Microsoft Upgrade Assistant

Dotnet Core has been released for a very long time now and everyone is getting on the cutting edge of the SDK technology when it is realeased. However, there has been some assistance missing in helping, especially .Net Framework projects,  upgrade to the next version. Now 2021 they have brought the tooling out! and byContinueContinue reading “Microsoft Upgrade Assistant”

SSH to Hyper-V Virtual Machine using SSH.NET without IP Address

I have uses the Dotnet Core Nuget package SSH.NET to SSH into machines a few times, is a very simple, slick and handy tool to have. However, you cannot SSH into a Virtual Machine(VM) in Hyper-V that easy without some extra fiddling to get an exposed IP Address. With your standard SSH command you canContinueContinue reading “SSH to Hyper-V Virtual Machine using SSH.NET without IP Address”

Automate Security for Azure Container Registry

From March 2021 Azure is deprecating the Container Setting in Azure Web Apps, which changes you to use the new Development Center. This look very nice, but there is a change that is going to force you to have weaker security. This change is to have the Admin Credentials enabled, but there is something youContinueContinue reading “Automate Security for Azure Container Registry”

Merge Azure DevOps Pipeline Templates

As mentioned in my previous post about Azure DevOps Local Pipeline Testing, the available method of testing with the Azure DevOps API doesn’t have the feature to merge the YAML Templates. Therefore, I have set out to try and solve this issue.. You can view the full PowerShell script on GitHub.(https://github.com/PureRandom/AzureDevOpsYamlMerge-ps) Please feel free toContinueContinue reading “Merge Azure DevOps Pipeline Templates”

Testing Azure DevOps Pipelines Locally

I have tried and tried before, plus also read a lot of other people asking for the ability to test Azure YAML Pipelines locally. Now although it is not perfect and some room for improvement, Microsoft has create a way to test your pipeline with some local testing and remote testing without having to checkContinueContinue reading “Testing Azure DevOps Pipelines Locally”

Create Identity in Google Cloud Platform and GSuite

Compare to some other cloud providers, creating an identity via code in GCP is a little fragmented if your using GSuite for your identity storage. The Google Cloud Platform holds your users identity reference and permission, while the other system GSuite hold the security of the users authentication. This can also make the documentation feelContinueContinue reading “Create Identity in Google Cloud Platform and GSuite”

Push Docker Image to ACR without Service Connection in Azure DevOps

If you are like me and using infrastructure as code to deploy your Azure Infrastructure then using the Azure DevOps Docker task doesn’t work. To use this task you need to know what your Azure Container Registry(ACR) is and have it configured to be able to push your docker images to the registry, but you don’t know that yet. Here I show how you can still use Azure DevOps to push your images to a dynamic ACR.

Where to find Azure Tenant ID in Azure Portal?

Some of the documentation about Azure from Microsoft can be confusing and missing, including one I get ask ‘Where is the Tenant ID’. Below I give 3 locations, which there is probably, on where to find the Tenant ID in the portal. I have also added how to get the Tenant ID with the Azure CLI.