Compare to some other cloud providers, creating an identity via code in GCP is a little fragmented if your using GSuite for your identity storage. The Google Cloud Platform holds your users identity reference and permission, while the other system GSuite hold the security of the users authentication. This can also make the documentation feelContinue reading "Create Identity in Google Cloud Platform and GSuite"
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.
Where to find Azure Tenant ID in Azure Portal?
Some of the documentation about Azure from Microsoft can be confusing and missing, including one I get ask 'Where is the Tenant ID'. Below I give 3 locations, which there is probably, on where to find the Tenant ID in the portal. I have also added how to get the Tenant ID with the Azure CLI.
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.
Use Terraform to connect ACR with Azure Web App
You can connect an Azure Web App to Docker Hub, Private Repository and also an Azure Container Registry(ACR). Using Terraform you can take it a step further and build your whole infrastructure environment at the same time as connecting these container registries. However, how do you connect them together in Terraform?
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.
Is Home Working the New Normal?
Change was always coming for people to be working from home and not from company offices, but it looks like the Covid-19 events have forced this change to be pushed my faster. While some companies are struggling to get working practices in place, some are working with this very well and finding that this mightContinue reading "Is Home Working the New Normal?"
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