Episode 180 – JSON All The Things!

In Episode 180, Ben and Scott talk through a recent experience Scott had when working with service principals in Azure AD for use with Azure Kubernetes Service. They also get into some of the fun that can be had with parsing JSON from the command line with jq and JMESPath.

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Show Notes

* ./jq
* JMESPath
* Query Azure CLI command output
* Kubernetes JSONPath Support
* az aks

CLIENTSECRETVALID=""
while [ -z $CLIENTSECRETVALID ]; do
echo "Creating new SP and secret..."
CLIENTSECRET=$(az ad sp create-for-rbac --skip-assignment -n $SPNAME -o json | jq -r .password)
if [[ $CLIENTSECRET == *"'"* ]]; then
echo "Found invalid character. Recreating..."
CLIENTSECRETVALID=""
elif [[ $CLIENTSECRET == *"\`"* ]]; then
echo "Found invalid character. Recreating..."
CLIENTSECRETVALID=""
else
echo "Appears valid..."
CLIENTSECRETVALID="true"
fi
done
echo "CLIENTSECRET ready: ${CLIENTSECRET}"

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