Andrew Matveychuk

Hi, I'm Andrew Matveychuk, I write this blog, work with Microsoft Azure and any other interesting stuff

Mar 24, 2020 PowerShell Microsoft Azure How To

How to roll out Microsoft Monitoring Agent with PowerShell DSC

I already wrote a pretty informative article about using PowerShell DSC for configuring Azure DevOps build servers, and here I would like to share a solution for a more common task – onboarding your servers for monitoring with Azure Monitor.

Mar 10, 2020 About How To

How I learn new technology

Following the post about my reading experience, I decided to share some advice on how I manage to keep up with the constant flow of new computer technologies.

Mar 3, 2020 DevOps PowerShell

DevOps in PowerShell automation

Despite the wide usage of PowerShell by DevOps practitioners, most automation solutions I come across in organizations are implemented in a quick & dirty way. It is a paradox that automation with PowerShell is often itself completely ignores the practices DevOps encourages to use.

Feb 6, 2020 DevOps Incident Management System Design

Monitoring from the DevOps perspective

Despite the common misconception, monitoring in a DevOps-aligned organization is not about “Hey, let’s use Prometheus, ELK, Grafana or whatever else and output nice dashboards on big wall-mounted screens!” Moreover, monitoring is not about tools and underlying technologies.

Jan 23, 2020 Microsoft Azure Azure Policy Azure DevOps How To

How to deploy Azure Policy from an Azure DevOps pipeline

After publishing my posts about deploying Azure Policy and Azure Policy initiatives from ARM templates, I got a few questions about performing such deployments from Azure DevOps pipelines. Indeed, there are a few things to pay attention to. So, I will try to shed some light on them in this article.