Protect Azure DevOps Personal Access Tokens with Conditional Access

Conditional access is a crucial security feature for protecting your organisations services from unauthorised access. However, by default, personal access tokens created in an Azure DevOps organisation are not subject to conditional access policies. In this blog post, I will explain how you can configure Azure DevOps to adhere Azure Active Directory Conditional Access Policies … Continue reading Protect Azure DevOps Personal Access Tokens with Conditional Access →

Azure Bicep output and accessing nested child resources

In this post, I am going to write about what an Azure Bicep output is and how you can work with output, and how you can access nested child resources in Azure Bicep. Using outputs can be useful to retrieve specific resource or module properties (for example resourceIds or names) and pass these to input … Continue reading Azure Bicep output and accessing nested child resources →

Azure Bicep validation in a pull request with Azure DevOps

In this blog I am going to write about how you can automatically validate Bicep template changes inside a pull request in Azure DevOps. This validation step can help identify errors written in a template or parameter file. These errors can be syntactical or input-based errors. The techniques used in this blog are: Azure CLI, … Continue reading Azure Bicep validation in a pull request with Azure DevOps →

Azure DevOps – Service Connection Authentication Scheme

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 →