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...Read More

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...Read More

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...Read More

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...Read More

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...Read More

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...Read More