Practical insights on Platform Engineering, Azure, GitHub, Terraform, and AI-powered delivery
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
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
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
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
In this blog post we will look at how you would use tfvars to deploy to multiple environments in Azure. Deploying Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to multiple environments, we want to keep scalability in mind along with the thought of removing duplication when possible. Managing infrastructure configurations across different environments can be challenging, this is … Read more
In this blog post, I’ll show you on how to set up a content filtering configuration in Azure OpenAI Studio and apply it to your OpenAI deployment entirely using Terraform. Since there isn’t a native Terraform resource available for content filtering configurations, I will be using azapi_resource to assist with this. The content filtering system … Read more
In this blog post, we will look at enabling PostgreSQL flexible server logs and setting a retention period using Terraform. (Somewhat a new feature (was in Preview), the ability to enable server logs.) Deploying a sample server below, we can see within “Server Logs” that it currently isn’t enabled by default. Reviewing the linked learn.microsoft.com … Read more
Scaling Terraform Deployments with GitHub Actions: Essential Configurations, is part of the 90 Days of DevOps event that Michael Cade has been running, certainly check out the event for lots more awesome DevOps related contributions here What have I covered in this session? My session is a presentation & demo – that covers essential configurations … Read more