Microsoft Azure
Sometimes there is a need for a Dev Ops to run the same activity for a bunch of repositories. You can always have a script to go through folders (repos) but checkout them manually is not a pleasant job. Moreover, it may need some tasks to be done with a pipeline plugin, …
I haven’t work with the Terraform for a while and didn’t know about recent updates in Azure API released at the end of 2023. If you are like me, in short, this update allows you configure settings for Azure Storage sub-services separately. Private Endpoints, retention settings and diagnostic settings have to be …
I’ve been in an awkward situation once, when I was provisioning Azure resources using Terraform via Azure DevOps pipeline. Pipeline stuck with the provisioning and I cancelled the apply step. The state file got locked. As it is stored on Azure Blob Storage in a dedicated container and only the Service Principal …
These days Terraform is the infrastructure as a code standard (IaC). Terraform can be used with various platforms, while I am writing about Azure here. One can provision almost any resource in Azure by Terraform. Terraform is a great tool for a resource provisioning automation and a cornerstone for DevOps. HashiCorp develops …
This article guides you with the options you have for savings with Azure. There are some for different size environments and goals.
One day, I was playing with Chef test kitchen in Azure. There was only one option – to use azurerm driver. There was heaps of examples for Ubuntu or Windows server, but I needed SUSE. It is not a big deal to provision from Azure portal, but how can I do that with …
I was looking for options, what I can do in Azure to speed up (optimize) a stack of servers for one business application. They were built approximately 2 years ago, and some features were not available at that time. Good that machines running on quite fresh version of Linux that has a …
