Displaying Terraform Plan as a comment in Azure DevOps Repo PRs with Azure DevOps Pipelines

In this blog post - we will displaying Terraform plans directly within Azure DevOps Repository Pull Requests as a comment using Azure DevOps Pipelines. Prerequisites Please read this blog post prior, it has some prerequisites that are required before this…

Adding pull-request comments to Azure DevOps Repo from Azure DevOps Pipelines

Sometimes as part of your pull request process, you may want to include outputs, checks, or other relevant information as comments after your pipeline runs on various stages and tasks. In this blog post we will look and how this…

Using variables to dynamically check out a repository using a specific branch or tag in Azure DevOps Pipelines

In Azure DevOps pipeline, you might want to check out a repository using a specific branch or tag, in this blog post - I am going to show how you can use variables to dynamically achieve this! Why dynamic? My…

Creating Terraform Variables from Azure DevOps Pipeline Variables

Deploying Terraform using an Azure DevOps pipeline, you can use pipeline variables as part of your Terraform variables, in this blog post I will show you how. With Terraform, you are probably using .tfvars if deploying the multiple environments -…

If, elseif or else in Azure DevOps Pipelines

Writing Azure DevOps Pipelines YAML, have you thought about including some conditional expressions? In this blog post, I am going to show how you can use If, elseif or else expressions to assist in your pipeline creation Probably the most…

Analyze your Kubernetes YAML files and Helm Charts to ensure best practices using KuberLinter in Azure DevOps Pipeline

Deploying a number of YAML files or Helm Charts as part of your Kubernetes deployment? Unsure if they are representing best practices? KubeLinter will help you to achieve best practices within your YAML configurations & Helm Charts - I will…

Creating dynamic variables during a pipeline run in Azure DevOps

In Azure DevOps Pipelines - you can create variables "on the fly" during your pipeline run! Wanting to create a variable such as resource ID, location of a resource in Azure etc? This blog post is for you! I will…

Deploy to Azure Container App from Azure Container Registry using a CI/CD Azure DevOps Pipeline and Azure CLI

Azure Container Apps are relatively new in Azure, still in Preview as of writing this blog post. In this blog, I will be deploying to Azure Container App from Azure Container Registry using a CI/CD Azure DevOps Pipeline and Azure…

Deploy to Azure Container Instance from Azure Container Registry using a CI/CD Azure DevOps Pipeline and Terraform

I am going to show using an Azure DevOps Pipeline and Terraform how you can deploy to your Azure Container Instance and setting up the pipeline to build a new Image and enabling CI/CD when you push to the repository…

Setting up Azure DevOps to begin deploying Terraform and configuring an Azure Storage Account for Terraform remote state

Within this blog post I am going to show how to setup Azure DevOps and configuring an Azure Storage Account for Terraform remote state. I write numerous blog posts that do reference this scenario quite often; rather than repeating myself…