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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
I am going to show using an Azure DevOps Pipeline and Terraform how you can deploy to your Azure Container Instance and setting up the pipeline to build a new Image and enabling CI/CD when you push to the repository – the pipeline will build a new image and deploy the updated image to the … Read more
Within this blog post I am going to show how to setup Azure DevOps and configuring an Azure Storage Account for Terraform remote state. I write numerous blog posts that do reference this scenario quite often; rather than repeating myself within each post I am creating this base post of which I will be referencing … Read more
A quick blog post to detail the simple fix of when you see the error: spawn terraform ENOENT when running your Terraform within an Azure DevOps Pipeline. Depending on which stages you have setup to run, you will notice this at the terraform init stage. Error output from Azure DevOps Pipeline Within the Azure DevOps … Read more
Recently I got an Elgato Stream Deck – they are awesome for Productivity! In this blog post I am going to show how you can run builds and releases in Azure DevOps by clicking on your Stream Deck and also the ability to autorefresh the status of builds & releases Setting up Elgato Stream Deck … Read more
This is a workshop/lab setup that I created; it is going to take you through a DevOps journey using Azure DevOps. From setting up your pipeline to deploying an application to your Azure Kubernetes cluster! This is also my contribution to this years Festive Tech Calendar – don’t forget to check out this content, its … Read more
In this blog post I am going to show how you can build and push Docker Images to Azure Container Registry (ACR) using an Azure DevOps Pipeline. Create Azure Container Registry Run the below AZ CLI to create a resource group and azure container registry Update the variables as highlighted It will create as below … Read more
Creating Azure DevOps Pipelines, have you used a condition to determine which variables to use? If not, I will detail in this blog post how you can do this! What is a condition? Conditions or statements that are used to determine an outcome; used widely in programming. Some examples of conditions:- If today is Monday … 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
Using Azure DevOps & wanting to deploy an Azure DevOps self-hosted agent using Terraform? In this blog I will show you how by creating all the required Azure resources for IaaS self-hosted agent! Why use an Azure DevOps self-hosted agent? Numerous reasons to why you may want to use an self-hosted agent > Microsoft hosted … Read more