Articles in this series
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...
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...
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...
In my previous post I looked at Static Code Analyses with two of the three tools I am going to use in this post. We are now going to look at Terrascan as our analyses tool and have it running from CI/CD platform Azure DevOps which will also host the ...
Static Code Analyses is a method of reviewing code against policies before deploying it, identifying weaknesses before they are live vulnerabilities in your environment. This is not new, tools for this purpose have been around for a while for develop...
Locating your Terraform state file remotely in an Azure Blob Storage shouldn't be as easy as creating a container and configuring the backend, you should consider some best practices. In this post I will outline practices I've used when securing and ...
