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Flexing your Security Governance with Azure Policy as Code

3 minute read

I recently had the pleasure of presenting a livestream session via Microsoft Reactor Sydney on a subject close to my heart.

Talking Azure Policy as Code on CtrlAltAzure podcast

4 minute read

Appearing as a guest on the Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast to talk Azure Policy as Code with hosts Tobias Zimmergren and Jussi Roine

How to Win vs Azure Policy Non-Compliance

5 minute read

Fixing a design flaw with the existenceCondition for builtin policies

HashiTalks ANZ: DRY Coding with Terraform, CSVs, ForEach

5 minute read

How combining Terraform with CSVs and ForEach we can deploy at scale from large datasets

Global Azure: Policy as Code with Bicep for Enterprise Scale

2 minute read

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?

Azure Spring Clean: DINE to Automate your Monitoring Governance with Azure Monitor Metric Alerts

16 minute read

Discover patterns for leveraging DeployIfNotExists (DINE) policies to automate your Azure Monitoring Governance with Azure Monitor Metric Alerts

Ansible on Azure Part 3

5 minute read

Discover Ansible role development patterns on Azure using the Molecule-Azure driver

Ansible on Azure Part 2

12 minute read

Discover how Terraform IaC can automate your Ansible control host deployment into Azure

Ansible on Azure Part 1

6 minute read

Discover the Ansible on Azure development ecosystem, key advantages/disadvantages, and how to get started

Using GitHub Actions and Terraform for IaC Automation

8 minute read

Combine GitHub Actions and Terraform to achieve an automated Infrastructure as Code workflow

Azure Policy as Code with Terraform Part 2

13 minute read

Look under the hood of an example repository I created to deploy a set of custom Azure policies, initiatives, and assignments

Migrating your Azure Tags with PowerShell

5 minute read

How to migrate existing Azure tag values to new tag key/value pairs programmatically using PowerShell

Azure Policy as Code with Terraform Part 1

8 minute read

Discover patterns for usage of Azure Policy as Code with Terraform and examine deployment methodologies, module structures, Azure policy best-practices, and ...

Removing Unknown Azure RBAC Role Assignments with PowerShell

5 minute read

How to programmatically find and remove ‘Unknown’ type Azure RBAC role assignments with PowerShell

Cloud Governance with Azure Policy Part 2

8 minute read

Intro to the Azure Policy extension for VSCode and authoring custom policy definitions by finding property aliases

Cloud Governance with Azure Policy Part 1

5 minute read

Introduction to the audit vs deny debate, native tooling, and governance at scale

Azure Building Blocks - The Forgotten IaC Tool

7 minute read

Putting Azure Building Blocks to the test with a simple Hub & Spoke VNET deployment

Quick Intro to Azure Backup Explorer

2 minute read

All you need to know about Azure Backup Explorer released in preview Feb 2020

0.09ms using Azure Proximity Placement Groups

3 minute read

Intro to Proximity Placement Groups demonstrating how to deploy a test environment

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exams

Passed AZ-400 Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions

9 minute read

Discover the ‘Just Enough Study’ concept and learn how to hunt key phrases using Azure Text Analytics

Your 2020 Study Guide to Azure DevOps Solutions (AZ-400)

10 minute read

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: Az...

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