In this episode I’m going to be looking at refining our pipeline code by adding formatting checks and putting some of our more sensitive variables into and Azure DevOps library. If you’ve been with me on the whole journey you now should have a relatively good understanding of the structure of pipelines, and be able to use them to deploy resources into Azure using basic Terraform code.
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Terraform for Azure: Basics (5)
This fifth episode in our series of posts dealing with the basics of HashiCorp Terraform for Azure is going to be a bit shorter than usual. I felt we needed a little breather after the last epic that we had to work through. I’m going to discuss how to lock down the Terraform state storage account and manipulate its firewall while we perform DevOps operations.
Terraform for Azure: Basics (4)
For the fourth post in this series on the basics of Terraform for Microsoft Azure using Azure DevOps and Visual Studio Code, I’m going to be covering the slightly more complex issues of governance and security, along with a bit of automation using triggers. You’ll learn how to stage your pipelines and create code branches…
Terraform for Azure: Basics (3)
This is the third post in a series dealing with the basics of Terraform for Microsoft Azure using Azure DevOps. This post will work through the process of creating a build pipeline and deploying a simple resource.
Terraform for Azure: Basics (2)
Repositories and Pipelines
If you’re following this series on the basics of Terraform for Azure, this is the second post and it deals with repositories (repos) and pipelines. Just to reiterate, this series is designed as a memory aid for myself, and hopefully it can help others at the same time.
Enhance your Active Directory PowerShell
I really like the PowerShell for Active Directory, that you find in Windows Server 2008 and above. I cut my teeth on PowerShell with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, and love the ability to script almost everything – even if the script is just a bunch of repeated commands against a list in Excel, that’s copied… Continue reading Enhance your Active Directory PowerShell
RDP to Windows Server 2012 from Windows XP
I came across an annoying little issue today. Whether it be down to the default settings of Windows Server 2012, or one of the hardening settings of our corporate build, I don’t know, but it’s annoying either way. My corporate provided laptop operating system is mandated at Windows XP. I regularly (90+% of every day)… Continue reading RDP to Windows Server 2012 from Windows XP
USB thumb / flash drives and Microsoft Windows
A quick technical post! Occasionally, I’m called upon to deal with minor issues for users of USB thumb drives, and I thought I’d pull together a few little tips and tricks here which help me get things sorted.
How to make yourself sad…
To begin, spend at least a week creating documentation for a procedure to install a complex messaging solution based on Microsoft Exchange 2010. Don’t bother saving it to a server or somewhere that’s backed up – it’s still just a work in progress. Save it to a nice folder on your computer desktop instead.
Netdom on Windows Server 2008 R2
Yay, it’s time for another technical post! I manage and am responsible for Active Directory for a number of customers, both public and private sector. Rather than searching my documentation to find the FSMO role holders, it’s easier to log on to a server and run “netdom query fsmo” in a command prompt.