From Proof of Concept to Production: Modernizing Azure Private DNS with Bicep and Azure DevOps

GitHub Repository | Azure Bicep | Azure DevOps | Azure Landing Zones | Infrastructure as Code | Private Endpoint As organizations adopt Azure Landing Zones, application teams often deploy workloads into dedicated subscriptions while shared platform services—such as Private DNS—are managed separately. This separation improves governance and security, but it also introduces a challenge: how […]

Uploading repo files to Azure storage

Welcome to the last post for 2023 (123123). I was recently presented with an interesting challenge by one of our application development teams and thought this would make a good addition. There is a customer portal application running in Azure that makes use of configuration files (*.JSON and *.XML) to provide custom experiences based on […]

Automating DR using PowerShell and Azure DevOps pipelines

We recently started a project to set up automated deployments of Azure resources using Azure DevOps pipelines. The first service we folded into ADO was an extremely high profile one for the business. It’s used by all the employees and contractors for capturing project capitalization and expense hours by asset and resource. After having successfully […]

Reporting on untagged resources

Update 4/7/2020: To align with best practices, I’m looking into the possibility of adding support for grabbing secret information from an Azure KeyVault as opposed to having it stored directly in the script. Welcome to my first Azure post!  Within a few weeks at the new job, I was asked by management if it was […]