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Private endpoints when using Azure Service Bus geo-replication

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Connectivity gotcha when using private endpoints with Azure Service Bus georeplication

Microsoft Copilot in Azure - Review

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Reviewing David Rendón and Steve Miles’ book Microsoft Copliot in Azure: AI-powered cloud automation and optimization

Azure for Developers - Review

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Reviewing Kamil Mrzygłód’s book Azure for Developers

The Azure Cloud Native Architecture Mapbook - Review

Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Reviewing Stéphane Eyskens book The Azure Cloud Native Architecture Mapbook

Using PagerDuty Orchestration with Azure Alerts

Sat, 22 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Configuring Azure alert action groups with the PagerDuty v2 api

Configuring diagnostic settings for Azure services using bicep

Fri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

If you’re hosting your application infrastructure in Azure and consolidate the diagnostic and audit information from your services into Log Analytics or elsewhere, it’s pretty easy to do using Bicep. It’s not very well documented, however, which is the reason for this post.

Deploying an Azure Container App Environment within a virtual network using bicep

Fri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

When working on a project recently I needed to deploy a Container App Environment within a virtual network in Azure. Thanks to the joys of internet search, I started off reading the wrong bits of the official documention and got incredibly confused, and much of the community content about this uses out of date schemas and code. This article is so I don’t need to go through that again, and hopefully it will help others, too.

Using bicep to define Service Bus scaling rules for Azure Container Apps

Fri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I recently needed to set KEDA scaling rules on an Azure Container app that used the number of messages in a Service Bus queue. There’s plenty of info out there on the internet about scaling rules, but not when it comes to Service Bus, so I’m writing up what I learned here.

Importing bicep lint output as test results in Azure DevOps pipelines

Mon, 05 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Bicep is a great improvement over ARM Templates but doesn’t remove the need to validate our code at build time. I could continue to use the ARM-TTK and validate the generated template, but bicep has it’s own built in rules. Getting build errors in a way that can provide meaningful information in my CI/CD tooling is an interesting challenge.

Define Once, Deploy Everywhere (Sort of...)

Thu, 02 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Using Lability, DSC and ARM to define and deploy multi-VM environments
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Configuration as code crops up a lot in conversation these days. We are searching for that DevOps Nirvana of a single definition of our environment that we can deploy anywhere.

Creating Website Slots and SQL Elastic Pools using Azure Resource Templates

Wed, 18 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Recently I have been helping a number of organisations automate the deployment of their applications to Azure and came across a couple of scenarios that were not documented: Deploying an App Services web site with slots and SQL connection string settings, and the creation of a SQL Elastic Pool. Of those, the SQL Elastic Pool I found to be written up already by Vincent-Philipe Lauzon and all credit to him - my template draws on his excellent article.

My Resource Templates from demos are now on GitHub

Fri, 26 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve had a number of people ask me if I can share the templates I use in my Resource Template sessions at conferences. It’s taken me a while to find the time, but I have created a repo on GitHub and there is a new Visual Studio solution and deployment project with my code.

Convert new VM’s dynamic IP address to static with Azure Resource Templates