Maik van der Gaag is a Microsoft Azure MVP, CTO at 3fifty, and cloud technology leader with over 20 years of experience in Azure architecture, DevOps, and modern cloud adoption, actively contributing to global tech communities.
10 articles from this blog
Explains the mystery of hidden tags in Azure, how they work, and their use cases for automation and management.
A guide to building a custom HTTP extension for Bicep, enabling API calls directly from Azure infrastructure templates.
Explains how to use the --pattern parameter in Bicep CLI for bulk building and linting multiple Bicep template files using wildcards.
A technical guide on authenticating with the GitHub API using a GitHub App, focusing on setup and JWT token generation in C#.
Explores Bicep extensions for deploying resources beyond Azure, covering their limitations and the new local deployment preview feature.
A guide to optimizing cost management in Azure, covering budget configurations, anomaly alerts, and best practices for cloud spending.
Explains how to use the experimental Bicep extensibility framework to manage Microsoft Graph resources like Entra groups and users via Infrastructure as Code.
Introducing a custom GitHub Action for linting Bicep IaC files, with features to scan only changed files and combine SARIF output.
Introduces the new `deployer()` function in Bicep v0.32.4, which retrieves the identity of the deploying principal for use in tagging and permissions.
Introducing the experimental Bicep Test Framework for validating and testing Azure Bicep infrastructure-as-code templates.
