So I absolutely love GitHub but when you're working with a bigger team in the same organization you want to have some standards in place. New repo's are constantly being created and everyone has a lot of freedom to configure…
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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…
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…
Running the Azure Resource Manager Template Toolkit on GitHub Actions
I recently decided I wanted to learn more about GitHub actions. After reading some documentation I thought it'd be a good idea to have a project/goal to work with when going through the learning materials. After going through the…
Automating change detection using Resource Graph and Change History

A few months ago Microsoft launched Change History for Azure Resource Graph. By default accessible through the Azure Activity Log and Azure Policy which allows you to inspect the changes made for a specific resource. But is that the way…