My highlights of the announcments from Microsoft Ignite 2020

Troubleshooting not being able to connect to a service on your Azure VM from the outside world.

Project Bicep is a new Microsoft DSL for deploying resources in Azure, built on top of ARM tempalets

Pulumi is an Infrastructure as Code tool that let’s you use real programming languages. Let’s look at how it works.

How to create a VM that requires a plan when using Azure CLI or PowerShell

How the design of the Azure API and some missing NSG rules caused some head scratching when getting started with Pulumi

WTH are Azure AD Security Defaults? Learn how you can use security defaults to secure your AAD tenant and get MFA for free.

WTH are Azure Reservations? Heres what they are and how they might save you money on Azure resources

How to combine a copy loop with conditions in an ARM template to dynamically generate resources based on parameters.

Terraform state files can contain sensitive data, here’s how you can store them securely in Azure