In the previous post Sleep Worry-Free: The best tips for Local Secrets Management I shared the best tips for managing local secrets. In this post I will take Secrets Management to the next level by showing you how to create manage and use secrets securely by setting up a local secure store using PowerShell SecretManagement and PowerShell SecretStore modules. Modules explained Since this approach to Secrets Management depends on the two just mentioned modules the purpose of each of the modules is explained next.

In this post I will share a couple of tips with regards to Secrets Management in your (local) dev environment. Personally I use these to prevent / limit leaking of secrets while developing Azure infrastructure. And I consider them as part of my security hygiene during the development process. Use Case When you are either building new Azure Infrastructure or debugging an existing configuration you will eventually need to use a secret or a password on you local (dev) environment.

This is the 6th post in the category Azure DevOps Fundamentals of the blog post series on working with Azure DevOps In this post the I will show how to use Library for Azure Pipelines. Since it much more fun to do research and play with technology in collaboration with others, Wesley Camargo will be covering some of the topics on he’s blog , while other topics are covered by my here.

This is the 5th post in the category Azure DevOps Fundamentals of the blog post series on working with Azure DevOps In this post the I will introduce you to the Azure DevOps Demo Generator tool by using it to create a new Project in Azure DevOps. Since it much more fun to do research and play with technology in collaboration with others, Wesley Camargo will be covering some of the topics on he’s blog , while other topics are covered by my here.

This is the 4th post in the category Azure DevOps Fundamentals of the blog post series on working with Azure DevOps . In this post the I will demonstrate how to create an Azure Service Connection in an Azure DevOps Project. Since it much more fun to do research and play with technology in collaboration with others, Wesley Camargo will be covering some of the topics on he’s blog , while other topics are covered by my here.

This is the 2nd post in the category Azure DevOps Fundamentals of the blog post series on working with Azure DevOps In this post the I will show how to create a new Project in Azure DevOps. Since it much more fun to do research and play with technology in collaboration with others, Wesley Camargo will be covering some of the topics on he’s blog , while other topics are covered by my here.