Community contributions

On this page, I keep track of my contributions to the community per year:

Personal roadmap 2024

• Blogs on Azure Bicep / Azure DevOps / Azure / GitHub
• Contributing to Azure Bicep related repositories
• Start with attending on-site / remote events and speaking

2023

• [23 January 2023] DeploymentNotFound error using Azure Bicep modules
• [27 February 2023] Three use cases for using GitHub Copilot with Azure Bicep
• [12 March 2023] Protect Azure DevOps Personal Access Tokens with Conditional Access
• [15 April 2023] Simplify Azure DevOps License Management with Group Rules
• [24 May 2023] Secret scanning in Azure DevOps with Defender for DevOps
• [5 July 2023] The “Awesome Azure DevOps” community repository
• [21 August 2023] Subnetting in Azure Bicep
• [11 September 2023] Azure Bicep Tips & Tricks
• [2 October 2023] Work with environment variables in Azure Bicep

In progress

• [Upcoming blog] Introduction to Azure Bicep User-Defined Types
• [Upcoming blog, title TBD] GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps
• [Upcoming blog] Manage an Azure environment with deployment stacks
• [Upcoming blog] Re-use types and variables across Azure Bicep files

Open source contributions

• johnlokerse/awesome-azure-devops
  • [Active maintainer] Created the Awesome Azure DevOps repository with a growing list of Microsoft and community blogs, videos, podcasts, and tools: johnlokerse/awesome-azure-devops: An awesome list of Azure DevOps content created by Microsoft or the Community! (github.com)
    
• Azure/bicep
  • [GitHub Discussions contribution] VirtualHubs subresource Id for azure firewalls · Azure/bicep · Discussion #11904 (github.com)
  • [GitHub Discussions contribution] SQL managed Instances · Azure/bicep · Discussion #11964 (github.com)
    
• Azure/ResourceModules
  • [Pull Request] [Modules] Added securestring and secure() to several arm templates and biceps by johnlokerse · Pull Request #4021 · Azure/ResourceModules (github.com)
    
• Azure DevOps TechCommunity
  • https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-devops/azure-devops-not-allowed-to-approve-pr-s/m-p/3911484

2022

• [January] Relaunched my blog, and it’s live at my domain https://www.johnlokerse.dev.
• [7 February 2022] Validating YAML using Azure DevOps or CLI
• [20 February 2022] Convert ARM templates to Azure Bicep
• [12 March 2022] Reference Key Vault secrets using Azure Bicep
• [20 April 2022] Azure Bicep validation in a pull request with Azure DevOps
• [13 June 2022] Azure Bicep output and accessing nested child resources
• [26 July 2022] Generate Azure Bicep parameters with Azure CLI or Visual Studio Code
• [26 September 2022] Azure Bicep lambda expressions
• [4 December 2022] Run PowerShell scripts with Azure Bicep

Open source contributions

• Azure/ALZ-Bicep
  • [Pull Request] Updated markdowns to correspond with the Bicep files by johnlokerse · Pull Request #331 · Azure/ALZ-Bicep (github.com)
  • [Pull Request] Implementation of correct output id, added example command for search on SPN name by johnlokerse · Pull Request #281 · Azure/ALZ-Bicep (github.com) / [GitHub Issue fix] objectid needs to be changed to id · Issue #275 · Azure/ALZ-Bicep (github.com)
  • [Pull Request] Description updates, consistency usage of camelCasing (vnetPeering) by johnlokerse · Pull Request #232 · Azure/ALZ-Bicep (github.com)
  • [Pull Request] Added tag property for virtualNetworks resource by johnlokerse · Pull Request #231 · Azure/ALZ-Bicep (github.com)
  • [Pull Request] Corrected some typo’s, camelCasing inconsistency fixes and added defaults by johnlokerse · Pull Request #229 · Azure/ALZ-Bicep (github.com)
  • [Pull Request] Added Resource Group output by johnlokerse · Pull Request #200 · Azure/ALZ-Bicep (github.com)
  • [Pull Request] Upped aliases API version to non-preview by johnlokerse · Pull Request #198 · Azure/ALZ-Bicep (github.com)
  • [Pull Request] Minor typo fixes by johnlokerse · Pull Request #156 · Azure/ALZ-Bicep (github.com)
    
• Azure/bicep
  • [Pull Request] Added DNS Private Resolver resource snippet by johnlokerse · Pull Request #8787 · Azure/bicep (github.com)
  • [Pull Request] Added private endpoint Bicep snippet by johnlokerse · Pull Request #7929 · Azure/bicep (github.com)
  • [Pull Request] Add Bicep snippets: res-lock and res-scoped-lock by johnlokerse · Pull Request #7085 · Azure/bicep (github.com)
  • [Pull Request] Added Bicep snippet for role assignment by johnlokerse · Pull Request #7026 · Azure/bicep (github.com)
  • [GitHub Discussions contribution] Can you use module deployment without referencing any parameters · Azure/bicep · Discussion #6771 (github.com)

2020

• Started blogging
• [1 August 2020] Create Azure resources using CLI
• [7 August 2020] Azure DevOps – Service Connection Authentication Scheme

Open source contributions

• MicrosoftDocs/azure-devops-docs
  • [Pull Request] Fix: Authentication schema’s examples are not correct by johnlokerse · Pull Request #8970 · MicrosoftDocs/azure-devops-docs (github.com)