What is Infrastructure as Code (IaC) ? IaC Explained

In today’s fast-paced tech landscape, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is truely revolutionising how we manage and deploy environments. By automating infrastructure setup through code, IaC eliminates inconsistencies, accelerates deployment, allowing you to increase Productivity and deploy faster along with reducing the fear that something will go wrong in your Production environment – it gives you … Read more

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? Think of it from a pipeline perspective, you create a stage within your pipeline and … Read more

Creating Templates For Azure DevOps Pipeline Jobs

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

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 big outcome, Logic Apps assist you with automated workflow; scheduling, automating, coposing a task or … Read more

Deploying Terraform from develop to production consecutively using Azure DevOps

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

Using Inspec-Azure to test your Azure Resources

Inspec-Azure is a resource pack provided by Chef that uses the Azure REST API, to allow you to write tests for resources that you have deployed in Microsoft Azure. These tests can be used to validate the Azures resources that were deployed via code using Terraform or Azure RM templates. Inspec is an open source … Read more