Practical insights on Platform Engineering, Azure, GitHub, Terraform, and AI-powered delivery
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
I presented a fun session with Karl Cooke presenting our Azure Back to School session “From Zero to GitOps with AKS”, in this session we cover:- What is AKS? Azure AKS architecture (Nodes and NodePools) Benefits of AKS GitOps GitOps Tooling Flux2 Terraform Azure Pipelines Demos! I do recommend checking out the session; where we … 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
In this blog post, I am going to show how to run ScoutSuite in an Azure DevOps Pipeline and display reports within an Azure Storage Account Static Website
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
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