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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 Azure DevOps daily on a continuous basis but, have you thought about the security of your branches? In this blog post, I will give 6 recommendations to help you with securing your Azure DevOps branches! There is quite a number of ways and configurations you can do in relation to the security; these 6 … Read more
I am going to show how you can run Inspec-Azure tests in an Azure DevOps Pipeline to test and validate your Azure Resources. In a previous blog post, I blogged Using Inspec-Azure to test your Azure Resources . In that blog post I detail how to configure and run Inspec-Azure locally. In this post I will … Read more
Attempting to run Docker in Azure DevOps and getting error “the input device is not a TTY”? In in this blog post, I will show you a simple fix used to resolve the issue I was having. When attempting to use Docker inside a Bash@3 task; I kept getting the error:- The Docker command I … Read more
I will show how to create a branch policy that will run a CI pipeline to validate Terraform code along with a Terraform plan, during a Pull Request in Azure DevOps and will include the YAML CI Pipeline. Branch policies help teams protect their important branches of development. Policies enforce your team’s code quality and change management … Read more
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