Building better platforms with Azure, GitHub, Terraform and AI
Are you using Terraform? Deploying to multiple environments? Terraform code duplication? If you answered yes, in this blog post I am going to look at creating reusable Terraform modules including the basics, benefits and why you should be using them and finish with two examples. Deploying and managing Terraform over time in a single file … Read more
It has been 2.5 years from my last in person event, what a pleasure it was to see an email arrive with an invite to attend Microsoft Build UK in person event! What a totally epic event it was, met a lot of people who I have spoke to online but didn’t have the chance … Read more
Writing Azure DevOps Pipelines YAML, have you thought about including some conditional expressions? In this blog post, I am going to show how you can use If, elseif or else expressions to assist in your pipeline creation Probably the most common expression you may be using is determining if a stage or job can run. … Read more
Deploying a number of YAML files or Helm Charts as part of your Kubernetes deployment? Unsure if they are representing best practices? KubeLinter will help you to achieve best practices within your YAML configurations & Helm Charts – I will show how you can add this tool as part of your CI integration tooling or … Read more
In Azure DevOps Pipelines – you can create variables “on the fly” during your pipeline run! Wanting to create a variable such as resource ID, location of a resource in Azure etc? This blog post is for you! I will show how you can dynamically create variables during a pipeline run that can be referenced … Read more
Storing your application container images in Azure Container Registry(ACR)? In this blog post, I am going to show how you can deploy a new container image to ACR automatically using a GitHub Action when there has been a merge to the main branch in GitHub GitHub Repository Secrets To start, we need to create two … Read more
A quick blog post on how to store your secrets in Azure Key Vault and referencing them within your Terraform configurations. The Azure Key Vault and secrets Azure key Vault and secrets is certainly the recommended approach for storing secrets in Azure! Benefits include: Now the Terraform I am assuming you have used Terraform previously; … Read more
You may have the requirement of creating self-hosted agents in Azure DevOps, there are multiple ways of doing this including Virtual Machine, Virtual Machine Scaleset & various Container-type approaches. In this blog I am going to to be using Azure Container Apps and KEDA to create self-hosted scalable Azure DevOps Agents deployed using Azure DevOps … Read more
Was recently deploying an APIM instance using automaton and noticed error ServiceAlreadyExistsInSoftDeletedState in the output. Full error below To resolve this soft-delete with APIM resource; currently only available option is via Azure API. I used the below to assist in resolving this error: API reference used here I thought i’d add this issue/resolution to my … Read more
Azure Container Apps are relatively new in Azure, still in Preview as of writing this blog post. In this blog, I will be deploying to Azure Container App from Azure Container Registry using a CI/CD Azure DevOps Pipeline and Azure CLI. You may be thinking, what is the difference between a Container App and Container … Read more