Creating reusable Terraform with Terraform modules

Writing Terraform; like any other IaC toolset, over time you may be repeating the same process for common resources such as an Azure Virtual network, Container registry, Postgres Database etc - instead of copying the same resource multiple times, you…

Storing and retrieving secrets in Azure KeyVault with Variable Groups in Azure DevOps Pipelines

Using Azure DevOps Pipelines and want to store secrets in Azure KeyVault? Use a variable group with Key Vault integration to retrieve these secrets and use within your DevOps pipeline Why Azure KeyVault? Using a variable group, you can store…

Create CSV reports from Log Analytics queries and email using Azure Logic Apps

Creating CSV reports from Log Analytics queries and email using Azure Logic Apps can be done in a few steps using a simple Workflow design! What are Logic Apps? A little resource with a big outcome, Logic Apps assist you…

Copy Azure KeyVault secrets to another KeyVault using Azure CLI

I am going to show how you can copy Azure KeyVault secrets to another KeyVault using Azure CLI. I have two key vaults, keyvaultold - Contains secrets1 to secret7 keyvaultnewtest - Contains secret7 I want to copy secrets that are…

Get Public IP address of Azure DevOps hosted agent and Github-hosted runner

Wanting to know the specific Public IP address of an Azure DevOps hosted agent or GitHub-hosted runner? In this blog post I am going to show examples of how to retrieve each using bash within Azure DevOps Pipelines and GitHub…

Deploying Azure Bicep using GitHub Actions

Using Azure Bicep and want to deploy your Bicep configuration to Azure using GitHub Actions, in this blog post I am going to show how you can achieve this! What is Azure Bicep? Its the Next Generation of ARM templates…

Why Infrastructure as Code (IaC) ?

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) allows you to remove inconsistencies in your deployments and environments allowing you to increase Productivity and deploy faster along with reducing the fear that something will go wrong in your Production environment - it gives you…

Terraforming from zero to pipelines as code with Azure DevOps

Are you ready to Terraform? Are you ready to deploy to Azure via Pipelines as code? Then you are going to enjoy this blog post! I've blogged a lot recently about Azure DevOps and Terraform; both very relevant topics in…

Deploying ARM Templates using Azure DevOps Pipelines

Deploying ARM Templates and want to deploy using Azure DevOps Pipelines? Lets have a look in this blog post on how to achieve this! What is Azure DevOps? Deploying resources already into Azure; you probably already have came across using…

Log Analytics queries to CSV emailed using Azure Logic Apps

Log Analytics queries to CSV emailed using Azure Logic Apps can be used for automated reporting - using 4 steps! In this blog post, I will demo how this is done What are Logic Apps? A little resource with a…