Using Terraform from an Azure DevOps pipeline
There’s a lab out there showing how to use Terraform with Azure DevOps. I found it clunky. Here’s a similar take using YAML pipelines.
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Authenticating against the Azure Management REST APIs using the Fluent SDK
There’s a nice fluent sdk by Microsoft to help developers manage their Azure resources through code. To be clear, it’s not infrastructure as code. But, if you have a need where business logic and infrastructure meet, then you might have...
Creating and setting-up an AKS cluster through Terraform
In order to issue commands against a Kubernetes cluster, you need the kubernetes provider and establish a connection. In many cases, you can specify a kubeconfig file from Terraform. But what if your cluster is ephemeral? What if you want...
Deploying an AKS cluster through Terraform Cloud
There’s already a nice guide by Microsoft on how to provision an AKS cluster using Terraform. It uses the Azure Storage backend provider for storing the Terraform data. What if you want to use Terraform Cloud instead? Terraform Cloud also...
Terraform over ARM templates
I work strictly on Azure. I don’t use other cloud providers except when I’m helping clients move away from AWS. For many years, I’ve used ARM templates as the Infrastructure as Code tool of choice. They’re powerful and they do...