Practical insights on Platform Engineering, Azure, GitHub, Terraform, and AI-powered delivery
Creating dynamic environment variables in GitHub Actions are super useful. I have been doing this recently on a few workflows and thought I’d share a quick guide on how to set up dynamic environment variables with some practical examples. Using $GITHUB_ENV to Create Dynamic Environment Variables $GITHUB_ENV is a file path used by GitHub Actions. … Read more
Developers and architects are more often than ever wanting to build AI-powered tools that can assist them with their development journey, but finding time and resources can be a challenge. This is where AEP (AI Enhanced Platform) steps in, offering a platform that includes ready-to-use Generative AI workflows along with a flexible framework to help … Read more
This guide looks at Optimising Azure NSG Rules Creation with Terraform. We’ll look at how to use the try function with for_each for Terraform NSG Rule Configuration and all arguments for azurerm_network_security_rule, providing a Step-by-Step Terraform NSG Guide for optimising Terraform Azure NSG Rules. A follow on from my popular blog post: Network Security Group … Read more
The try function combined with for_each in Terraform offers a great approach to handling multiple variations in data structures within Terraform. In this blog post, we will look at using both these features to develop more resilient and adaptable Terraform configurations and will also include an example of this usage Quick overview of try and … Read more
I have used Log Analytics & Kusto Query Language (KQL) quite alot over the years, recently I been spending sometime writing a number of queries that have time based filtering included, such as return data for a specific month, specific time frame etc – have created a quick blog post to show some of these … Read more
When managing a GitHub Pull Request (PR) workflow, numerous continuous integration (CI) checks typically run to ensure code quality, functionality, and compliance with project standards. Keeping track of these checks and providing timely, consistent feedback to contributors can be challenging. In this blog post, I’ll show how to enhance your PR process by adding automated … Read more
Application Gateway for Containers (AGFC) is a newer and improved version of the earlier Application Gateway Ingress Controller (AGIC), which you might be familiar with if you’ve used Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). This iteration advances Azure’s Application Load Balancing capabilities and adds a fresh offering to the Application Gateway product lineup. As I mentioned new … Read more
Using Open AI, you have probably came across prompt injections – Azure recently released a new service called AI Prompt Shields. In this blog post we will look at how you can deploy Azure AI Prompt Shield to mitigate against prompt injections – this will be deployed using Terraform with an example of mitigating. What … Read more
Within your GitHub Actions, you may be running a lot of workflows continuously during a merge to the main branch – a way to mitigate the possibility of them always running is to implement path filters. What are path filters? Path filters in GitHub Actions allow you specify when the workflow/action runs essentially, it helps … Read more
In this blog post, I will show how you can deploy your MkDocs to GitHub Pages with GitHub Actions. What is MKDocs? MKDocs is a great little tool for creating a static site, used commonly to store repository documentation, drawings, some examples etc! MkDocs is a fast, simple and downright gorgeous static site generator that’s geared towards building project documentation. … Read more