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Getting Started with Terraform Preconditions

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Terraform preconditions enforce specific criteria before managing resources, enhancing reliability and reducing deployment risks. By integrating preconditions within the lifecycle block, users can enforce checks, preventing potential errors. Benefits include improved consistency, error prevention, compliance, and documentation. Simplifying preconditions, using variables, and thoroughly testing are key practices. Ultimately, preconditions bolster infrastructure integrity while maintaining manageable configurations.

Improve Terraform Configurations with Variable Validation

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Terraform variable validation, introduced in version 0.13, enables developers to enforce specific criteria for variable inputs, thus preventing errors and misconfigurations in resources. This includes defining conditions and error messages for various variables. Best practices emphasise clear messaging and the use of Terraform functions to improve reliability and maintainability in configurations.

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.

Using GitHub CLI with GitHub Actions for GitHub Project automation

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The blog post details the integration of GitHub CLI with GitHub Actions to automate project management. It explains how to move newly opened issues to a project board’s “ToDo” column via a custom workflow, highlighting the CLI’s customisation options and advantages over built-in workflows. Future posts will explore further automation possibilities.

GitHub Universe 2024 – My Highlights

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GitHub Universe Octocat with Alcatraz in background

Last week, I had the incredible opportunity to attend GitHub Universe in San Francisco, and what an experience it was! This blog post will share some key insights and highlights from the event. There’s so much to cover. I’ll only scratch the surface. 🙂 GitHub Universe In 2024, it would not be a conference if … Read more

Automating Logic App Deployments: From Designer to Terraform

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I have been building several Logic Apps recently. I wanted to fully automate the setup and configuration using Terraform. In this blog post I will be showing you how to automate the Logic App Designer to Terraform. Its a slightly different blog post than usual, rather than full blown automation from the start, in this … Read more

Azure Logic App Consumption Plan Creation using Terraform

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Lets look at creating an Azure Logic App with a consumption plan using Terraform. Azure Logic Apps are a cloud service that allows you to automate workflows, business processes, and integrations across various services.  Why the Consumption plan? I like using this plan as it offers the pay-per-execution pricing model. I use it for Logic … Read more

Using Terraform for Geo-Restore in Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server

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It was recently announced that you can now use Terraform to Geo-Restore within PostgreSQL Flexible server. I will show how you can do this within this blog post. Terraform support for Geo-Restore allows you to incorporate the functionality into your CI/CD tooling! What is Geo-Restore? Geo-Restore is a powerful disaster recovery feature for Azure Database … Read more

Quick Fix: Resolving the ‘subscription_id is a required provider property’ Error in Terraform

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Using Terraform and came across this error: “subscription_id is a required provider property when performing a plan/apply operation”? This blog post is for you – a quick post on how to fix this and get you back to deploying using Terraform Full error output Lets look quickly at the full output when trying to run … Read more

Dynamic Matrices in GitHub Actions

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Learn how to set up dynamic matrices in GitHub Actions to run jobs multiple times based on specific criteria