Microsoft Azure
Not long ago, I experienced a classic "Today I Fucked Up" moment while working on a data migration at work. We needed to sync data between Azure storage accounts to set up infrastructure in a new region. Source accounts were cluttered with good and stale data, in the
Storage
Recently, I encountered a situation with Azure Storage. We were playing with immutability policy in a storage account in a test environment. We've set a policy for tests, we did what we wanted to do, when the time came to delete the environment, I hit a roadblock. Locked
KQL
We wanted to know which actions where done by a human and not a service principal when looking at Azure Activities in Log Analytics queries. We thought of a nice quick way to do it! Email vs GUID Our assumption is that all humans that trigger something in Azure will
Microsoft Azure
It is not a secret anymore that I really like Azure Resource Graph. Today I wanted to list all the subscriptions under a management group and had to adjust because I was leveraging hidden tags before on subscriptions. This data is now gone in ARG, let see how I now
Microsoft Azure
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
Microsoft Azure
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
Cost Management
One of the main issues facing IT management in 2020 is uncontrolled cloud spending. Learn how to gain the visibility and insights you need to take control of your cloud environment, and implement a team-wide Azure cost management strategy.
PowerShell
Over the years I posted a few scripts that have been useful for me in Azure on ScriptCenter. Time has come to move them on a newer platform since ScriptCenter is now obsolete and is retiring. Bye Bye ScriptCenter ScriptCenter will continue to operate in read-only mode, no new contributions
Microsoft Azure
I got a question from a reader asking how to use the Managed Identity of a storage account against Azure Key Vault to enable storage encryption using customer-managed keys. The documentation doesn't say storage accounts can have an identity. Testing a solution made me realize I was wrong,
Microsoft Azure
I was recently asked how to give access to an existing KeyVault to a managed identity that already have access policies configured. It's not a secret but not all know about this little trick that will enable you to incrementally process permissions to KeyVault over time using ARM
Community
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
Microsoft Azure
I had the pleasure to co-host a webinar with Jussi Roine around Azure Policy and governance in Azure at the end of March 2020 for ShareGate. It was a good event and we had a lot of registrations but if you missed it, or would like a chance to listen