In this post I will share a couple of tips with regards to Secrets Management in your (local) dev environment. Personally I use these to prevent / limit leaking of secrets while developing Azure infrastructure. And I consider them as part of my security hygiene during the development process.

Use Case

When you are either building new Azure Infrastructure or debugging an existing configuration you will eventually need to use a secret or a password on you local (dev) environment. The most straightforward approach that is often used is to create a new variable and add the secret as a value to this variable. Effectively (temporarily) hardcoding the secret value into whatever you are working on. The following example sows such an approach, it should be quite familiar to everyone who worked with Azure and PowerShell in the past.

This is the 6th post in the category Azure DevOps Fundamentals of the blog post series on working with Azure DevOps In this post the I will show how to use Library for Azure Pipelines.

Since it much more fun to do research and play with technology in collaboration with others, Wesley Camargo will be covering some of the topics on he’s blog , while other topics are covered by my here. Naturally the all related posts will be referenced between the two blogs.

This is the 5th post in the category Azure DevOps Fundamentals of the blog post series on working with Azure DevOps In this post the I will introduce you to the Azure DevOps Demo Generator tool by using it to create a new Project in Azure DevOps.

Since it much more fun to do research and play with technology in collaboration with others, Wesley Camargo will be covering some of the topics on he’s blog , while other topics are covered by my here. Naturally the all related posts will be referenced between the two blogs.

This is the 4th post in the category Azure DevOps Fundamentals of the blog post series on working with Azure DevOps . In this post the I will demonstrate how to create an Azure Service Connection in an Azure DevOps Project.

Since it much more fun to do research and play with technology in collaboration with others, Wesley Camargo will be covering some of the topics on he’s blog , while other topics are covered by my here. Naturally the all related posts will be referenced between the two blogs.

This is the 2nd post in the category Azure DevOps Fundamentals of the blog post series on working with Azure DevOps In this post the I will show how to create a new Project in Azure DevOps.

Since it much more fun to do research and play with technology in collaboration with others, Wesley Camargo will be covering some of the topics on he’s blog , while other topics are covered by my here. Naturally the all related posts will be referenced between the two blogs.

With this post am kicking off a blog post series on working with Azure DevOps . The subjects covered by this series are organized into three categories:

• Azure DevOps Fundamentals
• Azure DevOps Advanced
• Azure DevOps Expert

Starting with the basic of basics of Azure DevOps Fundamentals :

How to create an Organization in Azure DevOps?

Since it much more fun to do research and play with technology in collaboration with others, Wesley Camargo will be covering some of the topics on he’s blog , while other topics are covered by my here. Naturally the all related posts will be referenced between the two blogs.