Author: Stanislav Zhelyazkov

Stanislav Zhelyazkov has been working in IT since 2007. Stanislav has started his IT career as a Help Desk Specialist in 2007 while studying Informatics in the University of Ruse. He also worked in HP Enterprise Services (now known as DXC), maintaining large corporate IT infrastructures for clients in Holland, Switzerland and Germany and was involved in a Private Cloud project based on MS Hyper-V and System Center. He was also in the role of Principal Consultant in Lumagate developing and consulting companies on Azure, OMS, management and Private clouds. Currently he is Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Sentia Denmark. Stanislav is active community member at MSDN forums providing answers on Azure. His blogposts can be found at www.cloudadministrator.net or www.systemcentercentral.com.

Monitoring canceled Azure Subscriptions

Azure Subscription cannot be just deleted. They go trough different states. Although you might have taken all necessary to secure your Azure tenant sometimes mistakes happen or your environment might be compromised by bad actors. The first step of removing Azure Subscription is to cancel it. That is critical action that you may want to monitor although you should have in place other ways to monitor resources that will signal that they are not available. In any case additional alert that this action was done could be useful information to be alerted upon. In this blog posts we will take a look how we can do that by using Azure Monitor. The deployment of the Azure Monitor resource will be done via Azure Bicep.

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Passing Resources between Azure Bicep modules

Bicep modules is core feature for structuring your code and achieving certain functionality when deploying Azure resources. When using modules quite often you will have to pass pass resource information like resource ID in order to be used within the module. Another use case is when an end user have to provide information for existing resource so that resource can be used for the deployment of another resource. This blog post will focus on the different methods for passing resources between modules or from bicep parameters file to module.

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Azure Bicep fail() function explained

Azure Bicep fail() function was introduced in Bicep CLI v0.33.93. In short this function allows you to fail your deployment when certain conditions are met. In this blog post we will look at how to use it in real world example.

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Using Optional parameter if not configured in Azure Monitor workbooks with KQL query

Azure Monitor workbooks are great way to visualize Azure data for monitoring and analysis. Although there is a good documentation on how to built them I would say that examples for more advanced scenarios are lacking in there. Recently I was asked a question about such scenario: “How do I set KQL query in a way that the filter for optional parameter in Azure Monitor workbook is not applied if value is not provided for that parameter?”.

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Testing Data Processing Azure Bicep Functions Easily

These days Azure Bicep has a lot of more functions that can be used for processing data. Most notably I am referring to the lambda Azure Bicep functions. Often times I use two or more of these functions all together in Bicep templates. When using several of these functions chained one after another it is easier to get lost how data will be processed. Also to test all the different input that will be passed to those functions will results in doing several different deployments. That is time consuming process as deployments takes time to run not to mention that along I have several other resources also deployed via those templates. Thankfully just to test if the data is processed according to how I have imagine it there is easier method by using Bicep parameters files.

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