Building better platforms with Azure, GitHub, Terraform and AI
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
Attempting to run Docker in Azure DevOps and getting error “the input device is not a TTY”? In in this blog post, I will show you a simple fix used to resolve the issue I was having. When attempting to use Docker inside a Bash@3 task; I kept getting the error:- The Docker command I … 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
Deploy ARM template using Terraform
Using Terraform to deploy your Azure resources is becoming more and more popular; in some instances overtaking the use of ARM to deploy into Azure. I will show you in this blog how you can deploy your Azure Resources created in Terraform using Azure DevOps finishing with an example .yml pipeline. What is Azure DevOps? … Read more
This blog explains how to prevent unexpected high Azure spending by setting budgets and cost alerts within your Azure Subscription. It covers setting up budgets for specific scopes, creating alerts, and monitoring spending through a dashboard. The process includes configuring cost management settings and creating budgets with specific criteria.
Quite often I do get asked about Azure Virtual Machine security and what I recommend you to configure/look at in relation to securing your Virtual Machine configuration. In this blog, I am going to include 6 Virtual Machine security security suggestions to get you started that you may want to consider applying to your Virtual … Read more
After a recent migration of a Linux VM (Ubuntu 16.04) from a data centre to Azure using Azure Migrate, it didn’t include the installation of WALinuxAgent Why is this needed? This agent is how the Virtual Machine communicates with Azure, it manages the Linux provisioning and VM interaction with the Azure Fabric Controller, pretty much … Read more
I am going to show you how to create a Hub-Spoke network configuration with Azure Firewall using PowerShell. What is a Hub-Spoke network? Think of the Hub-Spoke as two different networks, network1 is hub, network2 is spoke. Network1 acts as the central point of connectivity and perimeter for your network where all traffic has to … Read more