Building better platforms with Azure, GitHub, Terraform and AI
Azure DevOps pipeline templates allow you to create multiple types of templates that you can define and reuse in multiple pipelines. In this blog post I am going to show how you can create template jobs! Each stage will have its own templated job that has multiple tasks. In this example I will be templating … Read more
Are you ready to Terraform? Are you ready to deploy to Azure via Pipelines as code? Then you are going to enjoy this blog post! I’ve blogged a lot recently about Azure DevOps and Terraform; both very relevant topics in Azure in relation to deploying IaC in a pipeline. This blog post; I am going … Read more
Deploying your pipeline from end-to-end is an automated process; but for some reason you want to have an approval before two stages or have hold between two stages, what can you do? You can add an approval gate to your pipeline! The approval and gates process helps you take further control of your pipeline; rather … Read more
Terraform must store state about your Azure Infrastructure and additional configurations. This “state” is used by Terraform to plan against any related real world resources. It uses the state to create the plan when you run “terraform plan” and also used to make any changes to your infrastructure; including any additions and removals. The state … Read more
In this blog post, I am going to show how you can deploy Terraform using Azure DevOps with a Build Artifact that is created during the Terraform plan stage. Why Build Artifacts for Terraform? Working in a busy environment, you may be wanting multiple iterations of the Terraform pipeline; these iterations may require an approval … Read more
I am going to show how you can deploy a static Azure Storage Website using Terraform; this supports static content from HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Image Files. These files are served from a storage container that needs to be called $web A V2 Storage Account is also required. During initial setup of the website it … Read more
In this blog post, I am going to be diving further into deploying Azure Resources with Terraform using Azure DevOps with a CI/CD perspective in mind. I am going to show how you can deploy a develop & production terraform environment consecutively using Azure DevOps pipelines and showing how this is done by using pipeline … Read more
I am going to show how you can run Inspec-Azure tests in an Azure DevOps Pipeline to test and validate your Azure Resources. In a previous blog post, I blogged Using Inspec-Azure to test your Azure Resources . In that blog post I detail how to configure and run Inspec-Azure locally. In this post I will … Read more
In this blog post I am going to create a set of Network Security Group rules in Terraform using the resource azurerm_network_security_rule and rather than copying this resource multiple times I will show how you can iterate over the same resource multiple times using for_each meta-argument in Terraform.
I will show how to create a branch policy that will run a CI pipeline to validate Terraform code along with a Terraform plan, during a Pull Request in Azure DevOps and will include the YAML CI Pipeline. Branch policies help teams protect their important branches of development. Policies enforce your team’s code quality and change management … Read more