To improve my C# and .Net Core knowledge I was looking for a hobby project. As I'm currently running a couple of Philips Hue lights I thought it'd be a nice idea connect to them using an Azure Function. The…
Deploying ARM Templates with the arm-deploy GitHub Action
The arm-deploy GitHub Action was recently released by Microsoft ( https://github.com/marketplace/actions/arm-action [https://github.com/marketplace/actions/deploy-azure-resource-manager-arm-template] ). This action supports ARM Template deployments using GitHub Actions (surprise! and yay!). I decided to spend some time playing…
Azure Lighthouse - Control which managing tenants can be delegated to

The supporting features of Azure Lighthouse keep coming. Microsoft has recently released a new policy sample that allows you to control which tenants you can delegate access to. This sounds like a pretty simple thing but in reality it's a…
Using Azure Key Vault secrets in PowerShell scripting

I've been writing a lot of scripts lately and one of the things I come across often is the way people store credentials in a PowerShell script. Often they are either hardcoded (and people forget about them) or they are…
Working with Pull Requests, Status Checks, ARM Templates and GitHub Actions

Recently I've been using GitHub Actions more frequently and to follow up on my previous post [https://www.wesleyhaakman.org/running-arm-ttk-on-github-actions/], I thought I'd share my findings on deploying ARM templates. In more production-like scenarios, we're not just pushing to…