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Problem Space

Role assignments are one of those areas in Azure that look simple on the surface, but can become awkward pretty quickly once you start automating them properly.

Anyone who has worked with RBAC through IaC for long enough will usually run into the same set of problems.

There are usually …

Problem Space

As Bicep adoption grows, so does the complexity of the environments and teams using it. Without clear authoring practices, Bicep codebases can quickly become inconsistent, hard to maintain, and error-prone. In this post I wanted to share some practical authoring practices and …

Problem Space

There have been few times where I have landed into this particular predicament whereby either by my own doing or through the use of another’s code base, a deep nested or thoroughly utilised (parameter/variable/or other defined item) has been created with the same name as a Bicep …

Overview

One of my core goals when writing IaC templates is ensuring reusability of common components, resources, and in this case, configuration. More often than not, I see configuration that is broadly common between resources (except for one or two properties) being duplicated throughout …