Self Service Infrastructure
Why Implement Self Service Infrastructure
One of the many concepts of DevOps is the self service aspect of procuring new infrastructure for teams to work with. I think there are a number of ranges that these particular concept can be implemented. It can be from giving people direct access to their organizations cloud provider's . . .
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Azure Functions Proxies
Proxies are a nice addition to Azure Functions that give you a subset of features that an application gateway could provide for your function instances. It has request matching capabilities that let you inspect a specific route and send that request to a specific back-end. You can setup matches based on combinations of uri and HTTP method.
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ARM Templates: Reading Output Variables
When using ARM templates for your deployments you will find your build or your release pipeline in a situation where you need to get some of those generated values from your template or some references from the resources that ARM created in Azure for you.
I have a couple of PowerShell functions that end up getting leveraged . . .
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DotNetZero vNext
I've been working on a new version of dotnetzero (formerly psakezero). This v2 version has a number of changes that were fun to build.
Large refactoring into smaller PowerShell functions
I'm trying out an approach that takes each PowerShell function and places them into their own file. This was for a couple . . .
Azure IoT: Getting Started with our Cyber Chicken Coup
I figured since I fell into the parent trap of "Dad, we promise we'll take care of them — this time it's chickens edition" I might as well play around with some electronics to them take care of the them.
So I picked up a official Azure Internet of Things developer kit, frankly because the price seemed . . .
Azure Resource Manager Templates in your Continuous Delivery Pipeline
Infrastructure as Code
What is an ARM Template
There are a number of ways to setup your Azure environment to run your systems. You can use the Azure portal to manually click and type in your configurations. This is where most people start. You can also use a couple of terminal options with the Azure CLI and Azure Powershell. The third option is using Azure . . .
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Adding Let's Encrypt to your Azure Web App
Securing your Azure Web App with a SSL certificate
This is no longer an option. Sites need to be served over SSL and I don't think that there are a lot of solid arguments contrary to this approach. There are numerous methods to obtaining an SSL certificate but the service I'm going to be using for this post is . . .
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