2018-04

PowerShell Snippet 13 - Skip Logging Into Azure Everytime With This One Simple Trick

Hello! I have been working an awful lot with ARM Templates and publishing resources using PowerShell. As part ofhte process we’re using a Service Endpoint to publish resoruces to Azure. So the login and subscription context are set by the endpoint itself. However, when running the scripts locally, it is necessary to login first. so you have two choices - login before running the script, which isn’t always possible, or include Login-AzureRmAccount in every script, and then obviously forget to remove it prior to checking in and wondering why releases takes forever…

2018-04-27

How Not To Create Your Service Principals for VSTS/ARM Connections

Hello! I’ve recently started a new project, and we’re going to use VSTS for the build and release pipeline. This includes deploying infrastructure from ARM templates. This is going to provide its own set of challenges, in that the VSTS Team is new and there is no authentication between VSTS and the Subscription the objects are deploying to. So it really is a “green field” project. But this is a good thing, as we get to deploy as much as we can from source control and limit the interaction with the Azure Portal.

2018-04-16