Category Archives: Azure

Azure Management Group IDs

Posted on 02/07/2019 by Marcel Zehner

Sometimes you need to target a management group id, e.g. when you import a policy definition and want to select a management group as the policy definition scope. I discovered that sometimes people struggle with this procedure when using the … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure | Tagged azure, group, guid, hierarchy, id, mag, management, managementgroup, root | Leave a comment

Using Terraform Cloud Remote State Management – a quick introduction

Posted on 28/05/2019 by Marcel Zehner

Some days ago Hashicorp announced the availability of the free-to-use collaboration features in the Terraform cloud. This allows individuals and teams to easily store state information in the cloud and make it accessible from anywhere.

Posted in Azure, DevOps | Tagged azure, cloud, hashicorp, IaC, infrastructure as code, remote state, state, terraform | 1 Comment

Azure Resource Tags in JSON Format

Posted on 16/03/2019 by Marcel Zehner

This is a quick one: We all know that using Azure Resource Tags is a key element in a company’s governance strategy. Tags are used on resources to ensure you stay in control (e.g. to set an owner, department or … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure | Tagged azure, azure governance, azure management, Control, governance, json, tags | 2 Comments

Issues with creating new Cosmos DB documents with Logic App

Posted on 05/02/2019 by Marcel Zehner

Recently I had to build a solution for a customer. One part was to create order documents in a Cosmos DB using a Logic App. Sounds easy, however, I struggled a bit because of a simple thing and thought that … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure | Tagged automation, cosmos, documents, logic app, logicapp, partition, partition key, sql api | 18 Comments

Azure Resource Graph Introduction

Posted on 10/01/2019 by Marcel Zehner

The most important part of Azure governance is to keep control of your Azure resources while not loosing agility and speed. There are several tools, procedures and services that assist you getting in control of your Azure resources. One I … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure | Tagged azure, Control, govern, governance, graph, graph explorer, resource management, resources, speed, transparency, transparent, visualization | 3 Comments

Azure Blueprints – Overview

Posted on 04/10/2018 by Marcel Zehner

Azure Blueprints were announced during Microsoft Ignite 2018. I had the privilege to already get access some months earlier and played with the new feature/service to gain some experience. In this blog post I want to give you a quick … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure, DevOps | Tagged azure, blueprint, compliance, Control, govern, governance, policies, policy | Leave a comment

Azure Monitor for VMs

Posted on 27/09/2018 by Marcel Zehner

During Microsoft Ignite 2018, a new feature went to public preview: Azure Monitor for VMs. As the feature name mentions, it’s about monitoring virtual machines and tightly integrate those into Azure Monitor. This blog post gives you some first insights.

Posted in Azure | Tagged Alert, alerting, Alerts, analytics, azure monitor, health, insights, monitor, monitoring, state | Leave a comment

Terraform – using multiple files for configurations and variables

Posted on 22/05/2018 by Marcel Zehner

Welcome back to the third post of the Terraform series. In this post I will cover, how Terraform can merge multiple configuration and variables files into one. This gives you better transparency, flexibility and control for your Terraform-based deployments. Enjoy!

Posted in Azure, DevOps | Tagged azure, IaC, infrastructure as code, multiple files, terraform, variables | 4 Comments

Terraform – introducing input variables

Posted on 19/05/2018 by Marcel Zehner

In my last Terraform post I talked a little bit about the basics what Terraform is and how it works from ground up. In this post I want to focus on input variables and how they can be used to … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure, DevOps | Tagged declarative, descriptive, IaC, infrastructure as code, input, terraform, tf, variables | 2 Comments

Terraform – a first introduction

Posted on 14/05/2018 by Marcel Zehner

Infrastructure as code is very popular for some time already. When talking about deploying infrastructure or application components to Microsoft Azure as code, then the Azure Resource Manager (ARM) will come to your attention. ARM manages resources that live in … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure, DevOps | Tagged ARM, arm templates, hashicorp, HCL, IaC, infrastructure as code, terraform, tf | 2 Comments