38 posts tagged with "Automation"

In our previous article Identifying Workflows Inside Azure Logic Apps, we explored how to identify workflows running within Azure Logic Apps across different instances in an Azure tenant. That script allowed us to automate the process of retrieving workflow details such as name, helping with resource management and assesment. By leveraging PowerShell, we eliminated the need for manual tracking through the Azure portal and streamlined the reporting process. By the way as for now, there is no easy way to get this information from Azure Portal.

That approach was particularly useful for Logic Apps Standard, which can host multiple workflows within a single instance. By automating the data retrieval, we generated structured reports showing which workflows were running on which Logic Apps, making it easier to audit and optimize resources.

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In this post, we will dive into generating a report that tracks which workflows are running on which Logic App instances within your tenant. If you are using Logic Apps, especially the Consumption or Standard-based, keeping track of these workflows across different instances can be a challenge. The good news is, with the help of PowerShell that I have developed, we can create a report that highlights which Logic App instances are running which workflows. This report can be crucial for troubleshooting, performance monitoring, and resource management.

In this article, we will try to gather consumption details using custom queries from Microsoft.CostManagement API on Azure. There are different ways to get these details but I will show you the simplest way to get this.

Infrastructure as Code(IaC) is a crucial technique when you need to automate your environment end-to-end. If you're familiar with Terraform, you are probably familiar with the functionality of terraform plan. You might want to see the same capability before deploying Bicep or Azure Resource Manager templates. In order to have this functionality in your environment, you must have AZ CLI or Azure PowerShell. What-if is supported for the resource group, subscription, management group, and tenant-level deployments.

With this article, we will start an article series that will cover Azure Resource Graph and the particular features that make it different. You might never used or you might have never heard Azure Resource Graph before, but you will have a grasp of it with this article series. In this series, we will try to create and improve solutions that needed for real scenarios. Now without getting into detail, let's jump into our article.

What is Azure Resource Graph?​

We can define Azure Resource Graph as an Azure service extension of Azure Resource Manager for absolute beginners. To answer what it provides and why we should use it, we need to look at the examples like the actions that we can execute in subscriptions in our organization by using Azure Resource Graph. These examples are:

There are few points that I would like to address in our second article. We will cover all the configuration of Azure Front Door service. This article will be about how we can deploy Front Door service with Terraform in the most optimum way and how we can use this service more dynamically for multiple endpoint declarations. Before jumping into the article, going over the Front Door's logic and its elements might be beneficial. These elements can be listed as:

• Front Endpoints
• Binding SSL Certificate from KeyVault/Front Door Managed
• Backend Pools
• Routing Rules (https/http)
• Web Application Firewall Policy - Managed/Custom Rules

We can use Infrastructure as a Code for many distinct purposes. In this article series, we will try to understand how Terraform and Azure FrontDoor provisioning work together and make an end-to-end FrontDoor deployment. You may come across articles that compare FrontDoor and Application Gateway on this blog. FrontDoor is a successful, secure, and convenient load-balancing solution that works on Layer-7 created by Microsoft Azure. It is also used together with Microsoft services such as "Bing, Office 365, Xbox Live, MSN, LinkedIn ve Azure DevOps," and it is indeed incredible to have this infrastructure.

In the last article of our series, we will try to access the endpoint of Pipelines, and we will list pipelines expressions of all projects.

First of all, we need to look at the list of endpoint types down below.

Operation types for Pipelines​

In our previous article, we did some pre-coding to access Azure DevOps REST API. We got all the projects of a DevOps Organization as a list by executing an elementary request. Now, we should enlarge our knowledge with further examples.

Let's do an example where we try to access all the repositories as a list in an Azure DevOps Project. This is how the repository list looks from the interface of the AzDo.

In this article series, we will focus on how and why Azure DevOps API can be usable with Powershell with emphasizing critical details in the latter parts. Before heading to the article, it is vital to notice that this article series requires a solid understanding of REST API. With the REST API's page down below, you can access all the endpoints and create requests with necessary methods such as GET, POST, PATCH

AzDo Rest API Documentation​