Regardless of your experience within technology, the process of creating code usually starts out with a solution that is just enough to get the job done. The solution is then typically tweaked and improved continuously until it is either “production worthy” or “good enough for the requirements”. This process of improvement is called refactoring. Refactoring is a skill that all technical professionals should become proficient in, regardless if you are an IT Pro, a developer or just someone who needs to automate things.
Update 2020-10-12: I have updated the 101-webapp-linux-sonarqube-azuresql Azure Resource Manager quick start template to default to 7.7-community edition and prevent deployment of versions that aren’t currently compatible with Azure App Service Web App Containers.
Update 2020-10-09: It was pointed out to me that the process in this post had stopped working. The container was not starting up correctly. Upon investigation I found that this was because newer versions of the Sonarqube container includes ElasticSearch which requires additional heap memory to be assigned.
Recently I helped organize and present at the 2019 Global Azure Bootcamp in Auckland. The Global Azure Bootcamp is an huge event run by Azure communities throughout the world all on the same day every year. It is an opportunity for anyone with an interest in Azure to come and learn from experts and presenters and share their knowledge. If you’re new to Azure or even if you’re an expert it is well worth your time to attend these free events.
One of the great things about PowerShell being based on .NET is that we get to the huge number of types built into the framework.
A problem I came across today was that I needed to have a function that took a mandatory integer parameter, but that parameter needed to allow Null. In .NET there is a generic type System.Nullable that allows other types to take on a null value.
Support for Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) was recently added to Cosmos DB. If you want to enable CORS on an existing Cosmos DB account or create a new Cosmos DB account with CORS enabled it is very easy to do with Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates or the Azure Portal.
But what if you’re wanting to find out the state of the CORS setting on an account or set it using PowerShell?
