Enforcing TLS version on Azure WebApps with Resource Manager Policies
Azure Policies are an amazing, albeit well-hidden, feature that allow subscription administrators to define and enforce specific rules on how Azure Resources should be…
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Automation
Keeping your Azure Search Index up-to-date with Azure Functions
Azure Search can work really well with Azure Blob Storage. It can automatically index and analyse documents uploaded to a Storage Container to make…
Deploying your code to production doesn't have to hurt
This blog post is at the back of a conversation I had on Twitter with a few people about how (not) to deploy code…
Monitor Azure Web Application backups with Azure Functions
For most of your monitoring and alerting needs, [Azure Monitor](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/monitoring-and-diagnostics/monitoring-overview" target="_blank) should be…
Deploying Functions with ARM templates and inline code
Last week I started a mini-series that focused on [Azure Functions and DevOps. The tooling is still being worked and in the interim we…
Deploying Azure Functions with ARM templates and the Kudu REST API
This approach is by far my preferred and favourite. Ok, it's not perfect but I believe that it provides the most open…
Service Principals in Microsoft Azure
What is a service principal? Azure has a notion of a Service Principal which, in simple terms, is a service account. On Windows and…
The new Azure Management Fluent API has landed
Hello friends. Did you hear the news? Did you read the announcement? There's a new [awesome] Azure Management Fluent API for C#…
Run SSH with PowerShell
I'm currently working on a somewhat restricted environment where we have to run SSH commands on a Windows Server. The commands are…
Automate login for Azure Powershell scripts with Service Principals
Automation is great. It's the bedrock of any successful IT department and the default solution for any task that has to be…
Copying blob data between storage accounts on Azure. Did you say scale? (part 1)
A couple of weeks ago I [published a post](GHOST_URL/copy-azure-blob-data-between-storage-accounts-using-functions/" target="_blank) for copying data between storage accounts using Azure…
Configure a RunOnce task on Windows
Today was one of these days. Faced with a new problem I've never come across before. I was trying to configure a…