Sleep Easy: Is Your Terraform State File Securely Backed Up?

Introduction So, you are working with terraform, paving your way to the cloud line by line, storing your terraform state file on an Azure Storage Account and feeling pretty good about yourself. When suddenly it dawns upon you that this file (or files) is getting pretty darn important. And if something happens to it, you … Continue reading Sleep Easy: Is Your Terraform State File Securely Backed Up?

Code as Code – Managing Azure Automation with Terraform

Introduction Azure Automation is a robust tool that provides administrators with the ability to execute tasks either on Azure or on-premises (through a hybrid worker). If you're familiar with Azure Automation, you've likely configured a lot of settings, including runbooks, schedules, RBAC permissions, variables and PowerShell modules. In certain organizations, these configurations can amount to … Continue reading Code as Code – Managing Azure Automation with Terraform

Getting Started with Terraform on Azure DevOps

Introduction As with most things, there are a number of ways to utilize Azure DevOps to orchestrate your management of Azure Resources through terraform. This post will walk through a way that I have found to be successful and relatively easy to maintain. It will not however describe the many benefits of using an Infrastructure … Continue reading Getting Started with Terraform on Azure DevOps