2020-01

What's Going On In Deploy-AzureResourceGroup? - Part Zero

Hello! When creating Azure Resource Group projects, a PowerShell file is added to the project. The intended use of this file is to be used to deploy the Resource Group both locally and in a pipeline. This file is called Deploy-AzureResourceGroup. But at over 200 lines long, there seems to be quite a lot going on. And what exactly is going on? In short, it’s a helpful file, but tries to be all things to all people, with very little documentation.

2020-01-31

2019-07

Why Job Schedules Suck in ARM Templates Part 2

Last week I wrote about some of the fun I have had with job schedules and ARM Templates. In short ARM cannot re-deploy job schedules and so you have to delete them prior to re-deploying, or do a sort of merge statement. But because time is short deleting them seems to work well enough. Something like this: $automationAccountJobSchedules = Get-AzureRmAutomationScheduledRunbook -AutomationAccountName $AutomationAccountName -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroupName -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue Write-Host "Removing any job schedules off automation account $($AutomationAccountName): this is because of this bug https://feedback.

2019-07-15

Depending on Copy Completion in ARM Templates (and why Job Schedules Suck in ARM Templates)

Hello! In the world of Azure, resources move fast. And sometimes too fast for my liking: no sooner had I automated a runbook to start some VM’s that were Self-Hosted Integration Runtimes and invoke an ADF Pipeline did I discover that Microsoft announced in December that Azure Scheduler will retire on 30th of September 2019. Of course this sort of announcement was completely missed as I borrowed heavily from someone elses piece of work, because why reinvent the wheel.

2019-07-10

2019-02

ARM Deployments and Nested Templates: A Real Hot Mess

Hello! (For this post I’m going to be referencing a project that I uploaded last week to GitHub. It creates some VM’s and installs the self-hosted integration runtime used by ADF activities. The last bit is not really relevant, but to get the most out of this post some experience with ARM and terraform would be handy. But you should be able to look at that project and follow it, hopefully!

2019-02-18