automation

AKS Preview API lifecycle – Script to check if deprecated API versions are being used

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The post discusses an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) user’s experience with preview API retirements and shares a script to check current API versions in use. AKS preview APIs last about a year, and the script functionality includes querying the activity log for specific API versions. It generates a report detailing API usage, enabling proactive management to avoid deprecated versions and ensuring timely updates in Azure environments.

Creating reusable Terraform with Terraform modules

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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 can create what is called a Terraform module to assist you with this repetition allowing … Read more

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

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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 “secrets” but it is stored directly within Azure DevOps, I much prefer to store secrets … Read more

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

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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 with automated workflow; scheduling, automating, composing a task or even rewriting a task. Very cost … Read more

Copy Azure KeyVault secrets to another KeyVault using Azure CLI

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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 not already present in keyvaultnewtest from keyvaultold I created a bash script using Azure CLI, … Read more

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

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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 Workflows. This sort of requirement is useful if the agent or runner requires access that … Read more

Deploying Azure Bicep using GitHub Actions

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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 – Bicep is a Domain Specific Language (DSL) for ARM templates. Taken from the documentation:- … Read more

What is Infrastructure as Code (IaC) ? IaC Explained

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In today’s fast-paced tech landscape, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is truely revolutionising how we manage and deploy environments. By automating infrastructure setup through code, IaC eliminates inconsistencies, accelerates deployment, 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 … Read more

Terraforming from zero to pipelines as code with Azure DevOps

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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 Azure in relation to deploying IaC in a pipeline. This blog post; I am going … Read more

Deploying ARM Templates using Azure DevOps Pipelines

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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 Azure DevOps, it is a hosted service by Microsoft that provides an end-to-end DevOps toolchain … Read more