Thomas Thornton – Microsoft Azure MVP – HashiCorp Ambassador
Microsoft Azure Blog – Microsoft MVP
In today's world, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has become a fundamental part of managing and deploying cloud infrastructure. Terraform is a widely used IaC tool that enables us to define our infrastructure as code, store it in version control, and…
Read More My thoughts on why you should use Terraform Provisioners as a final option
In this blog, we will explore how to use environment variables in GitHub Actions, including how to create and use them in your workflows. Environment variables are an essential part of any software development process, and GitHub Actions makes it…
In Terraform you can use variables to make your code more dynamic and reusable. You can use variables to pass in values from the command line, from a file, or from environment variables. In this blog post I will show…
Read More Using GitHub Actions variables as Terraform variables
Deploying Terraform to Azure is a great way to manage your infrastructure as code. In this blog post, I will show you how to use Azure Key Vault to store your Terraform secrets. I was asked this query recently and…
Read More Terraform Secret Management in Azure using Azure Key Vault
In this blog post I will show you can use a GitHub Action to run Yarn build and deploy a container image to Azure Container Registry. Prior to continuing with this blog, please review this post in relation to setting…
Read More Yarn Build and deploy image to Azure Container Registry using GitHub Actions
Using GitHub Actions and wanting to store secrets security while utilising Azure? In this blog post I will be showing how you can create and store secrets in Azure Key Vault and retrieve them to be used as part of…
Read More Storing and retrieving secrets in Azure Key Vault with GitHub Actions
I have been asked a lot recently on how to learn the basics of Terraform and deploy into Azure, I have now created a self-led GitHub repository tutorial/course to give you an understanding on deploying Terraform on Azure from the…
Read More Learn Terraform and deploy to Azure using self-led GitHub Repository
In this blog post, I am going to show how you can Deploy an Azure Container Image and pull its image from Azure Container Registry using an user assigned managed identity - all done via Terraform. In a previous blog…
Read More Deploy Container App and pull image from Azure Container Registry using Terraform
In a recent announcement, Azure Load Testing has now became GA and in this blog, I will be giving a brief overview of using it along with first thoughts! Having used a number of Load testing suites throughout the years,…
In this blog I am going to show how to deploy Container App and pull an image from Azure Container Registry using user assigned managed identity for authentication. I will be achieving this using Terraform and AzAPI. Image below shows…
Thomas Thornton - Microsoft Azure MVP - HashiCorp Ambassador 