Practical insights on Platform Engineering, Azure, GitHub, Terraform, and AI-powered delivery
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 big outcome, Logic Apps assist you with automated workflow; scheduling, automating, coposing a task or … Read more
In this blog post, I am going to show how you can deploy Terraform using Azure DevOps with a Build Artifact that is created during the Terraform plan stage. Why Build Artifacts for Terraform? Working in a busy environment, you may be wanting multiple iterations of the Terraform pipeline; these iterations may require an approval … Read more
Looking to query Azure SQL SQL Database using Service Principal with PowerShell? Have a look at this blog post! Recently I had been asked to configure a script that can be used to query an Azure SQL Database table data using a service principal with PowerShell; in this blog post I am going to show … Read more
In this blog post, I am going to be diving further into deploying Azure Resources with Terraform using Azure DevOps with a CI/CD perspective in mind. I am going to show how you can deploy a develop & production terraform environment consecutively using Azure DevOps pipelines and showing how this is done by using pipeline … Read more
I am going to show how you can run Inspec-Azure tests in an Azure DevOps Pipeline to test and validate your Azure Resources. In a previous blog post, I blogged Using Inspec-Azure to test your Azure Resources . In that blog post I detail how to configure and run Inspec-Azure locally. In this post I will … Read more
Inspec-Azure is a resource pack provided by Chef that uses the Azure REST API, to allow you to write tests for resources that you have deployed in Microsoft Azure. These tests can be used to validate the Azures resources that were deployed via code using Terraform or Azure RM templates. Inspec is an open source … Read more
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.
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 help teams protect their important branches of development. Policies enforce your team’s code quality and change management … Read more
Deploy ARM template using Terraform
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 in Terraform using Azure DevOps finishing with an example .yml pipeline. What is Azure DevOps? … Read more