convert a lot of classic resources on Azure lately, a lot of fun I assure you! Many of the scenarios I faced implied virtual machines & virtual networks but here I will present a simple case I did recently, migration of a simple Classic
Azure Resource Manager
If you want to perform IP whitelisting against an App Service, you'll discover that on public instances of App Service (not App Service Environment) you have 4 or more outbound IP addresses. I was in a situation where I needed to get all outbound IP addresses over multiple
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More than often I need to call the Azure RM REST API to perform a variety of thing. Pretty much the only way you'll find to do it on the Internet in PowerShell is to authenticate a second time against the REST API to obtain a bearer token.
Azure Key Vault
If you are looking to create an Azure Key Vault, have full visibility/traceability over who access it and what they did while preventing accidental deletes of your vault, you are at the right place. Let me show you how to achieve this using well-known best practices and patterns like