Building better platforms with Azure, GitHub, Terraform and AI
Application Gateway for Containers (AGFC) is a newer and improved version of the earlier Application Gateway Ingress Controller (AGIC), which you might be familiar with if you’ve used Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). This iteration advances Azure’s Application Load Balancing capabilities and adds a fresh offering to the Application Gateway product lineup. As I mentioned new … Read more
Using Open AI, you have probably came across prompt injections – Azure recently released a new service called AI Prompt Shields. In this blog post we will look at how you can deploy Azure AI Prompt Shield to mitigate against prompt injections – this will be deployed using Terraform with an example of mitigating. What … Read more
In this blog post we will look at how you would use tfvars to deploy to multiple environments in Azure. Deploying Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to multiple environments, we want to keep scalability in mind along with the thought of removing duplication when possible. Managing infrastructure configurations across different environments can be challenging, this is … Read more
In this blog post, I’ll show you on how to set up a content filtering configuration in Azure OpenAI Studio and apply it to your OpenAI deployment entirely using Terraform. Since there isn’t a native Terraform resource available for content filtering configurations, I will be using azapi_resource to assist with this. The content filtering system … Read more
In this blog post, we will look at enabling PostgreSQL flexible server logs and setting a retention period using Terraform. (Somewhat a new feature (was in Preview), the ability to enable server logs.) Deploying a sample server below, we can see within “Server Logs” that it currently isn’t enabled by default. Reviewing the linked learn.microsoft.com … Read more
Scaling Terraform Deployments with GitHub Actions: Essential Configurations, is part of the 90 Days of DevOps event that Michael Cade has been running, certainly check out the event for lots more awesome DevOps related contributions here What have I covered in this session? My session is a presentation & demo – that covers essential configurations … Read more
As with all pull requests, we want to run various CI checks to ensure validation of your code and one of these is code quality, writing Terraform? Unsure if the Terraform in the pull-request is formatted correctly? This is where GitHub Actions come in handy. In this post, we’ll explore how to ensure your Terraform code … Read more
In this blog post – we will displaying Terraform plans directly within Azure DevOps Repository Pull Requests as a comment using Azure DevOps Pipelines. Prerequisites Please read this blog post prior, it has some prerequisites that are required before this pipeline will work successfully. Ensure you have: Azure DevOps Pipeline The Azure DevOps pipeline is … Read more
Sometimes as part of your pull request process, you may want to include outputs, checks, or other relevant information as comments after your pipeline runs on various stages and tasks. In this blog post we will look and how this can be achieved using a bash task and Azure DevOps API Prerequisites I will be … Read more
A quick blog post to include the fix/what is needed to resolve steps.plan.outputs.* is empty when using GitHub Action hashicorp/setup-terraform@v3 I recently came across a situation while working with the hashicorp/setup-terraform@v3 GitHub Action. I wanted to make use of steps.plan.outputs.stdout to display the Terraform Plan, but I noticed that the output was consistently empty. Even … Read more