Two weeks ago, Microsoft announced Microsoft Applied Skills as part of the Microsoft Learn initiative (more info here). This is how Microsoft positions it, compared to the traditional certifications: I gave it a try with the "Secure storage for Azure Files and Azure...
Outputs in Bicep are super handy. They allow you to return values from your Bicep template or module. We often use this for returning values that cannot be known upfront, such as an IP address, principal Id, domain name, url... The challenge As long as we consume...
Before we can automate our infrastructure as code, there is always to need to grant the required permissions to our release pipelines. For GitHub Actions, this typically involved creating a Service Principal with a client secret. By storing those credentials as...
Security must be key for every cloud solution. Azure Policy is one of your biggest companions to ensure that you enforce certain security policies. You can configure them in audit, deny or modify mode. However, it often takes a while to see the results once you've...
A while ago, API Management received a default soft-delete feature. This is very handy for mission-critical workloads, because it protects against accidental removal. However, in development environments, this causes often friction, because you cannot toggle the...
With Your Azure Coach, I am regularly organizing trainings on Azure Kubernetes Service. To reduce the Azure hosting costs of these expensive clusters, I've implemented a Logic App that shuts down every evening all running AKS clusters. This is how it looks: Nightly...
Last week, I attended the INTEGRATE conference. Unlike other years, there were no real big announcements. However, I would like to share my main take-aways from the conference: Logic Apps Standard is the way forward The product team is really betting on the new and...