I’m pretty sure @techwatching.bsky.social will frame this post and hang it on a wall, you’ve made a friend happy 🤗

Simplifying Home Assistant’s configuration with ytt How you can use templating for your Home Assistant configuration with ytt

Last blog post of the year: how I use ytt with my @home-assistant.io configuration.

For what I can recall I have used them for naming resources, and manipulating configuration stored in a json file.
Also it’s a way to declare “global” variables without putting them in a module or passing them as parameter in every module.

Terraform vs Bicep: the differences you should really know What really matters if you work with Azure and need to choose between Terraform and Bicep

Terraform is a safe bet but Bicep is evolving very nicely.
Let me share a blog post like my friend @techwatching.bsky.social just did: blog.xmi.fr/posts/terraf...
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I second user-defined types, and want to quote user-defined functions as a second vote 🤓

Snippet of the following Bicep code: // This will return the tenant id of the subscription // where the managed application is being deployed var customerTenantId = subscription().tenantId // This will return the tenant id from where the // managed application was published var publisherTenantId = tenant().tenantId

Quick #azure #bicep tip I have learnt when working on an Marketplace Managed Application: it turns out that tenant().tenantId and subscription().tenantId doesn't return the same value when working in a cross-tenant situation 🤓

First look on the Graph provider for Bicep Provision an Azure App Service protected by Entra ID using Bicep only.

First post here, been a while since my latest blog post so here is a fresh one on Azure Bicep and the provider for MS Graph
#azure #iac #bicep