“the input device is not a TTY” fix when running Docker in Azure DevOps

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Attempting to run Docker in Azure DevOps and getting error "the input device is not a TTY"? In in this blog post, I will show you a simple fix used to resolve the issue I was having. When attempting to…

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Network Security Group Rule Creation using Terraform

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In this blog post I am going to create a set of Network Security Group rules in Terraform using the resource azurerm_network_security_rule and rather than copying this resource multiple times I will show how you can iterate over the same resource multiple times using for_each meta-argument in Terraform.

Validating Terraform Code During A Pull Request In Azure DevOps

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I will show how to create a branch policy that will run a CI pipeline to validate Terraform code along with a Terraform plan, during a Pull Request in Azure DevOps and will include the YAML CI Pipeline. Branch policies…

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Deploy ARM template using Terraform

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Deploy ARM template using Terraform

Deploy Terraform using Azure DevOps

Posted by Thomas Thorntonon in automation, Azure, Azure DevOps, Microsoft Azure, Terraform, tips4 Comments

Using Terraform to deploy your Azure resources is becoming more and more popular; in some instances overtaking the use of ARM to deploy into Azure. I will show you in this blog how you can deploy your Azure Resources created…

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Prevent unexpected high Azure spending by setting Budgets and cost alerts in your subscription

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Within this blog, I will show you how to Prevent unexpected high Azure spending by setting Budgets and Cost Alerts within your Azure Subscription. Within this setup, you will be looking at how to setup budgets for specific scopes within…

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Issue while replicating an On-premise Hyper-V guest to Azure error code 8079002c

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A quick blog post on a fix I found to resolve a replication issue between Hyper-V guest and Azure Migrate with error code 8079002c Using Azure Migrate and attempting to replicate an On-Premise Hyper-V guest (Server 2012R2) to azure, error code 8079002c kept appearing and the initial replication kept failing.

Assign Network Security Group to Virtual Machine Network Interface using PowerShell

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A blog post to show how you can assign a Network Security Group (NSG) to a Virtual Machine Network Interface (NIC) in Azure using PowerShell. Firstly, get the Network Security Group you want to have assigned to the Virtual Machine…

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Hyper-V prevented starting virtual machine because it is prepared for failover fix

Posted by Thomas Thorntonon in automation, Azure, Diagnostics, Microsoft Azure, troubleshooting, virtual machineLeave a comment

Using Azure Migrate to migrate Virtual Machines from a Hyper-V host to Azure, you may want to start a Hyper-V Virtual Machine (VM) after they have been migrated for various reasons including:- VM not accessible in AzureAzure Migration issue and…

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Connect to nested Hyper-V VMs in Azure from another Virtual Network using VPN Gateway

Posted by Thomas Thorntonon in Azure, Microsoft Azure, Networking, PowerShell, Route Table, troubleshooting, VPN GatewayLeave a comment

Nested Hyper-V VMs in Azure has been available for a while now, its great for alot of different scenarios such as unsupported operating systems that run legacy applications to sandbox environments. After creation of these VMs in a nested Hyper-V…

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