Kalle Marjokorpi

Topic

DevOps

A collection of 12 pages

Mastering Diagramming as Code: Essential Mermaid Flowchart Tips and Tricks

I have been using Microsoft Loop for a while now as a note-taking and collaboration tool for work-related things. It's a good tool for collaborating with other people, sharing, co-editing, and it is tightly integrated into the Microsoft ecosystem. In the future, Loop components will be integrated overwhelmingly

Automate the installation of applications using Winget

My current Windows 11 setup on a home PC has become a bit unstable and slow. Originally, I upgraded Windows 10 to 11 immediately when it was available. I think it was four years ago. I handled Windows operating system, files, and programs on a single SSD disk for quite

How to create an infrastructure for EventGrid and Webhook event handler?

I recently worked with an even-driven solution that used Azure Event Grid to route different events to the Webhook endpoint. This blog post shows how to configure and create Azure infrastructure for EventGrid and Webhook-based event handlers. Configuring a Webhook type of event handler (subscription) via Bicep is a pretty

How to model Azure infrastructure creation in a microservice environment with Bicep Modules?

Background Are you operating in a complex Azure environment that contains multiple independent microservices and you're wondering how to model the environment with infrastructure as a code? This blog post is for you. This blog post shows how to structure/model infrastructure creation effectively with Bicep Modules in

Lessons learned when creating reusable YAML templates

I recently wrote about how to utilize reusable YAML templates in Azure DevOps. A shared source control repository for YAML templates gives great value from a re-usability point of view. This blog post concentrates more on how you should formulate YAML templates to make them as reusable as possible. Template

How to integrate API tests hosted in Postman's Team Workspace to Azure DevOps?

My previous blog post covered how to use Postman in API testing and integrate API test execution into the Azure DevOps pipeline. The described solution assumed that API tests were exported to JSON-file which was added to the source control. Handling and maintaining API test JSON files in source control

How to automate database migrations with Fluent Migrator in Azure DevOps?

What is a Fluent Migrator? Fluent Migrator is a migration framework for .NET that enables the creation of database migrations by using C#. This basically means that you can create manually C# class for each migration. Fluent Migrator provides a Fluent API which is a really easy interface to construct

Azure Bicep - Insert Resource feature in VS Code

What is the Insert Resource feature? Recently Bicep v0.4.1124 was released and it contains a very interesting "Insert Resource" feature. This feature allows you to create Bicep configuration from existing Azure resources in VS Code. This increases productivity if you're just now starting to

How to handle application-specific settings in the Azure App Service platform?

There are multiple ways to handle application-related settings when using Azure App Service. Typically application needs ex. database connection string and authentication-related parameters which should be able to change without deploying the application again. This blog post presents a comparison of typical ways to handle application settings in Azure App

Get notified about service health incidents that have occurred in Azure

Wouldn't be nice to receive notifications about any service health incidents that have occurred in Azure? Automated notifications about platform issues could save your troubleshooting time. The status of the Azure service is publicly available here but this site basically offers only a traffic light view without detailed