Tableau server REST API has endpoint “ serverinfo” to find information about server’s REST API version: GET /api/api-version/serverinfo As per documentation, for api-version you have to specify “The version of the API to use, such as 3.10”. This creates chicken/egg situation: you need to know API version in order to…

As code development moves forward, collaboration and experimentation flourish, developers join and leave the team, the Git repos start to accumulate stale branches. There is no exact definition for for “stale branch”, but both Azure DevOps and GitHub, have Stale branches view. This view displays “… branches in the repo…

When you setup Azure Resource Manager connection in Azure DevOps using “Service principal (automatic)” authentication, Azure DevOps will create new service principal (app registration) in Azure Active Directory and grant this principal desired access to Azure resources. Have a look at the documentation here.

Sometimes, I have to step out of the comfort of the Azure PowerShell module and call Azure REST APIs directly. Usually, it is required when there is no cmdlet wrapper for some API, or the Az module does not support some underlying API functionality. As you already know, such calls…

Recently, I had to implement a workaround in the Azure DevOps classic release pipelines. This is relatively simple update — I would need to do next: 1.find release in the Azure DevOps web UI and start release definition editor 2. go into first stage/environment 3. add a new instance of…

As you probably already know, you can use Azure App Service as backend pool for Application Gateway. The general configuration procedure can be found in the Microsoft documentation. …

Sometimes you need to verify that your Azure web (or function) app can access its data using MSI in Azure Data Lake. Open web app debug console at https://your-az-weapp.scm.azurewebsites.net/DebugConsole/?shell=powershell Run next PS script (replace data lake name and path to the target file) $progressPreference = “silentlyContinue” $req=Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing -Uri…