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problems with manual or manually executed script deployments to servers. The proliferation of public cloud and the perception of unlimited scale and instant availability only calls greater attention to the issues of slow, unreliable deployment. Infrastructure as Code ultimately offers more stable environments at a rapid pace and high scale.

sprints. Depending on the length of your sprints, and the fact that you can bulk add sprints, you probably either end up creating the next sprint during sprint planning or create every sprint manually.

Pipeline for PowerShell modules. I told everyone I?d get a blog post up ?soon? with more information, so here it is; better late than never! I?ll go over the goals for the example PowerShell Module, then break down the Build Pipeline tasks for Azure DevOps.

automation and DevOps tasks. I also create reporting dashboards from the data within the work items. One such metric I report on is how much time we save when implementing a new automation.

users give permissions consent to any Azure application that is in the wild. Because it can lead to illicit consent grant attack which seems to be more and more popular among the hackers.

scope levels. To provide this functionality the multiple scopes within Azure Resource Manager are represented (example below) within Git. Using directories and files, templates can be deployed (Push) at various scopes whilst also exporting (Pull) composite templates from ARM and placing them within the repository.

way to leverage Azure Arc is by automating script execution

the steps manually can be easily forgotten and re-signing needs to happen after every script change. Because I like CI/CD topics and have not found a solution on the internet I decided to build a solution based on Azure capabilities. Furthermore, I wanted a solution which does not require to hand out the code signing certificate to the respective script author which can be useful if you have a bunch of people writing PowerShell scripts.

actually start? Especially when you've been writing PowerShell which is often used as automation language, but not actually as programming language?

Changelog 1.0.0 format. The primary feature is automatic updating of changelogs at release time in a CI/CD workflow via Update-Changelog.

Configuration) - a PowerShell Module that represents your entire Microsoft 365 tenant's configuration as code and allows DevOps to monitor and control configuration discrepancies.

this post how to create and pack a basic PowerShell Module, and publish it into Azure Artifact using Azure DevOps YAML Pipelines.

it has. That said, what if you want to retain releases from another environment or you want to set your own retention policy? Learn more in this article.

so on. But what's it to you? A customer recently reminded me that there are little end to end module build and release howto's that assume little and help you get up to speed. In this post, we'll try to cover a lot of ground. None of the topics will be deep-dived into as every topic is documented very well online. Quick warning: I might add some images in the future to break this long post up ever so slightly.

when you finish writing your routine. There's formatting, branches to merge, and builds to create just to name just a few. Many of those tasks are tedious and repetitive, which makes them ripe for automation; but how?

GitHub Actions with PowerShell can save you time and be more efficient. What does it do? It does that automatically once every day, I could do it more, but didn't think it was necessary.

and use your GitHub repository.

Azure environment but also my on-premises environment. I find Azure automation to be a great solution for managing and running your automation, instead of having them run on a server with scheduled tasks.

using Azure DevOps Nuget Feed. After this tutorial, you will be able to upload and download your Powershell modules and scripts from the repository over the internet securely.

I will provide a detailed walk-through and demo of how to use the Azure DevOps REST API with PowerShell.

a PowerShell pipeline? By using the tips and techniques you'll learn in this article, you'll be well on your way to scripting your way to automation greatness.

you though the manual installation process, and configuration of Git.

feed. This way all uploads, updates to version are traceable. The pipeline will download this package during its build, and publish it as an artefact (named patch) for the deployment stages where the software will copied to and installed on the servers For every environment provided in parameters Environments, the software will be attempted to be installed on the servers via PowerShell scripts. Azure DevOps is the orchestrator, but the PoSh script does the heavy lifting.

Azure cloud.

Jan-Hendrik Peters. We learned about what AutomatedLab is used for and how you can benefit from it. We also got to hear about his observations from teaching PowerShell over the years. All this, plus our usual foolishness, is included. We also talk about how tech is always changing.

process. A service hook is triggered when a new Pull Request is created in Azure DevOps, sending a webhook to an Azure Function. This function analyzes the request body, gets all commits in the Pull Request, and sends it to Open AI's API, which generates a Pull Request message detailing all of the proposed changes from the commits and writes it back to the Azure DevOps Pull Request.

pipelines. In the EUC environments, PowerShell is the primary scripting language to get these deployments automated. By using Pester the quality of the produced PowerShell code can be increased, which will result in a higher success rate of the DevOps pipeline. This blog post will provide some guidance and pointers how to use Pester in the Azure DevOps pipelines.

playground. But once stuff is getting serious, you might find that projects and repo's have collected in a counterintuitive way and you want to change the project structure. Moving the repos can be done in the portal, but it is a bit of a challenge if there are a lot of them. In this post I will explain how you can migrate Azure DevOps repos with PowerShell.

friend OpenAI Chat GPT 3. OpenAI Chat GPT uses a human-spoken natural language to generate your desired code. So all you need to do is describe what you want your script to do, and...

the tips and techniques you'll learn in this article, you'll be well on your way to scripting your way to automation greatness.

power up those scripts into PuppetBolt Tasks so you can easily automate and share to any Windows environment at scale.

nightly, static, or any other version of PowerShell.

briefly discussed the challenges of working from Home. We learned how Adil got started in the PowerShell community including getting involved in the PowerShell Slack/Discord, attending PowerShell Summit, and even stepping up and helping put on an event: BridgeConf. Adil convinces Jordan to submit to speak at Summit 2023, and Jordan agrees. The crowd goes wild! We tried to capture the code that we ran on this episode in a transcript file, which can be found below.

win_shell and you wish to consume the PowerShell output later on in the playbook. Well, you’re in luck because Jonathan can show you the quick and easy to way how.

of linting for PRs, as you do. The go-to for PowerShell seems to be PSScriptAnalyzer and it's something I've already setup in VS Code. Great! The next step was to setup

Linux and Windows.

environment. Today I'll explain how to allow only one instance of a script at a time.

written by Kent Beck. However I've added a twist, as I will be attempting to do the examples using Powershell.

level and automate everything!

grown over the years and is a great resource to connect with the community and have your questions answered. Cory and Jordan find common ground in their experiences with Toastmasters. Cory also talks to us about Git, how to get started using Git for PowerShell projects, an awesome PowerShell module to enhance your Git console experience, and more.

discussed the importance of psychological safety in the workplace, transitioning to DevOps, and learning Python as a PowerShell user. Dave also shared some great advice from Jeffrey Snover: "Do things in small patches and don't be a jerk." Tune in to hear all the great advice and tips from Dave!

more for Mastodon links in their name, bio or pinned tweet. Once found, their info is exported to a CSV file that can be imported into Mastodon.