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As you build more with code in Azure, knowing the API versions to lean on is helpful. If you use ARM Snippets in Visual Studio Code or lean on the engineering within Visual Studio outright, you may decide to use different or newer APIs because you need specific or certain features. Well how do you check what APIs are available to use? First off, let's take a quick step back. Azure Resource Manger is comprised of REST APIs. REST stands for Representational State Transfer and A

In keeping with my recent UniFi theme, I wanted to take some time out and showcase that you can update your UDM Base or Pro via SSH. I'm not even going to lie and say my journey onto the UDM Base has been easy, because as soon as 1.9.X wound up pushed, I've been scrambling to maintain network sanity at home. I normally wait until the web GUI tells me I have outdated firmware, but the lack of consistency with these newer builds has forced me to update as soon as there's a new

Something I always felt wasn't called out well is how to use Key Vault secrets with ARM Templates. The Azure Quickstart Repository on GitHub left me without a decent clue (and that's where I used to go first and foremost when I'd experiment with code). Here's what will show up in that repository (GEN-PASSWORD): Now, the Quickstart repo on GitHub isn't trying to expose secrets, but to a brand new user of ARM Templates and Azure Resource Manager, I struggled to figure out how t

A random question sort of pushed itself into view recently: can you submit an ARM Template build as a job? Did you know you can? There are a number of reasons why you might consider going this route. The big one I can think of is your deployment may be a longer deployment and you might not care about getting a bunch of verbose messages every 10-ish seconds or so during the build process. Wouldn't it be better to build the environment as a job, and then check in every so often

So if you're like me, you've been having more and more conversations that are a bit of a stretch from your infrastructure roots. Everything turned software defined now that the cloud and cloud adoption have been gaining more traction over the years. I've noted something which can sometimes be a heady mess for me is source control. Turns out it's like most things in tech: the more you practice, the better you become. Which leads me to the topic of this blog: did you know you c

Now that I have your attention, know I've started digging into Bicep. It only makes sense, as I'm pretty deep into ARM Templates and generally believe automation can solve most problems that exist within the IT ecosystems in the wild. Turns out taking existing ARM Templates and transforming them into Bicep templates is relatively easy, but not without hiccups. Even the hiccups aren't as bad as I originally envisioned. Yes, even I can have Azure fatigue sometimes: "Oh, a new t