Use the Power Platform to control Azure DevOps Pull Requests

Use the Power Platform to control Azure DevOps Pull Requests

User Power Platform in combination with Azure DevOps to create a Power App which approved Pull Requests. Create this by using the Rest API and managed identities and a Dataverse custom table and several connectors in a Logic App which is hosted in Microsoft Azure.

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Automatically create an azure authorization matrix

Automatically create an azure authorization matrix

Maintaining who has permission to which part of Azure is an ongoing battle for OPS teams. Especially in environments where permissions change a lot. In this blogpost I will show a new powershell module and how you can use it to automate the creation of a authorization matrix.

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Automatic PAT renewal for Azure DevOps

Automatic PAT renewal for Azure DevOps

When using Azure DevOps there are situations where you need to use Personal Access Tokens (PAT). For example when interacting with the azure devops REST api to for example add comments to a work items from a schedules job on a VM.
Because we want PAT’s with a short lifetime incase they get leaked we need a system to renew them periodically. Since last year this can be done with a newly introduced API. In this post I will explain how to use this API.

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Test Powershell code quality automatically

Test Powershell code quality automatically

Do you recognize the situation where a new team member joins the team and writes a script. During the pull request you notice they don’t follow the coding standards you where following and you have to make a lot of comments to explain all the different standards you are using?

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