Intro This blog series will create and maintain Azure resources using GitHub repositories, GitHub Actions, and Terraform. I will use this blog series to build out a new Azure tenant that I have created, and I thought I might share what I was doing along the way. If you have any questions about this blog series, please reach out to me. The design I am working on right now is outlined below.

Intro One of the questions I have gotten from customers is, what happens if I run my deployment script of a VM multiple times? For instance, if the customer has a script that runs an ARM or Bicep template with multiple virtual machines, what will happen to the already running machine if they add a new one? Let us have a look at that in this blog post. I have used the Microsoft documentation as a guideline for this blog post.

Intro It has been a while since my latest post, primarily due to a lot of presentations at work and the fact that I got into the Microsoft MVP program. I have spent quite a bit of time figuring out what that means and participating in the Microsoft MVP summit. The MVP summit spread over three days, and during those three days, I participated in almost 24 hours of teams meetings with the product teams.

Intro In this post, I want to show you how to set up Azure Migrate with VMware vSphere. I will go through the entire process of discovering, testing, and migrating virtual servers from my home lab environment into Azure. It will be a long post with many pictures, but I don’t feel splitting it into a series makes sense. I have used the Microsoft documentation as a guideline for this blog post.

Intro Azure Template Specs is an option for storing Azure ARM templates inside Azure to ease sharing templates across your organization. Accessing Template Specs is controlled with RBAC assignments, making Template Specs security like most other Azure resources. Template Specs deploys resources in Azure and is compatible with the tools we know already, so PowerShell, Azure CLI, Pipelines, and the Azure Portal. To deploy from a Template Spec, a user only needs “Reader” permissions to the Template Spec, but permissions to create the resource in Azure are also required.

Intro Lately, I have been looking at Azure dashboards to provide a quick overview of services running in Azure. In this post, I want to show you how to create a dashboard showing the state of virtual machines, S2S VPN connections, and network peerings. Azure Resource Graph Explorer (RGE) The base for the dashboards in this post is RGE. I will create some queries to generate the data I want to show on my dashboard.

Intro Building on my last article on integrating Azure DevOps into Microsoft Teams, I want to show you how to incorporate dashboards and kanban boards. The integrations can be helpful when co-workers might not be inside Azure DevOps every day but are using Teams. Some of the integration can also provide co-workers/users the ability to create bug reports without having them inside your Azure DevOps environment. This article will add two dashboards and one kanban board into a Microsoft Teams channel.

Intro I want to show how to add Azure DevOps into Microsoft Teams in this post. I will show how to add the App to Teams and integrate it with the DevOps pipeline. The integration will display any pipeline actions, and it will also post any approval action into teams. With this integration, you can delegate activities in DevOps to coworkers who are not comfortable with Azure DevOps but are very pleased with Teams.

After being annoyed with WordPress, I decided to try something new. This week I looked at alternatives to WordPress, and going back and forth, I ended up with Hugo and Azure Static Web Apps as the solution. It is a very cheap solution, but also very powerful. I can use VS Code for writing blogs, and when I commit my code to GitHub, it will use a GitHub action to publish the changes to Azure Static Web Apps.

2021 has been a busy year for me, but in a good way. January, I started in a new role as Cloud Solution Specialist with edgemo A/S. It was strange to start the new position with Covid-19 still going strong, but it worked out great with the team I joined. We did meet at the office the first two days, but it was pretty much working from home for quite sometime after that.