https://cloudyspells.github.io/Roderick Bant's personal blog on all things Azure Cloud, Infra-as-code and DevOps 2023-09-16T21:56:10+02:00 Roderick Bant https://cloudyspells.github.io/ Jekyll © 2023 Roderick Bant /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2023-09-16T00:00:00+02:00 2023-09-16T00:00:00+02:00 https://cloudyspells.github.io/posts/psrule-module-for-devops/ Roderick Bant

I have been a long time user of Azure DevOps and I have been using the Microsoft PSRule module for checking my Bicep templates for quite a while now. I like the flexible rule engine allowing to check for a wide range of issues. Now I have developed a PSRule module for checking Azure DevOps projects for common configuration issues. The module is available on GitHub and can be installed from the...

2023-09-05T00:00:00+02:00 2023-09-06T20:27:45+02:00 https://cloudyspells.github.io/posts/azure-devops-image-released/ Roderick Bant

Microsoft Hosted Azure DevOps agents are great for CI/CD in most projects with the extensive built-in set of popular tools. In practice however, their usability is limited because the Microsoft Hosted agents cannot be connected to a private network. License limitations prevent Microsoft from distributing the image used in their hosted pools. To speed up development and remove toil, a pre-built ...

2023-04-30T00:00:00+02:00 2023-04-30T00:00:00+02:00 https://cloudyspells.github.io/posts/co2-powerbi-refresh/ Roderick Bant

Recently I released the carbon-appinsights project. This project allows you to log emissions data from ElectricityMaps.com to an Application Insights instance. Today I released a first sample that demonstrates how you can use the Azure Monitor data to trigger a Power BI dataset refresh when carbon emissions are low in your region. Running the sample The sample is available on GitHub: clou...

2023-04-23T00:00:00+02:00 2023-04-23T22:24:49+02:00 https://cloudyspells.github.io/posts/carbon-appinsights-released/ Roderick Bant

Want to trigger Azure Logic Apps and Power Automate flows based on carbon emissions data? The Carbon AppInsights project has been released on GitHub! This project allows you to query the Carbon emissions data from the ElectricityMaps.com API and add it to an Azure Application Insights instance backed by a Log Analytics workspace. You can then use the metrics sent to Application Insights to tri...

2023-04-07T00:00:00+02:00 2023-04-07T20:49:37+02:00 https://cloudyspells.github.io/posts/learn-rooms/ Roderick Bant

Microsoft Learn Rooms has been announced this week and it seems to be a very exciting new blended learning experience for anyone looking to develop cloud skills in a supportive environment with peers and experts. Rooms not only consist of training, but also discussions and office hours sessions to ask questions to experts, Microsoft Certified Trainers and MVP’s and asynchronous possibilities t...