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Azure Load Testing Managed Service First Thoughts

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Screenshot from Azure Load Testing displaying a test rule. The image shows the configuration details of a specific test rule, including parameters such as conditions, thresholds, and actions associated with the rule. It highlights how the test rule is set up to monitor and respond to specific performance criteria during the load testing process.

In a recent announcement, Azure Load Testing has now became GA and in this blog, I will be giving a brief overview of using it along with first thoughts! Having used a number of Load testing suites throughout the years, I was very curious when Azure Load Testing was announced as a fully-managed Azure service! … Read more

Deploy Container App and pull image from Azure Container Registry using Terraform and AzAPI

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High-Level Diagram (HLD) showing the architecture involving a Container App, Managed Identity, and Azure Container Registry (ACR). The diagram illustrates how the Container App is configured to pull container images from ACR. It also shows the Managed Identity linked to the Container App, enabling secure access to ACR and other Azure resources.

In this blog I am going to show how to deploy Container App and pull an image from Azure Container Registry using user assigned managed identity for authentication. I will be achieving this using Terraform and AzAPI. Image below shows a diagram of what I will be deploying; it shows container app accessing a container … Read more

Build and push Docker Image to Azure Container Registry using GitHub Action

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Screenshot of a GitHub Actions job for Docker build and push to Azure Container Registry (ACR), showing all stages as successful. The image highlights the workflow steps, including building the Docker image and pushing it to ACR, with green check marks indicating that each stage completed without errors.

In this blog post I am going to show how you can build and push Docker Images to Azure Container Registry (ACR) using a GitHub Action. Creating Azure Container Registry We will use Az CLI to create the Azure Container Registry, script below: A successful run of the above script will create a resource group … Read more

Building and deploying to an AKS cluster using Terraform and Azure DevOps with Kubernetes and Helm providers

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I have a few blogs now on deploying Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) with different scenarios, such as deploying AKS with Application Gateway Ingress, in this blog post I am going to be building and deploying to an AKS cluster using Terraform and Azure DevOps. You will also have noticed in the title, it references both … Read more

Creating multiple Azure postgresql server replicas using Terraform

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Using Terraform to create a postgresql server in Azure? There may be sometimes a requirement to create additional read-replicas of this server. In this blog, I am going to show how you can achieve this! I will be giving the option to create additional replicas with a variable addition (up to 5 replicas allowed currently … Read more

Using Aztfy to import existing Azure resources into Terraform

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Wanting to import existing Azure resources into Terraform? A recently announced tool called Terrafy will be something you will be certainly interested in! In this blog, I will have a look at using Aztfy and its configuration to both import Azure resources into terraform state locally and also directly to an Azure Storage Account. “A … Read more

Create a PostgreSQL single server read replica in Azure using Terraform

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Screenshot from the Azure Portal showing an Azure PostgreSQL Single Server with one read replica. The image highlights both the primary server and the read replica, indicating their statuses and replication details.

Deploying PostgreSQL single server in Terraform and wanting to create a read replica? In this blog post I will show you how, it is rather straight-forward to setup with Terraform. Lets begin by looking at the terraform to create PostgreSQL single server; will follow on with showing how to add read-replica with terraform. Terraform for … Read more

Deploying multiple Container Apps in Azure using Terraform and AzAPI

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Screenshot from the Azure Portal displaying Container Apps and a Log Analytics workspace. The image highlights the list of Container Apps alongside the Log Analytics workspace, showing their names and statuses.

In this blog post I am going to show you can deploy multiple Container Apps in Azure using Terraform and AzAPI. You may be wondering what is AzAPI? Some times with new resource updates, the terraform AzureRM provider is not up to date or missing a piece of functionality within a particular resource. With this … Read more

azure application gateway data for certificate is invalid error fix

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A quick blog post to show a fix for when you get the error data for certificate is invalid error when applying backend settings within Azure Application Gateway. Within the Azure Activity log, you may come across this error: Reviewing the backend settings in the Application Gateway, we can see the snippet: For end-to-end SSL … Read more

Using variables to dynamically check out a repository using a specific branch or tag in Azure DevOps Pipelines

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In Azure DevOps pipeline, you might want to check out a repository using a specific branch or tag, in this blog post – I am going to show how you can use variables to dynamically achieve this! Why dynamic? My thought on creating pipelines is that I usually want it to be as dynamic as … Read more