I’m doing a fair bit of work lately in VS Code devcontainers. They are an amazing way to create consistent development environments without having to install tools locally. I ran into an issue building PowerShell Docker images with modules installed (I specifically needed to install Az PowerShell, the Az ResourceGraph PowerShell module and Pester). Simple […]
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Execute arbitrary PowerShell or Azure CLI in an ARM template
ARM templates are a great way to deploy infrastructure to Azure. The issue however is that sometimes, you need to do something that is not supported in a template. Think about executing an Azure Function when the template completes, or updating a config file in blob storage / some table. There is a new preview […]

Using Azure Resource Graph to optimize your scripts
I had to get some data out of a large Azure environment yesterday. What I needed was a quick way to get all machines of a certain size. Typically, I would have used Azure Powershell or Azure CLI to get this done. Create a loop over all resource groups, get all the resources in the […]