How to Secure Your Terraform State File in Azure

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”

How to authenticate with Fortify Security with PowerShell

Fortify, a security scanning tool for code, has some great features but also some limiting features. Therefore I sought to use their open REST API to expand on its functionality to enhance how we are using it within the DevOps pipeline. This was of course step one to find how to authenticate with Fortify toContinueContinue reading “How to authenticate with Fortify Security with PowerShell”

Resharper DotCover Analyse for Visual Studio Team Services

Do you use Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) for Builds and/or Releases? Do you use Resharper DotCover? Do you want to use them together? Then boy do I have an extension for you!

That might be a corny introduction, but it is exactly what I have here.

When will hardware hit the wall

Hardware is becoming more and more amazing, but it is getting to that limit of, what can you do next. Most every update in hardware these days is new CPU, better RAM and better graphics. Only problem is CPU is so fast no one really notices or cares about faster. RAM is up to like 16GB to 32GB commercially, which for the generally user is more than perfect. Graphics are normally 1080p, but can go to 4K which is as good as the human eye can see.