Peanut Butter and Chocolate: Azure Functions CI/CD Pipeline with AWS CodeCommit (Part 2 of 6)

Part 2

In Part 1 I gave an overview of the Peanut Butter and Chocolate Project. In Part 2 I will cover the required PowerShell modules for the deployment, the settings used in the project, authenticating tp Azure and AWS, deploying the Azure Function App, and Deploying the AWS CodeCommit repository. I also demonstrate how to verify the resource deployments with Pester.

As a reminder, you can obtain the project code from https://github.com/markekraus/PeanutButterChocolate

Series Table of Contents

• Part 1 of 6: Project Introduction and Overview
  
• Part 2 of 6 (This Post): Project Settings, Authentication, Azure Function App Deployment, and AWS Code Commit Deployment
  
• Part 3 of 6: Creating AWS IAM User for Git, Generating HTTPS Git Credentials, Configuring Azure Web App External Git Deployment, and Initial Manual Deployment
• Part 4 of 6: Create AWS IAM Role, Deploy the C# .NET Core 2.0 AWS Lambda, and Create an AWS KMS Key
• Part 5 of 6: Add AWS CodeCommit Trigger and Encrypt Secrets with AWS KMS
• Part 6 of 6: Generate Configuration File, Automatic deployment from AWS CodeCommit to Azure Functions, Trigger the Azure Function from PowerShell, and Series Conclusion

Peanut Butter and Chocolate: Azure Functions CI/CD Pipeline with AWS CodeCommit (Part 1 of 6)

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Intro

This blog series will cover a Proof of Concept (POC) Project for creating a PowerShell-based Azure Functions CI/CD pipeline where the code is stored in AWS CodeCommit git-based version control system. The pipeline will be created and deployed using Windows PowerShell 5.1. Every step of the pipeline deployment process will be verified with Pester tests. The result of the project will be the ability to push changes to an AWS CodeCommit repository and those changes will be automatically deployed to Azure Functions.

This blog series is targeted at intermediate level PowerShell users and basic PowerShell concepts will not be described in detail. Also, this series will require some basic understanding of both Azure and AWS clouds and their PowerShell based management. Git and C# .NET Core are also leveraged in this project but they will not be covered in depth as this is a PowerShell-centric blog. Readers need only be familiar with basic concepts of git and C#.

Series Table of Contents

• Part 1 of 6 (This Post): Project Introduction and Overview
  
• Part 2 of 6: Project Settings, Authentication, Azure Function App Deployment, and AWS Code Commit Deployment
  
• Part 3 of 6: Creating AWS IAM User for Git, Generating HTTPS Git Credentials, Configuring Azure Web App External Git Deployment, and Initial Manual Deployment
• Part 4 of 6: Create AWS IAM Role, Deploy the C# .NET Core 2.0 AWS Lambda, and Create an AWS KMS Key
• Part 5 of 6: Add AWS CodeCommit Trigger and Encrypt Secrets with AWS KMS
• Part 6 of 6: Generate Configuration File, Automatic deployment from AWS CodeCommit to Azure Functions, Trigger the Azure Function from PowerShell, and Series Conclusion

PowerShell Core 6.1 Web Cmdlets Roadmap

Intro

Recently the PowerShell Team published their PowerShell Core 6.1 Roadmap. Several questions have come up about 6.1 plans for Invoke-WebRequest and Invoke-RestMethod. You may have noticed there is no mention of the Web Cmdlets in their roadmap. That is because the majority of the feature work for the cmdlets is being done by yours truly. As I am a community member and not a Microsoft employee, it would make sense that my work is not included in their blog. Anyway, I felt it was a good idea to share what I have in store for the next 6 months.

I should warn that this is more accurately called "Mark Kraus's PowerShell Core 6.1 Web Cmdlets Wish List" rather than a roadmap. I only have 2 features that are pretty much approved. The rest will depend on whether or not the changes actually get accepted. Also, I'm not part of any team working on this. It's just me and the issue queue back log of feature requests and bugs. If your company wants to hire me to work full time on the Web Cmdlets, then hit me up. Otherwise, this is all a side project for me and life happens. So please don't hold me to any deadlines! :)

PowerShell Core Web Cmdlets in Depth (Part 3)

Part 3 Intro

In Part 1, I covered the primary changes in the actual code base of the PowerShell Core Web Cmdlets Invoke-RestMethod and Invoke-WebRequest and how those changes manifest themselves in the PowerShell user experience.

In Part 2, I covered outstanding issues as well missing and/or deprecated features.

In Part 3, I will cover new features available in PowerShell Core 6.0.0 Invoke-RestMethod & Invoke-WebRequest. I will also cover future plans for the cmdlets.

If you have not read Part 1 and Part 2, please do so before reading Part 3. This blog series goes in depth and requires a great many words to do so. To save space I will not repeat some information and will assume the reader as read Part 1 and Part 2.

A quick bit of news: PowerShell Core v6.0.0-rc.2 was released. Unless any blocking issues are discovered, this will be the final RC release and the next release will be GA in January 2018.

PowerShell Core Web Cmdlets in Depth (Part 2)

Part 2 Intro

In Part 1, I covered the primary changes in the actual code base of the PowerShell Core Web Cmdlets Invoke-RestMethod and Invoke-WebRequest and how those changes manifest themselves in the PowerShell user experience.

In Part 2, I will cover outstanding issues as well missing and/or deprecated features. Some of this will be an extension of Part 1 because some of the feature reduction is due mostly to the switch to HttpClient. Any plans or fixes I mention in this section are tentative and may change when and/or if they are implemented.

If you have not read Part 1, please do so before reading Part 2. This blog series goes in depth and requires a great many words to do so. To save space I will not repeat some information and will assume the reader as read Part 1.

Also, this will be my first blog post as a new Microsoft MVP. I wanted to take a quick moment to thank the people who nominated me and the PowerShell community for your support in getting me here. It is a great honor and I am overjoyed! Thank you!

PowerShell Core Web Cmdlets in Depth (Part 1)

Intro

I recently spoke at the North Texas PC Users Group's PowerShell Special Interest Group on the topic of the Web Cmdlets in PowerShell Core. I spoke for full hour because there is just so much new and different about Invoke-RestMethod and Invoke-WebRequest between Windows PowerShell 5.1 and PowerShell Core 6.0.0. In fact, because I was limited to an hour, I couldn't go as in depth or cover as many things as I would have liked. This blog series will cover what I covered in that presentation and more. At this time I plan to have 3 parts with a possible 4th as an addendum should anything change between now and GA.

PowerSMells: PowerShell Code Smells (Part 1.5)

Intro

I am writing this next blog post in this series much sooner than I had anticipated. I wanted to do so in order to clarify a few things about PowerSMells and to address some of the negative feedback I have received. I will still include a PowerSMell, but this is mostly to address shortcomings in the Part 1 of the series.

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