Creating dynamic variables during a pipeline run in Azure DevOps

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…

Integrating Azure Application Gateway with multiple custom domains with Azure APIM

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…

Storing and retrieving secrets in Azure KeyVault with Variable Groups in Azure DevOps Pipelines

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…

Create CSV reports from Log Analytics queries and email using Azure Logic Apps

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…

Deploying Terraform using Azure DevOps with Build Artifacts

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…

Network Security Group Rule Creation using Terraform

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

Deploy ARM template using Terraform

Deploy Terraform using Azure DevOps

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…

Creating custom runbooks from start/stop VM solution for specific sets of VMs using tags for sequenced start/stop

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 stopSchedule VMs to start and stop in…

Application Security Group assignment using PowerShell

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…