Use traffic analytics to spot common azure network mistakes
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In this blog post I will explain how you can use some functions of the Azure Network Watcher to spot some problems in your azure networking very easily.
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Use PowerApps for an automation Front-End
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Often we build nice automation but actually getting this to the users is hard. With PowerApps we now have plenty of options to make simple and nice front-ends without much code. In this blog I will explain some option to build a nice front-end with PowerApps.
Read MoreAutomatic rollback for Azure deploy with pipeline
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Once your deployment fails often you need to do a manual rollback. In this blogpost I will explain how to use AzureDevOps pipelines to create a CI/CD pipeline which will automatically revert back to the last known good configuration.
Read MoreBuilding a full MSP automation workflow in Azure DevOps
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In this blogpost I write about how we handle the automation workflow at my employer OGD ICT-diensten. By using several different parts of Azure DevOps.
Read MoreParse JWT tokens in Azure Logic Apps
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Ever wondered how you can validate claims in a JWT token inside a azure logic app? This blog explains how to do it.
Read MoreAutomatically create an azure authorization matrix
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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.
Read MoreParallel processing in Azure logic apps
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Azure logic apps can be used to automate things without writing code, but because a lot of stuff happens under the hood your workflow might corrupt your data. By looking at the different ways you can handle parallel processing of data in logic apps you can prevent this data to be corrupted and maybe in the meantime increase the runtime of your apps!
Read MoreAutomatic PAT renewal for Azure DevOps
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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.
Deploy azure policy with azure devops
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In this post we are going to deploy this policy automatically to Azure and remove all manual labor. We are also going to add unit tests and integration tests to this pipeline to make sure that we can create a proper ci/cd flow.
Read MoreAutomatically tag azure vm's behind a load balancer
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When managing virtual machines in Azure it’s often useful to tag these machines based on certain criteria. These tags can be used to filter the virtual machines for certain services. To make sure that virtual machines will always have the right tags we can use Azure Policies. In this blog post I will describe how you can make an Azure Policy which automatically tags virtual machines behind a load balancer or application gateway.
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