A quick blog post on how to resolve the Terraform warning Warning: Version constraints inside provider configuration blocks are deprecated within your Terraform configuration. The fix below is in relation to azurerm provider, but similar fix can be used for…
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Azure Load Testing Managed Service First Thoughts
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,…
azure application gateway data for certificate is invalid error fix
A quick blog post to show a fix for when you get the error data for certificate is invalid error when applying backend settings within Azure Application Gateway. Within the Azure Activity log, you may come across this error: Error…
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Azure DevOps Pipelines – Remove the need to hard-code
Creating Azure DevOps Pipelines? If avoidable, try not hard code values within your DevOps pipeline! In this blog post; I am going to go through a small Terraform pipeline from hard-coded values to using parameters & variables What is hard-code?…
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Azure DevOps Pipelines – Keeping your pipelines DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself)
Working on Azure DevOps Pipelines you may notice some repetition over time, whether that be copying the same stage or task multiple times but changing some values. This will result in your pipeline growing and growing unnecessary over time. What…
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Log Analytics queries to CSV emailed using Azure Logic Apps
Log Analytics queries to CSV emailed using Azure Logic Apps can be used for automated reporting - using 4 steps! In this blog post, I will demo how this is done What are Logic Apps? A little resource with a…
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Provision and storing Terraform backend state remotely to use with TerraformTaskV1@0
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…
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Azure AKS aad-pod-identity Status code ‘404’ fix
A quick blog post to show the fix I implemented in relation to receiving this error:- failed to update user-assigned identities on node aks-nodepool-12345-vmss (add [19], del [76], update[0]), error: failed to update identities for aks-nodepool-12345-vmss in MC_aks_cluster_uksouth, error: azure.BearerAuthorizer#WithAuthorization:…
Azure Managed Identities and Service Principals
Azure Managed Identities and Service Principals and talked about regularly, in this blog I will go into briefly which each is and the main difference between a managed identity and service principal. Keeping credentials safe and secure has always been…
Inspec-Azure in Azure DevOps Pipeline
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…
Thomas Thornton - Microsoft Azure MVP - HashiCorp Ambassador 