Building better platforms with Azure, GitHub, Terraform and AI
Ever found yourself wishing GitHub Copilot understood a brand-new feature or recent update you want to use? Maybe you’re writing Terraform and GitHub Copilot claims a resource value doesn’t exist – even though you know it does. This isn’t a limitation of GitHub Copilot itself, but rather of the underlying AI model it’s using (like … Read more
Have you ever stared at a mountain of bug tickets, documentation chores, and those “someday” refactors, wishing you could just hand them off to someone else? I have.
Recently at Microsoft Build, GitHub announced Coding Agent and it caught my attention for all the right reasons!
Recently I blogged about Deploying to Azure: Secure Your GitHub Workflow with OIDC, this is a follow on post – looking at deploying Terraform to Azure using OIDC and GitHub Actions With Microsoft and GitHub both emphasising identity-based access, using OIDC for Terraform deployments isn’t just secure. It will become the new norm. OIDC authentication … Read more
In this blog post, I will cover what are ephmeral resources, why write-only arguments should be used and an example both being used in Azure to store and retrieve sensitive values without them being stored in the state file.
I have been using GitHub Copilot for quite some time now in my IDE, its my daily driver – hopefully you have been doing similar. Have you ever had that moment where GitHub Copilot suggests code and you think, “Hmm, close… but not quite”? Like it almost gets your style, but then throws in a … Read more
This blog post explains how to set up automated Home Assistant backups using Azure Files. This ensures your smart home configuration is always safe and recoverable. If you’ve ever faced the nightmare of a broken setup with no backups, you will understand the importance of this guide. This guide will provide a secure, scalable, and … Read more
Have you ever pushed code to production only to lie awake wondering, “Did I just deploy a vulnerability?” You’re not alone. But what if I told you that you can automate security scanning right within your GitHub workflows? I am going to be creating a few upcoming blog posts on various tools that can be … Read more
A quick blog post to detail how to fix error Resource Not Accessible by Integration within your GitHub Actions. I came across this initially when trying to upload a .sarf report as part of Trivy scanning. The error In my case, I attempted to upload a SARIF report. This file helps with code scanning. I … Read more
OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication for GitHub Actions and Azure deployments is a real game-changer in the world of security. It significantly enhances security when deploying to your Azure environment. In this blog post, I’ll explain why to use OIDC, walk through setting up an Azure AD application with federated credentials using Azure CLI, and demonstrate … Read more
Using Azure Logic Apps within your environment and wanting to get the current date and time within the Logic App? In this blog post I will show how you can do this with using the function utcNow() What is utcnow() ? utcNow(), as I mentioned above, is a function in Azure Logic Apps. It is … Read more