Tag Archives: Azure

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.

Azure REST API Scopes

When working with the Azure REST API you need to provide the scope in all API requests, so Azure knows where you are looking. However, throughout their documentation that although they ask for the scope they do not explain or link to an explanation of what a scope is and what the formats are. Therefore,ContinueContinue reading “Azure REST API Scopes”

Deleting Recovery Service Vault Backup Server (MABS)

This is one of them quick shares to try help the world of Azure developers just a little bit. While doing some Azure Development using the Microsoft Azure REST API, I got to a point to working in the Azure Recovery Service Vault. I was trying to delete a Back Up Server Agent using theContinueContinue reading “Deleting Recovery Service Vault Backup Server (MABS)”

How to get Azure Backup Protection Containers?

When working with the Azure REST API, I had the requirement to get the Recovery Service Vaults Backup Protection Containers. Naturally, like many, I went to the Microsoft Azure REST API documentation website to learn how to call this API, but when following it I hit a few issues that was not clear and notContinueContinue reading “How to get Azure Backup Protection Containers?”