In this blog, we will explore how to use environment variables in GitHub Actions, including how to create and use them in your workflows. Environment variables are an essential part of any software development process, and GitHub Actions makes it…
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Using GitHub Actions variables as Terraform variables
In Terraform you can use variables to make your code more dynamic and reusable. You can use variables to pass in values from the command line, from a file, or from environment variables. In this blog post I will show…
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GitHub Action Workflow hashicorp/setup-terraform@v2 ERROR: Please run ‘az login’ to setup accountGitHub Action Workflow hashicorp/setup-terraform@v2 error:
A quick blog post on assisting with a couple of errors I came across when using workflow hashicorp/setup-terraform@v2 - this also remediates hashicorp/setup-terraform@v1 also. Two errors found, relating to the same fix: First error: Error: building AzureRM Client: obtain subscription()…
Storing and retrieving secrets in Azure Key Vault with GitHub Actions
Using GitHub Actions and wanting to store secrets security while utilising Azure? In this blog post I will be showing how you can create and store secrets in Azure Key Vault and retrieve them to be used as part of…
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Deploy your first container app using Terraform and GitHub Actions tutorial/lab
This tutorial/lab has been created to take you through a DevOps journey to build & deploy an Azure Container Application using Terraform and GitHub Actions. It will include from setting up the GitHub pipeline, prerequisites and finishing with a successful…
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DevOps the hard way in Azure
Wanting to understand how to use DevOps technologies and practices for deploying apps and cloud infrastructure to Azure? I've created a tutorial based on this! This tutorial contains a full, real-world solution for setting up an environment that is using…
Get Public IP address of Azure DevOps hosted agent and Github-hosted runner
Wanting to know the specific Public IP address of an Azure DevOps hosted agent or GitHub-hosted runner? In this blog post I am going to show examples of how to retrieve each using bash within Azure DevOps Pipelines and GitHub…
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Deploy Terraform using GitHub Actions to Azure
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…
Thomas Thornton - Microsoft Azure MVP - HashiCorp Ambassador 