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

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...Read More

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...Read More

Intro In this post, I want to show you how to deploy a .Net 6.0 website to Azure using Azure DevOps. I will create a demo website in Visual Studio using the Microsoft provided templates and publish the website to Azure using a pipeline. Workflow The flow for the demo website is simple. I update text on the website and...Read More

Intro I want to create the Azure resources needed to build Azure Functions in this post. I will guide you through the necessary bicep files to deploy a Storage Account, Application Insights, App Service Plan, and the Azure Function. You will deploy everything with code by the end of this post, including a demo...Read More

Intro I have previously written a post on how to use Azure Key Vault with GitHub Actions, and this time I want to show you have to use Key Vault with Bicep deployments in Azure. The reason behind using Key Vault is to avoid having any passwords or secrets stored in templates. Using Key Vault, I can reference a secret...Read More