Enable multifactor authentication for your tenant on Azure

Daniel Handloser — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 09:31:03 +0000

As many others, I've recently gotten the email saying "Action required: Enable multi-factor authentication for your tenant by 15 October 2024".

Since the docs are very exhaustive and cover the various ways of authentication, especially for large organizations, I wanted to give a quick guide on how to set up multi-factor authentication (MFA) or more specifically 2-factor authentication (2FA) on Azure for default personal accounts.

Login to portal.azure.com
Search for "authentication methods" and click "Microsoft Entra authentication methods"

Enable one of the MFA methods, e.g. "Email OTP"
- Toggle "Enable"
- Select "Include" and "All users"
- Press "Save"

That's it, you will now be required to submit a one time password (OTP) when logging in.

Automating PR comments with Github CLI

Daniel Handloser — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 09:39:43 +0000

As an engineer, my day-to-day involves reviewing pull requests (PRs). Oftentimes these are small changes and I would review around 30 PRs per week.

For me to approve a request, I need to trigger different checks by commenting on the PR. If you're going through the same struggle every day, here is how to automate this process with Github CLI.

Installation

On macOS: make sure you have 'brew' installed and run

brew install gh

Bash script

We're going to write a small bash script that fetches all open PRs and creates a comment.

On your console cd to the directory of the repository that the pull requests are in. gh pr list will allow us to find all open PRs.

Depending on your needs you can find different flags in the documentation. For my work I usually look at all PRs with a certain title, the query is gh pr list -S "<YOUR SEARCH>". To make a comment, we need the PRs ID, which is called number in Github. We can extract that by telling gh to output a JSON.

With the command-line JSON processor jq we're getting the number of the PR:

gh pr list -S "<YOUR SEARCH>" --json "number" --jq '.[].number'

Looping over the results we can add a comment to every PR in our list. This is the final snippet:

for prNumber in $(gh pr list -S "<YOUR SEARCH>" --json "number" --jq '.[].number'); do
    echo "Triggering PR no. $prNumber\n"
    gh pr comment $prNumber --body "<YOUR MESSAGE>"
done

And we're done. This will leave a comment on all the PRs from your search query.

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Enable multifactor authentication for your tenant on Azure

Automating PR comments with Github CLI

Installation

Bash script