by Russ McKendrick | Sep 21, 2021 | Azure, DevOps, Russ McKendrick
Terraform Azure Deployments I have just finished working on a few large Terraform Azure deployments and thought I would stick a few notes down in a blog post in the hope that they are useful to others. Azure Diagnostic Settings The... 
by Russ McKendrick | Sep 14, 2021 | Azure, DevOps, Russ McKendrick
Tracking Costs in Terraform Using Infracost In my last blog post I introduced a stage which executed Checkov to my Terraform Azure DevOps pipeline. This scanned the Terraform configuration and stopped the deployment if there was an issue. I also added a stage which... 
by Russ McKendrick | Jun 21, 2021 | Azure, DevOps, Russ McKendrick
Azure DevOps Terraform Pipeline with Checkov & Approvals It’s been just over a year since I first posted about the Azure DevOps Terraform Pipeline I used to use, I say used to use because that pipeline is now a little outdated. This post covers the updated... 
by Russ McKendrick | Apr 27, 2021 | Azure, DevOps, Russ McKendrick
Azure DevOps Multi-Stage Pipelines As I move into using Azure DevOps more and more, there is one thing which I really haven’t got on with and that is release pipelines. I didn’t like that I couldn’t easily define it as YAML like I could with build pipelines, even... 
by Russ McKendrick | Jun 9, 2020 | Ansible, Azure, DevOps, General, Russ McKendrick
Azure DevOps Ansible Pipeline I thought it was about time that I started to have a play with Azure DevOps a little more than I have been doing. One of the things I have always meant to look at in the past is using DevOps to run Ansible playbooks. However the Ansible... 
by Russ McKendrick | Apr 27, 2020 | Azure, DevOps, General, Russ McKendrick
Ansible and the Azure REST API Over the last few months I have been doing more and more work with Ansible to manage end-to-end deployments in Azure. For the most part Ansible’s core set of Azure modules work with no problems and more than do the job. However, with...
