On October 19, 2020 I did a live stream together with Microsoft Azure MVP Martin Ehrnst to talk about Deployment Scripts in ARM templates. We talked about the need for deployment scripts for the “last mile configuration” and how they can be used to add some imperative magic to ARM template deployments.
Continue readingOn October 12, 2020 I did a live stream together with Microsoft Azure MVP Martin Ehrnst to talk about nested and linked ARM templates. We covered topics such as nesting, expression evaluation handling, multi-scoping and decomposing strategies. And we quickly mentioned something that is coming soon from the Microsoft bakery: Tempalte specs.
Continue readingOn October 4, 2020 I did a live stream together with Microsoft Azure MVP Martin Ehrnst to talk about more complex ARM templates. We covered topics such as parameters, variables, dependencies, functions, conditions and copy. And we gave a quick intro into Bicep, a new DSL that makes ARM templates authoring easier.
Continue readingSome days ago I did a live stream to talk about infrastructure-as-code and ARM templates basics. The goal was to give beginners a quick introduction why infrastructure-as-code makes sense and how very basic ARM templates work.
Continue readingSome days ago I did a live stream to talk about infrastructure-as-code and Terraform basics. The goal was to give beginners a quick introduction why infrastructure-as-code makes sense and how Terraform works in it’s very basics.
Continue readingA while ago I announced a new infrastructure-as-code live stream. The idea was to give interested persons a kickstart how to use common tools and procedures they can use on Azure, either with ARM templates or Terraform. The poll results were pretty close and so I decided to run two live streams – one for each topic.
In 2019, Hashicorp announced their very own Terraform Cloud. It allows you to manage state remotely, allows the remote execution of plan, apply and destroy tasks and supports integration with common version control systems to manage your code (and some more features). In this post I will demonstrate the basic setup of the Terraform Cloud for a flexible scenario with two workspaces that are totally managed remotely. Continue reading
Some days ago I wrote an article how one can bring existing resources under Terraform management. While this is a valid scenario, the opposite could also be needed. This blog post demonstrates several methods how one can release existing resources from Terraform management – maybe to bring them under control of some other tool.
In a perfect world, an application with all of its components is provisioned and managed as code from the very beginning. But unfortunately that is not always the reality. Some companies start to provision services manually before they find out this might not be a good thing for the long run. Others start with one tool, only to find out that they feel more comfortable with another tool – and want to change it. If you are using Hashicorp’s Terraform to manage your infrastructure, you can bring existing resources that have been provisioned outside of Terraform under its control. Read on to find out how.
July 1 is an important day for the worldwide Microsoft community. On that day, Microsoft awards new and renews existing Microsoft MVPs. I am more than happy to have been renewed for another year in the “Microsoft Azure” category.
