I wanted to describe how my flow usually works for creating a GitHub Actions. People often struggle to think of something to build because they start with an empty canvas: the action itself. That is not how I build up the action. For me the process is as follows: Have a need for something straightforward: like… READ MORE
I notice a lot of people getting lost in their GitHub notifications. Here is what you can do to get some control back! The default settings send you emails for everything. A lot of people then create an email rule to move all those emails to a specific folder, which means they will never look… READ MORE
GitHub doesn’t require an introduction. Its the widely used and universal code repository. In this post, you will learn how to get the GitHub alerts like commits, PRs, etc., on your Microsoft Teams channel. Create Webhook url in MS Team channel Webhooks are typically used for these kind of integrations. Lets first create the webhook… READ MORE
Azure Static Web Apps is a service that automatically builds and deploys full stack web apps to Azure from a GitHub repository. But how do they work? Or, a better question, how do we make them work for us? Watch Rick van den Bosch’s webinar on Azure Static Web Apps and you will have enough… READ MORE
Intro In this part of the blog series, I want to deploy my VPN connection to my on-premises environment and the log analytics workspace. Azure key vault Before I can start with my VPN connection I need to create an Azure key vault to store my VPN shared secret. The variables file for my key… READ MORE
During the Christmas holiday, I used my time off to explore the integration between Power Apps and GitHub. I started to explore this new feature because I wanted to see changes to the code. I mean real code. There is no way to easily see the code… Well, Power Apps is a no/low-code as we know, so I also know we should not want to see… READ MORE
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In this post I want to cover how you can create a dacpac for an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL Pool using GitHub Actions. By the end of this post, you will know how to create a dacpac for a dedicated SQL Pool within GitHub Actions for your CI/CD deployments. Creating database project for Azure Synapse dedicated SQL… READ MORE
Frustrated by GitHub Insights As an owner of a handful of large public repos for my job, one of the things that I care about is knowing the traffic to the repos to get an understanding of visibility. GitHub has this amazing feature, called GitHub Insights, which allows you to see some of this data, however… READ MORE
Have a site sitting in GitHub that you currently maybe manually deploy to Azure or use some other tool? Why not use GitHub Actions to quickly and easily publish to Azure. I was pushing a small site (Guid.Empty) to Azure through GitHub and decided to document the couple steps for future me 😋… oh and for you… READ MORE
