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In my last post, Azure Functions - Securing resources with a function proxy, I talked about my work to develop a more Azure-centric solution to replace my current home security camera automation workflow.

Another link in the chain for me was to be able to serve up a …

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As you may have guessed from my last post, I’ve been quite impressed with the serverless offerings in Azure of late - as a lifelong infrastructure person, the idea of being able to throw together functional code that you can access from anywhere, without …

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Today I explore using a PowerShell function in Azure Functions to automate parts of my webapp deploment.

Background

In my last post, Azure: Trigger a WebJob with Logic Apps and Kudu - Part 2, I used a Logic App run a WebJob using the Kudu REST API on a schedule, …

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In my last post, Azure: Trigger a WebJob with Logic Apps and Kudu - Part 1, we built a KeyVault and a WebJob that will retrieve a storage key from KeyVault (using Managed Identity and REST APIs) and then backed up our webapp content and copied it to blob …

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In my last post, Grav in Azure part 8 - Wrapping it Up, I mentioned a solution I came up with for my Grav project.

I wanted a WebJob for my blog which would invoke Grav’s own backup command to take a backup of the entire site, and then move the backup …

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In my last post, Grav in Azure part 7 - Backup Solutions, I discussed backup options for a grav blog running on a D1 WebApp instance, and other possible automation opportunities.

I left off on my last post considering the use of Git-Sync to allow not only …