cloud · 27 November 2025
Terragrunt Tips and Tricks From The Field
Discover three distinct Terragrunt file patterns for managing your Terraform at scale.
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cloud · 24 November 2025
Lessons Learned Adopting Azure Virtual WAN
Discover lessons learned adopting Azure Virtual WAN from a traditional hub and spoke architecture
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cloud · 21 November 2025
Awesome Azure Policy Chapter 3
Highlighting the latest awesome content from across the community and official Microsoft sources
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cloud · 20 November 2025
Palo Alto Cloud NGFW SCM Deployment with Terraform
Learn how to deploy Palo Alto Cloud Next-Generation Firewall with Strata Cloud Manager integration using Terraform.
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cloud · 27 April 2025
Managing Azure Databricks Workspace IP Access Lists via CICD
How you can manage Azure Databricks (ADB) Workspace IP access lists via CICD and DevOps processes
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devops · 31 October 2024
Deleting 600 Git Remote Branches
An audit-before-delete approach to cleaning up hundreds of stale Git remote branches.
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cloud · 15 August 2024
Awesome Azure Policy Chapter 2
Highlighting the latest awesome content from across the community and official Microsoft sources
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cloud · 25 September 2023
Awesome Azure Policy Chapter 1
Highlighting the latest awesome Azure Policy content from across the community and official Microsoft sources
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cloud · 27 February 2023
5 Tips To Automate Your Cloud Compliance
Key inputs to planning and structuring your policy coverage to take full advantage of Azure Policy’s automatic remediation capabilities.
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cloud · 2 February 2022
Flexing your Security Governance with Azure Policy as Code
I recently had the pleasure of presenting a livestream session via Microsoft Reactor Sydney on a subject close to my heart.
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cloud · 21 January 2022
Awesome Azure Policy Origin Story
This is the Awesome Azure Policy origin story
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cloud · 25 November 2021
Talking Azure Policy as Code on CtrlAltAzure podcast
Appearing as a guest on the Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast to talk Azure Policy as Code with hosts Tobias Zimmergren and Jussi Roine
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cloud · 25 July 2021
How to Win vs Azure Policy Non-Compliance
Fixing a design flaw with the existenceCondition for builtin policies
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cloud · 28 April 2021
HashiTalks ANZ: DRY Coding with Terraform, CSVs, ForEach
How combining Terraform with CSVs and ForEach we can deploy at scale from large datasets
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cloud · 18 April 2021
Global Azure: Policy as Code with Bicep for Enterprise Scale
Recently I've been diving into Microsoft's new DSL Bicep and as I'm passionate about Azure Policy I thought why not combine both aspects into a session?
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cloud · 21 March 2021
Azure Spring Clean: DINE to Automate your Monitoring Governance with Azure Monitor Metric Alerts
Discover patterns for leveraging DeployIfNotExists (DINE) policies to automate your Azure Monitoring Governance with Azure Monitor Metric Alerts
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exams · 28 January 2021
Passed AZ-400 Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions
Discover the 'Just Enough Study' concept and learn how to hunt key phrases using Azure Text Analytics
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personal · 5 January 2021
What The Heck Happened In 2020
After such a 2020 memorable year (for both good & bad reasons) I've been itching to publish my retrospective
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cloud · 10 November 2020
Ansible on Azure Part 1
Discover the Ansible on Azure development ecosystem, key advantages/disadvantages, and how to get started
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Ansible on Azure Part 2
Discover how Terraform IaC can automate your Ansible control host deployment into Azure
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Ansible on Azure Part 3
Discover Ansible role development patterns on Azure using the Molecule-Azure driver
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m365 · 22 October 2020
Automate Microsoft Teams desktop settings with PowerShell
How to manage Teams desktop client settings automatically with PowerShell
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cloud · 4 August 2020
Using GitHub Actions and Terraform for IaC Automation
Combine GitHub Actions and Terraform to achieve an automated Infrastructure as Code workflow
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cloud · 30 June 2020
Azure Policy as Code with Terraform Part 2
Look under the hood of an example repository I created to deploy a set of custom Azure policies, initiatives, and assignments
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cloud · 15 June 2020
Migrating your Azure Tags with PowerShell
How to migrate existing Azure tag values to new tag key/value pairs programmatically using PowerShell
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cloud · 9 June 2020
Azure Policy as Code with Terraform Part 1
Discover patterns for usage of Azure Policy as Code with Terraform and examine deployment methodologies, module structures, Azure policy best-practices, and Terraform best-practices
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cloud · 20 May 2020
Removing Unknown Azure RBAC Role Assignments with PowerShell
How to programmatically find and remove 'Unknown' type Azure RBAC role assignments with PowerShell
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cloud · 18 May 2020
Cloud Governance with Azure Policy Part 1
Introduction to the audit vs deny debate, native tooling, and governance at scale
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cloud · 18 May 2020
Cloud Governance with Azure Policy Part 2
Intro to the Azure Policy extension for VSCode and authoring custom policy definitions by finding property aliases
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cloud · 4 March 2020
Azure Building Blocks - The Forgotten IaC Tool
Putting Azure Building Blocks to the test with a simple Hub & Spoke VNET deployment
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events · 28 February 2020
My experience at Microsoft Containers OpenHack featuring Kubernetes challenges
The underlying theme of OpenHack is that there's no clear path forward through the challenges and the 'unknown' factor is ever present
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blogging · 17 February 2020
OpenSource Blogging with Jekyll GitHub VSCode
Introduction to getting setup with your own blog site using Jekyll GitHub VSCode
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cloud · 10 February 2020
Quick Intro to Azure Backup Explorer
All you need to know about Azure Backup Explorer released in preview Feb 2020
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cloud · 7 February 2020
0.09ms using Azure Proximity Placement Groups
Intro to Proximity Placement Groups demonstrating how to deploy a test environment
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Your 2020 Study Guide to Azure DevOps Solutions (AZ-400)
With Microsoft announcing sweeping changes to a few Azure exams later in March 2020 the time is ripe to blog about an exam I’ve had my eye on for a while: Azure DevOps Solutions (AZ-400).
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identity · 6 February 2020
AD FS 2016 and InvalidNameIDPolicy using SAML Authentication to SailPoint IdentityNow
The resolution to this problem for me was to ensure that an SPNameQualifier value was sent as a claim property from AD FS to IdentityNow
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security · 6 February 2020
Zero-Touch BitLocker with PowerShell
The heart and soul of all this is a single PowerShell script
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