Adventures with Azure ARM Templates: Deployment Fails See inner errors for details

In my effort to get better with Azure ARM Templates I encountered the following error in one of my deployments:

To get a more verbose version of the error you can execute the following cmdlet: Make sure to include -Verbose otherwise you won’t get the details you need to troubleshoot the error. Navigate to…

Adventures with Azure: Regions

What is an Azure region? According to the docs, an Azure region is defined as a set of data centers deployed within a latency-defined perimeter and connected through a dedicated low-latency network. There is also an Azure geography which defines an area of the world containing at least one Azure region. And lastly, there are…

Adventures with Azure Functions: Blob Storage Triggers and Bindings

The docs are a little lite on examples of Azure Functions using Azure Storage Blobs, so I took a couple of hours and created a few more examples that I will share in this article. The code can be found at https://github.com/mattruma/MJR061. You will first want to create the resources in Azure, follow the instructions…

Adventures with Azure API Management: Add JSON Property in Set-Body

I have a policy on all my operations in Azure API Management to validate a JWT Token and extract the sub Claim, which I store in a userId variable that can be used in other policies. I have an operation called Organization Add that calls an Azure Function to add an organization to the database….

Adventures in Azure: Curbside Pickup Sample App

With all that is going on with COVID-19 and the impact that it is having on retailers, I took a couple of days and wrote a curb-side app that would allow customers to notify a retailer, or any vendor for that matter, that they had arrived to pick-up their order. Please note, this is an…

Adventures with Azure DevOps: .azcli Files to .sh

I am building a pipeline for deploying my application, the first thing I needed to do was deploy my Azure resources. I have a tendency to be more imperative with my deployment strategy, using Azure PowerShell and Azure CLI over Azure Resource Management (ARM) templates. I use Visual Studio Code to code my azure-pipelines.yml file,…