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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
Want to publish various APIs with multiple domain names while using the same Azure APIM instance? In this blog I am going to show how you can achieve this with Integrating an Azure Application Gateway with multiple custom domains with a single Azure APIM instance Context You may have an APIM instance deployed with an … Read more
Using Azure DevOps Pipelines and want to store secrets in Azure KeyVault? Use a variable group with Key Vault integration to retrieve these secrets and use within your DevOps pipeline Why Azure KeyVault? Using a variable group, you can store “secrets” but it is stored directly within Azure DevOps, I much prefer to store secrets … Read more
Creating CSV reports from Log Analytics queries and email using Azure Logic Apps can be done in a few steps using a simple Workflow design! What are Logic Apps? A little resource with a big outcome, Logic Apps assist you with automated workflow; scheduling, automating, composing a task or even rewriting a task. Very cost … Read more
In this blog post, I am going to show how you can deploy Terraform using Azure DevOps with a Build Artifact that is created during the Terraform plan stage. Why Build Artifacts for Terraform? Working in a busy environment, you may be wanting multiple iterations of the Terraform pipeline; these iterations may require an approval … 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.
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
Azure provides a start/stop VM solution that allows you to stop/start VMs on a schedule; it consists of multiple PowerShell runbooks. This solution offers three options when deployed:- Schedule VMs to start and stop Schedule VMs to start and stop in ascending order by using Azure Tags Autostop Vms based on low CPU usage Overtime … Read more
What are Application Security Groups? (ASGs) ASGs are used within a NSG to apply a network security rule to a specific workload or group of VMs – defined by ASG worked as being the “network object” & expilicit IP addresses are added to this object. This provides the capability to group VMs into associated groups … Read more