2021-10

The Many Ways to Authenticate to Azure from Python In One Simple Class

Hello! I’ve been working on a script to login to Azure to interract with some resources that have been deployed by terraform. I want this script to be able to run locally on my machine and as well as part of a yaml pipeline. Initially I thought this was going to be quite tricky, in that I’d need to determine when to run the ClientSecretCredential or when to run one of the other authentication classes, like the AzureCliCredential or even the UsernamePasswordCredential.

2021-10-07

2020-06

Export External Tables from Azure Databricks Workspace

Hello! I recently needed to export the “CREATE” statements for any hive tables on an Azure Databricks Instance whose paths were set externally to an Azure Datalake. Other htan changing the output_folder and hte name(s) of your mount points below this script should run on any Workspace. There is a little work to be done with regards to the order of objects saved to the csv files, as views require the tables to be created first before they can run, but seeing as I only had to run this once I manually re-ran the small number of views that failed.

2020-06-30

2020-04

Pokémon ASCII Art Maker

Hello! If you know me you will know that I like Pokémon a lot; just ask my daughter Eevee (kidding.) And you will also know that I enjoy doing silly things with computers. And last year I got into adding ASCII art to PowerShell Modules what I’ve written, and one piece of art was adding an ASCII forme of Aegislash to PoshSSDTBuildDeploy. I sourced the image from this amazing python module.

2020-04-14

2019-09

Printing Out Secret in Azure Databricks

Hello! back in August I posted a “how to expose secrets in your VSTS pipelines” post that promised to do exactly that. Now funnily enough I have been playing around with Azure Databricks lately and looking into using both Azure Keyvault and Databricks-backed Secrets and Scoping and remembering my post from last month, I wondered if it was possible. Come to find out it is! I added secret to called bob to a scope stored in KeyVault and another called phoebe to a DataBricks-backed scope and I was able to print them out easily enough.

2019-09-12