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Azure Back to School Event with Peter De Tender

Sep 21, 20211 min read

I and Peter De Tender collaborated together to produce a video on the use of Azure DevOps auditing streams with services such as Event Grid, Azure Monitor Logs and Splunk. This was part of the Azure Back to School event being held across the whole of...

Azure Back to School Event with Peter De Tender

Terraform: Remove Resource from a Remote State in Azure Storage Account

Aug 30, 20213 min read

Have you been in the situation where cleaning up your Infrastructure as Code (powered by HashiCorp Terraform) to delete deprecated resources resulted in the Terraform apply taking longer than expected? Maybe this is what you are seeing: azurerm_backu...

Terraform: Remove Resource from a Remote State in Azure Storage Account

Azure DevOps: Terraform variables with Azure Key Vault

Aug 9, 20213 min read

We use variables when creating Terraform configuration files to be able to change and adapt our code to be reusable. When configuring variables, the best method for me was selecting a single location for both sensitive (secrets) and non-sensitive (re...

Azure DevOps: Terraform variables with Azure Key Vault

Terraform: Azure Beginners Poster

Aug 3, 20211 min read

I've created a simple poster on getting started using Terraform with Azure. This is aimed at beginners who are starting out on their Infrastructure as Code (IaC) journey or for those who need a reminder on the steps. The steps are based on running th...

Terraform: Azure Beginners Poster

Azure Update Management

Jun 7, 20213 min read

An Azure Automation Account has a feature called Update Management that can manage your Windows and Linux Operating System (OS) updates for Azure, On-Premise and other third party Cloud environments. In this post I will explain what Update Management...

Azure Update Management

AZ Community Roundtable Ep.01 - Lessons Learnt

Jun 2, 20214 min read

The first AZ Community Roundtable show I hosted is over. I had guest speakers Chris Reddington and Martin Therkelsen introduce themselves, I discussed Microsoft Build news on App Services adopting Cloud Native approach using Kubernetes so it can be u...

AZ Community Roundtable Ep.01 - Lessons Learnt