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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Parallel processing in Azure logic apps

Parallel processing in Azure logic apps

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!

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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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Automatically tag azure vm's behind a load balancer

Automatically tag azure vm's behind a load balancer

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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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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