Chasing DevOps

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Category: CI/CD

  • Creating a User Assigned Managed Identity in an ARM Template

    I’m working on a new project that will use managed identities to access an SQL database from a function app. I chose to use a user-assigned identity to simplify our deployment scenario. We use deployment slots for zero downtime deployments and I want to assign a single identity to control database access across those slots. […]

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  • Powershell DSC Extension: Opening Firewall Ports with DSC

    I am NOT a systems administrator. But as I’m studying for the 70-532 exam one of the objectives is using the Powershell DSC extension. Most of the basic examples I’ve seen revolve around installing IIS, which was good but I wanted to try something else. So I decided to try opening firewall ports with DSC. […]

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  • Build ARM Templates to Simplify Deployments

    One of the first Azure-specific projects I worked on was a script to create all of the resources needed to run our application. It used the Azure Powershell module to build those resources and then deploy the application. That script saved a lot of time but it was error-prone and a headache to modify. Just […]

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Jesse Barocio

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