Terraform has become the standard for managing cloud infrastructure, and with good reason. It provides consistent, repeatable deployments and integrates with almost every cloud provider. But there’s one piece that’s often overlooked until it causes problems: the Terraform state file. Your terraform.tfstate file is more than just metadata — it’s the single source of truthContinueContinue reading “How to Secure Your Terraform State File in Azure”
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Integrate Azure DevOps Pipelines with Private GitHub Repos
In cloud-native engineering, securely connecting Azure DevOps pipelines to private GitHub repositories is essential — especially when working with Terraform modules that define your infrastructure. This guide walks through how to establish that connection using PowerShell Core, ensuring a secure and maintainable setup. 🛠️ Prerequisites Before you begin, make sure you have: An Azure DevOps organisation andContinueContinue reading “Integrate Azure DevOps Pipelines with Private GitHub Repos”
Managing Azure API Versions Dynamically Using Terraform
When developing APIs for consumption from many callers you can’t just throw in new major or minor updates without impacting how they are calling the API. Doing this can cause major issues so you would normally develop APIs in things like Azure Web Applications with versioning. The callers of the APIs can then reference theseContinueContinue reading “Managing Azure API Versions Dynamically Using Terraform”
Validating Azure APIM in CI: A Practical Approach to Safe API Deployments
When deploying any code you want to validate it as much as you can before deploying. However with APIs in the APIM you can’t validate the XML Policy or the API logic until it is deployed into the API Management Service (APIM). This means you are limited to the options to validate the code, beforeContinueContinue reading “Validating Azure APIM in CI: A Practical Approach to Safe API Deployments”
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 toContinueContinue reading “Manage Complex Terraform Lists and Maps in a CSV Format”
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, maintainContinueContinue 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 methodContinueContinue reading “Azure DevOps REST API: Add Users and Set Administrators Easily”
Setup Certbot for Azure Virtual Machines
Certbot is a method of automating the renewal of Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME protocol) SSL certificates and can be a handy tool to install on your Azure Virtual Machines. However, currently as of writing this there is a little snag with the Azure plugin for Certbot, as it is not yet been merged intoContinueContinue reading “Setup Certbot for Azure Virtual Machines”
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