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Security plays a big role in IT. When you write almost everything as code, you know it is a no-go to write passwords, personal access tokens or other secrets hard-coded and commit these in your source control. To avoid a check-in of secrets in your source control, you can use Azure Key Vault to "host" … Continue reading Reference Key Vault secrets using Azure Bicep
In this blog post, I am going to write about the differences between Azure ARM and Azure Bicep. What is Azure ARM or Bicep, what are the syntactic differences and how you can use Azure CLI to convert your existing ARM templates to Bicep templates. What is Azure ARM or Azure Bicep? Azure ARM and … Continue reading Convert ARM templates to Azure Bicep
Working with YAML can be a struggle. It does not matter how easy or complex the task is, an error is easily made. Errors might be an illegal character in a job name or incorrect formatting. I work with YAML frequently to create or maintain CI/CD pipelines and for this post, I want to share … Continue reading Validating YAML using Azure DevOps or CLI
Last week I was working on an extension for a customer. I had to build it from the ground up but ran into some issues regarding service connections while using the documentation of Microsoft. My goal was to create an extension with a token-based service connection. I have never created an extension that required a … Continue reading Azure DevOps – Service Connection Authentication Scheme
Microsoft offers several ways to manage your Azure cloud resources. One using the GUI, the Azure Portal, but when you want to use automation to create resources you need something more versatile, for example, the command line. In this blog post, I want to show how to create and manage your Azure resources using Azure … Continue reading Create Azure resources using CLI
John Lokerse | Azure & DevOps Engineering 