So Terraform 0.12 was just released. I sat down this morning to have a quick play with it. I strongly recommend following the upgrade guide and make a separate branch of your TF files before testing 0.12. After getting everything setup and ready to test I ran a plan and apply using Terraform 0.11.14 and … Continue reading Terraform 0.12
Deallocate Azure VMs with Azure Devops – Scheduled VM shutdown.
Having been inspired by Gregor Suttie's post 'Replacing Azure Automation using Azure CLI and Azure Devops' I decided to do something similar with Powershell. My requirement was to power off VMs with a certain tag and value at a certain time. The PowerShell for this is fairly simple: Get-AzVM | Where-Object {$_.tags['shutDown'] -eq "19:00"} | Stop-AZVM … Continue reading Deallocate Azure VMs with Azure Devops – Scheduled VM shutdown.
Combining Terraform with Azure Devops
Really short and straight to the point post. 😀 I use the 'Terraform Tasks for Azure DevOps' extensions which makes using Terraform with Azure Devops an absolute breeze I have a build pipleline which initiates the remote storage for the Terraform state file, perfoms the Terraform init and the Terraform plan, all relevant files are … Continue reading Combining Terraform with Azure Devops
Azure Security Center & log Analytics Workspaces
Azure Security Center is a good thing to have as part of your Azure resources and it comes in two tiers: Free or Standard. By default it is enabled in your Azure subscription at the free tier and changing that to standard unlocks additional features and comes with some costs . So you've upgraded Security … Continue reading Azure Security Center & log Analytics Workspaces
When life gets confusing – check your AzureRM module version
I had to enable disk encryption on some existing Azure VMs this morning but I kept hitting a snag even though I had done this before and was using the same powershell as before. Here's the PowerShell: $rgName = 'MySecureRg'; $vmName = 'MySecureVM'; $KeyVaultName = 'MySecureVault'; $KeyVault = Get-AzureRmKeyVault -VaultName $KeyVaultName -ResourceGroupName $rgname; $diskEncryptionKeyVaultUrl = … Continue reading When life gets confusing – check your AzureRM module version
Intro to using Terraform for Azure resource deployments
I've been increasingly using Terraform for my Infrastructure as Code deployments to Azure and I really like it and prefer it to using ARM templates. The thing I like most about Terraform is that it's simple to use yet very powerful in its capabilities. This post is not intended to be an in-depth introduction … Continue reading Intro to using Terraform for Azure resource deployments
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Studying for AZ-300
I've started studying for the AZ-300 exam and I'm playing with logic apps. I've created a logic app that monitors this blog and should email me when it detects a new post!! We'll see if it works 🙂 Update 11/01/2019 And it did work. My logic app sent me an email to let me know … Continue reading Studying for AZ-300
A Domain Controller is not a Domain Computer – Online memory of an Active Directory PFE
A Domain Controller is not a Domain Computer – Online memory of an Active Directory PFE — Read on blogs.technet.microsoft.com/389thoughts/2018/12/10/a-domain-controller-is-not-a-domain-computer/
Deploying Azure Infrastructure Resources with Azure Devops – Part 2
In part one we setup a project in Azure Devops, create an Azure repo, added an ARM template to the repo and created a build pipeline. In this post we'll create a release pipeline to actually deploy our resources in Azure. Within Azure Devops open our project and select 'Releases' and select 'New Pipeline' On … Continue reading Deploying Azure Infrastructure Resources with Azure Devops – Part 2
