In the world of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), Azure DevOps agents are key resources. These agents are the compute resources that execute your pipeline whether it’s compiling code, running tests, or deploying applications. Without them, your DevOps pipelines are just scripts waiting to be run. Azure DevOps offers two types of agents: Microsoft-hostedContinueContinue reading “Choosing the Right Azure DevOps Agent Hosting Strategy in Azure”
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Progressive Learning in Coding: The Elevator Approach
Learning new skills can be hard and when working with complex technology like coding it can be confusing. Over the years as I have learnt more technologies, I have found an approach that has helped keep learning simple. This is something I was taught before when I first started and continue to pass on toContinueContinue reading “Progressive Learning in Coding: The Elevator Approach”
Understanding Databricks RBAC: Grants, Permissions, and Entitlements
Documentation on Databricks Grants, Permissions and Entitlement can get complex fast, especially switching between AWS, Azure and Databricks versions. When I was then looking into implementing the RBAC design for Databricks, I started looking into the different access approaches for groups. I found you needed to be a full functioning Data Engineer using this productContinueContinue reading “Understanding Databricks RBAC: Grants, Permissions, and Entitlements”
Shared Azure API Management Service Design
Azure API Management Services (APIM) are a powerful, flexible, and well-equipped product in Azure, but they are also expensive. There are reasons for this, and ways in general you can reduce the cost with SKUs, but another way is to share it with other products within your organisation instead of having a dedicated APIM. IContinueContinue reading “Shared Azure API Management Service Design”
Automatic ACME SSL Certificate Rotation
Technology needs to be secure, but we also want to make it easy to use. This is the same for us engineers managing SSL Certificates and their rotation. You can get long life certificates, but why when you can get free ones generated via the Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME protocol). This is normally dueContinueContinue reading “Automatic ACME SSL Certificate Rotation”
Connect Azure MySQL to Private Endpoint with Terraform
To connect an Azure MySQL Database, or other services in Azure, one of the most secure methods to do this is with a Private Endpoint. Microsoft document the architecture they recommend using an App Service connecting to a MySQL Server, which is good if you are using the Azure Portal, but there are some missingContinueContinue reading “Connect Azure MySQL to Private Endpoint with Terraform”
Create User on Azure MySQL Database with Terraform
After you create you Azure MySQL Server, you would like to create a Database, but for security you would like to have a new custom user added with permission. Unfortunately the Azure Providers do not provide this, so we need to use some other skills to get these users in. First we can go aheadContinueContinue reading “Create User on Azure MySQL Database with Terraform”
Unable to delete Azure Subnet due to Resources
With Azure Subnets there is an order to deleting the resources. You must disconnect the Virtual Network Subnets before deleting the resources, or you can’t delete the Subnet. This caused myself some issue, while using Terraform as I kicked a Destroy command and did it in the wrong order. However, I found a method onContinueContinue reading “Unable to delete Azure Subnet due to Resources”
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