Building better platforms with Azure, GitHub, Terraform and AI
In this blog post, I will show how you can deploy your MkDocs to GitHub Pages with GitHub Actions. What is MKDocs? MKDocs is a great little tool for creating a static site, used commonly to store repository documentation, drawings, some examples etc! MkDocs is a fast, simple and downright gorgeous static site generator that’s geared towards building project documentation. … 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
Recently I have been automating GitHub Pull Request Body with various updates/outputs from GitHub Actions, I wanted to create a quick blog post on a couple of ways to do this that will hopefully assist you. If you’re like me, you’ve probably found yourself in situations where you need to update the body of a … 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
As with all pull requests, we want to run various CI checks to ensure validation of your code and one of these is code quality, writing Terraform? Unsure if the Terraform in the pull-request is formatted correctly? This is where GitHub Actions come in handy. In this post, we’ll explore how to ensure your Terraform code … Read more
Kubernetes is ever growing and certainly a standard for container orchestration, however with it being picked up more and more by development teams, we want to ensure best practices and correctness of Kubernetes configuration files are valid. This can be tough and challenging to manage, let’s look at a tool that can assist you in … Read more
Just a very quick blog post to show a potential fix for GitHub Action error Resource not accessible by integration when attempting to upload SARIF report files to GitHub, I came across this when attempting to use GitHub action github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@v3 GitHub Action usage Was trying to upload a SARIF report from kube-linter with the simple … Read more
In this blog post – we will displaying Terraform plans directly within Azure DevOps Repository Pull Requests as a comment using Azure DevOps Pipelines. Prerequisites Please read this blog post prior, it has some prerequisites that are required before this pipeline will work successfully. Ensure you have: Azure DevOps Pipeline The Azure DevOps pipeline is … Read more