Building better platforms with Azure, GitHub, Terraform and AI
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has really revolutionised the way we manage and deploy our cloud resources. By treating infrastructure as code, we can automate the provisioning and management of cloud resources, making it faster, more reliable, and more scalable all while including the ability to have full source control benefits. However, writing IaC can be … Read more
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 use it to provision and manage our cloud resources. Provisioners in Terraform are used to … Read more
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 easy to manage them. Environment variables are values that are stored outside of your source … Read more
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 you how to use GitHub Actions variables as Terraform variables. GitHub Actions Variables GitHub Actions … Read more
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 thought I would create a quick blog post to show how to do this. Why … Read more
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 up the Azure Container registry and creating the three secrets required to be included in … Read more
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 your GitHub Actions. I wrote a bash script to achieve this as Azure/get-keyvault-secrets@v1 has been … Read more
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 basics of Terraform to deploying to Azure! The GitHub repository https://github.com/thomast1906/terraform-on-azure What you will learn … Read more
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 post, I completed similar using Terraform and AzAPI but in a recent Terraform update 3.43.0 … Read more
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, I was very curious when Azure Load Testing was announced as a fully-managed Azure service! … Read more