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 (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.

Terraform for Azure: Basics (1)

Introduction and Prerequisites

I’ve been architecting Microsoft Azure platforms for a good few years now, and whilst I’ve been fully aware of the benefits of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), I’m not a developer (back in the 1980s I used to copy code from magazines into my Sinclair ZX81, but that’s about it), and any deployments I’ve done myself have been via the portal.

Garage Clearout

Brinkmann Smoker

Hi there, We’re having a bit of a garage clearout at the minute, and we’re putting a bunch of stuff we no longer need on eBay over the next few weeks. Please visit our accounts here and here, to see if you can pick up a bargain. Things we’re selling are a couple of mountain… Continue reading Garage Clearout

Free parking *may* help to keep our town centre alive

News

This past weekend, I submitted my first letter to the editor of our local newspaper, “The Rotherham Advertiser“. I’m not sure if it will be published, but the text is: Give us free parking, and we will come. Reading the yourletters@ pages over the last few weeks, I’ve been seeing more and more references to… Continue reading Free parking *may* help to keep our town centre alive

HP Spectre x360 13″ OLED review

Spectre x360 in tablet mode

Almost perfect for me, just a couple of minor compromises I bought this convertible laptop after my previous purchase of a Dell XPS 13 9350 died and had to be returned to the manufacturer. This laptop had the slight compromise of no USB type-C port, and only 8GB of RAM, rather than 16, but had… Continue reading HP Spectre x360 13″ OLED review

The Holidog ‘Happy Box’; free automatic renewals and poor customer care come as standard

Holidog have been streaming a torrent of direct marketing towards me since I registered with the site a couple of years ago just to get a feel for the service.  These emails continue sometimes daily despite me having never used the site either as a pet sitter, or for pet sitting services.  However, when they… Continue reading The Holidog ‘Happy Box’; free automatic renewals and poor customer care come as standard