John Lokerse | Azure & DevOps Engineering
Hands‑on Azure, DevOps, GitHub (Copilot) and Bicep content
I have always had a love-hate relationship with building Azure DevOps agent solutions. However, with Managed DevOps Pools, creating an agent solution is easier than ever. In this blog: You will learn about what Managed DevOps Pools is You will learn how Managed DevOps Pools is placed in Azure and what it does You will … Continue reading Simplify Azure DevOps agent management with Managed DevOps Pools
In this blog, you will learn how to set up and configure Azure DevOps service connections using workload identity federation through a user-assigned managed identity via an Azure Bicep deployment. This blog covers: A high-level design of how the Azure DevOps services connections are created using Azure Bicep The requirements needed to succesfully configure Azure … Continue reading Setup Azure DevOps Workload Identity Federation using Azure Bicep
In DevOps, the focus is primarily on automation and having dependable deployments. However, sometimes human intervention is necessary, particularly for deployments to critical environments like production or other business-critical systems. Azure DevOps has some measures that you can configure to implement these controls through approvals and checks. Azure DevOps has some measures that you can … Continue reading Use service connection approvals to elevate Azure DevOps deployment security
Stable, scalable and secure infrastructure as code is important to have a performing Azure environment. As organisations adopt Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to automate and manage their cloud resources, the need for maintaining code quality and enforcing best practices becomes important. This is where Azure Bicep linting comes into play, especially when integrated with Azure … Continue reading Lint Azure Bicep templates in Azure DevOps
Are you looking for a curated list of Azure DevOps blogs, videos, or podcast content? Then this post is for you. I have bundled helpful Microsoft official and community-created Azure DevOps content and listed them on GitHub. Repository The goal of this repository is to have a central place with awesome Azure DevOps content. So … Continue reading The “Awesome Azure DevOps” community repository
