Here is a little script to help compare version numbers in the format X.X.X using bash/shell. This can be good if you are trying to find out which version is higher for something like an upgrade. versionlte() { [ “$1” = “`echo -e “$1\n$2″ | sort -V | head -n1`” ] } versionlt() { [ContinueContinue reading “Bash compare version numbers”
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Terraform plan output to JSON
The Terraform CLI currently doesn’t output the plan to a human readable file when running the plan command. It currently prints to the console in a readable format, at least within Azure DevOps, but the tfplan file outputted is not. This can be very unhelpful within a deployment pipeline when you save the output fileContinueContinue reading “Terraform plan output to JSON”
Automatic Change Checking on Pipeline Stages
Azure DevOps has the ability to add multiple stage approval styles like human intervention, Azure Monitoring and schedules. However, there is not the ability to value if a source has changed before triggering a Stage. This can be done on the Pipeline level, but not the Stage level where it can be helpful to haveContinueContinue reading “Automatic Change Checking on Pipeline Stages”
Merge Azure DevOps Pipeline Templates
As mentioned in my previous post about Azure DevOps Local Pipeline Testing, the available method of testing with the Azure DevOps API doesn’t have the feature to merge the YAML Templates. Therefore, I have set out to try and solve this issue.. You can view the full PowerShell script on GitHub.(https://github.com/PureRandom/AzureDevOpsYamlMerge-ps) Please feel free toContinueContinue reading “Merge Azure DevOps Pipeline Templates”
Push Docker Image to ACR without Service Connection in Azure DevOps
If you are like me and using infrastructure as code to deploy your Azure Infrastructure then using the Azure DevOps Docker task doesn’t work. To use this task you need to know what your Azure Container Registry(ACR) is and have it configured to be able to push your docker images to the registry, but you don’t know that yet. Here I show how you can still use Azure DevOps to push your images to a dynamic ACR.
Terraform remote backend for cloud and local with Azure DevOps Terraform Task
When working with Terraform, you will do a lot of work/testing locally. Therefore, you do not want to store your state file in a remote storage, and instead just store it locally. However, when deploy you don’t want to then be converting the configuration at that point and can get messy working with Azure DevOps. This is a solution that works for both local development and production deployment with the Azure DevOps Terraform Task.
Authenticate Terraform with Azure CLI
Sometimes there are no error messages and they’re not helpful at all, but sometimes there are error message which are helpful for your debugging of the issues which are the best thing ever. Then again this is only helpful if the error message points you to the correct problem to fix. I stubbled across an issue recently when I could not add a Secret to an Azure Key Vault via Terraform, which the error message did not help at all.
Azure DevOps Pipeline Templates and External Repositories
Working with Azure DevOps you can use YAML to create the build and deployment pipelines. To make this easier and more repeatable you can also use something called templates. However, if you want to use them in multiple repositories you don’t want to repeat yourself. There is a method to get these shared as I will demo.
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