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Huge thanks to Mani for how to get this working!

Introduction

I often have GitHub workflows that deploy resources to Azure. In the past, I have created a service principal and use the client secret to authenticate to Azure. This isn’t ideal as if the client secret is leaked then it can be used to access the Azure resources. Additionally, the client secret needs to be rotated periodically which can be a pain (yeah, I’m lazy!).

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Deep-linking to queries in Application Insights can be useful for sharing queries with colleagues, including links in documentation, or for dynamically generating links in code. In this post, we'll see how to generate these links from Python.

I’m a self-confessed fan of Visual Studio Code’s dev container experience and have a number of posts about them including a list of some of my favourite things with dev containers. I find it productive to be able to capture the pre-requisites for working with a project programmatically, and share it with others working on the project. However, there’s a feature of dev containers that I use heavily which has the potential to break this model: dotfiles.

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Reusing your dev container in GitHub Workflows

Introduction

In the last post we saw how to create a drop-in replacement for notify-send. This allowed us to take a script that used notify-send and run it without modification. In this post, we’ll take a look at how we can update that script to take better advantage of Windows notifications.

At the end of the last post, the notification was fairly generic as shown below:

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See how to create a replacement notify-send utility for WSL, and how to integrate that with the GitHub cli to get Windows notifications when your GitHub workflows finish

Make magic happen! Learn how to automatically forward content copied to the clipboard in a VS Code dev container to your Windows clipboard

Wish that Windows Terminal started in your user HOME directory for WSL profiles?

Find out how to store your SSH keys in Windows and access them from your WSL distros

Disclaimer: this post is one to file under “things I’m blogging in the hope that I find the answer more quickly next time”.

Background

I switched to using SSH key auth for GitHub and Azure DevOps Repos a long time ago and never looked back. For a while I was using SSH keys without passphrases but got round to adding passphrases a while back. I set up the Windows OpenSSH Authentication Agent - the service defaults to Disabled so I set it as Automatic start and nudged it to Running. (For more information, see the docs on installing Windows OpenSSH)

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