The Ecosystem surrounding Terraform is growing every day. Some of the tools have become essential and need to be integrated into your CI/CD pipelines. Here are some examples using Azure DevOps.

Retrieving a list of all Azure AD role assignments sounds easy enough, right? Well, there are some things to consider, here is waht.

Some resources in Terraform allow to pass them a list if multiple values can be set - for instance, DNS servers for the azurerm_virtual_network can be set this way. However, on the same resouce, you can add subnet during the creation and this would not work in the same way, because each subnet requires their own subnet-block in the resource. However, Terraform offers a way to create mutiple blocks of the same kind dynamically - using the dynamic-block.

I’ve been waiting a long time for this and its finally here - PowerShell Support for Azure Functions v2 is generally available and ready for production! On the 4th of November at Ignite 2019, the general availability has been announced. This alone is a big step for automating tasks in Azure, but there is more, the Product Group also announced the general availability of the Premium Plan for Azure Functions! With this, Azure Function Apps can seamlessly be integrated within your VNet.

On the 5th of April 2019, Steve Lee announced two things, the general availability of PowerShell Core 6.2 and the the next major version, PowerShell 7.
In this post we will keep track of the changes in PowerShell 7 and will provide an overview of the new lifecycle management.

PowerShell can manage NuGet packages since a few years now, but loading a dll, which is part of a installed NuGet package in PowerShell is not that intuitive.

Whats not to love about PowerShell in Azure Functions? 🙂
In this part, I will give you an overview on how I write my functions and I also added some more compute functions.

In almost every Azure Tenant I use, I have one Azure Function App that helps me to be more productive. Since the first day of the introduction Azure Functions, I used them to
automate different tasks. Over the time, the collection of functions became quite big and I would love to share them with you so you can benefit from them as well 🙂

If you are working with PowerShell frequently, you will often run into the question of logging. How do I want to write logs, where to write them and which format should they have. We wont go into these questions here, however, we will take a look at how to implement PowerShell logging in a non-blocking (async) way.

Recently, I had the problem of monitoring the latency of my internet connection to provide these information to my ISP for troubleshooting. As the standard ping class in .net and Test-NetConnection was too inflexible and had no timestamps, I wanted to create a PowerShell Script to provide these functionality. Classes were something I haven’t used in a while so I chose to create a PowerShell class called AdvancedPing.