Microsoft Azure Effective ways to delete resources in a resource group on Azure in 2021 In Azure, resource groups are very helpful to logically hold together a set of resources. For many reasons, at some point, you'll want to get rid of these resources but
Microsoft Azure How-to use customer-managed keys with Azure Key Vault and Azure Storage encryption using ARM Template I got a question from a reader asking how to use the Managed Identity of a storage account against Azure Key Vault to enable storage encryption using customer-managed keys. The
Microsoft Azure How to incrementally update KeyVault access policies with ARM templates I was recently asked how to give access to an existing KeyVault to a managed identity that already have access policies configured. It's not a secret but not all know
Microsoft Azure There is a new way to reference managed identity in ARM template I have been using managed identity (aka Managed Service Identity - MSI) in Azure for several years now. It's a best practice and a very convenient way to assign an
Microsoft Azure How to easily deploy Azure Hybrid Use Benefit (BYOL) virtual machines from marketplace images and Azure Resource Manager Template Not so long ago it was possible (but painful) to deploy Windows Server virtual machines with the Azure Hybrid Use Benefit. I am glad to let you know that it's
Azure Key Vault Creating Azure Key Vault with logging using Azure Resource Manager ARM templates If you are looking to create an Azure Key Vault, have full visibility/traceability over who access it and what they did while preventing accidental deletes of your vault, you
Azure Resource Manager Error when deploying App Service Plan using template, 'Required property 'name' not found in JSON. Path ''.' Just a quick article to save you the time it took me to realize what exactly was the problem in my template because the error message was not of much
Microsoft Azure How to refer an Azure Key Vault secret in an Azure Resource Manager deployment template We live in a world where data and security is not to be taken lightly. Having to create or maintain a system that enable you to keep secrets and/or
Microsoft Azure Effective ways to delete resources in a resource group on Azure Under Azure Resource Manager, resource groups are very helpful to logically hold together a set of resources. For many reasons, at some point, you'll want to get rid of these
Azure Resource Manager I am presenting: Deployment with Azure Resource Management templates and GIT on March 3rd 2016 I am glad to present a session on March 3rd 2016 for MITPro (Montreal IT Professional Community) at the Delta Hotel in Montreal. Here is the detail of my session
Microsoft Azure Create an Azure Key Vault using an ARM template (api version 2015-06-01) and Azure PowerShell v1.0.4 We live in a world where data and security is not to be taken lightly. Having to create or maintain a system that enable you to keep secrets and/or
Microsoft Azure Best practices: How to handle sensitive data in Azure Resource Manager templates using Key Vault Have you ever wondered how you could land in the DevOps world of Config-as-Code without storing configuration secrets (e.g. passwords) as plain text in source control? In this series
Microsoft Azure Use uniqueString() function to generate unique names for resources in ARM template When playing with ARM templates in a team, you need a way to come up with unique names for your DNS dependent resources on Azure like storage accounts and public
Microsoft Azure How to create a virtual machine from a custom image using an ARM template Wish you could deploy your own virtual machines from a custom image (specialized or generalized) using an Azure Resource Manager template? He're is how to do it... Prerequisites A custom
