With 💪Bicep v0.3 we finally got loop support and now we can start to do some really cool stuff using Bicep. I must say I really like the new loop syntax, it’s clean, easy to read and removes a lot of the complexity we did see in ARM template copy loops. This post is dedicated to copy loops where I will show some different examples on how you can use loops in Bicep. The Bicep Loops specification can be found here.

As you may know I’m completely sold on Bicep, I absolutely love using it! Since a while back I use Bicep to create all my templates for Azure Deployments (as long the features I need is supported in Bicep) and I’m super excited for the upcoming release of v0.3 that will give us the missing piece of the puzzle, copy loops!

Deploying Azure Virtual WAN using ARM templates can be frustrating and it takes some time before you get a hang on it. There are a lot of dependencies between resources and you need to make sure that everything is deployed in the correct order, and also allow both the Virtual Hub and routing to reach succeeded state before throwing more things at it. In this post I will guide you through some of the different resource types to help you with your Virtual WAN deployment.

Last week I decided to share my Azure Virtual WAN lab environment by publishing it on GitHub, this blog post is an introduction to my so called Azure Virtual WAN Playground!

I had a case the other day where a custom rule in a Web Application Firewall v2 policy attached to an Application Gateway behaved kind of funky. The rule was setup to deny traffic if a specific request header in the HTTP request was not present. At first everything looked good but after a while I still noticed that some unwanted traffic was hitting my backend service. After some testing and investigation, I came up with the following. Thanks @SimonWahlin for the support!

I’ve been working a lot with Azure Networking the last couple of months, re-building and implementing new networking designs all over the place. When the time comes to move services to the new VNets I’ve deployed it can sometimes be a bit difficult to find all the services connected to the old VNets(not all services are listed under connected devices in the VNet). One of them are App Services and Function Apps with VNet Integration enabled. Since VNet Integration was released for App Services and Function Apps (available for Function Apps running on App Service Plans only!) a couple of months ago it’s been spreading like a disease across Azure Subscriptions with high privileged developers enabling it left to right in need of On-Premises connectivity😘. There can be hundreds of them and sometimes you need to find them to be able to get control of the network again.

Finding all App Services and Function Apps enabled for VNet Integration is a bit more difficult than you can imagine when you start looking at it.

Welcome to my new blog! I removed my old one and all content since most of it was obsolete. It’s time to start fresh with a bunch of new stuff, my first mission is to write a series of posts with some Azure API Management stuff. A lot of it related to APIM and VNets, stay tuned!