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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 toContinue reading "Progressive Learning in Coding: The Elevator Approach"

Manage Complex Terraform Lists and Maps in a CSV Format

When developing some resource in Terraform you develop a large complex map or list of entries. This can become hard to manage, difficult to read and worst to maintain. An easier method is to convert these items into a Comma Separated Values (CSV) file. This will condense something that could be 100's of lines down toContinue reading "Manage Complex Terraform Lists and Maps in a CSV Format"

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 productContinue reading "Understanding Databricks RBAC: Grants, Permissions, and Entitlements"

Automating Azure PIM Requests with PowerShell

Privileged Identity Management (PIM) is made to be a secure authentication method to assign user permissions via groups and monitor the access. This enables short time requests for the permissions that can require fields like reason for access, how long to have access and who is having access. This can typically be used for engineers’Continue reading "Automating Azure PIM Requests with PowerShell"

Best Practices for Terraform Module Testing and Validation

Terraform Modules are great for isolated components you can reuse and plug-in to your main Infrastructure as Core code base. They can then also be shared and used by multiple other teams at the same time to reduce repeated code, complexity and increase compliance. However, as they are isolated, they are harder to test, maintainContinue reading "Best Practices for Terraform Module Testing and Validation"

Azure DevOps REST API: Add Users and Set Administrators Easily

When using the Azure DevOps REST API to create Teams and add users, you may want to set the administrators as well at the same time. However, this REST API is not well documented on the Microsoft documentation site for the REST API. With some searching and mapping of resources, I have below the methodContinue reading "Azure DevOps REST API: Add Users and Set Administrators Easily"

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. IContinue reading "Shared Azure API Management Service Design"