Category Archives: DevOps

Integrate Azure DevOps with Teams

Posted on 02/08/2019 by Marcel Zehner

I use Azure DevOps a lot when it comes to customer projects, mainly for infrastructure as code deployments. Azure DevOps supports a variety of service hooks that allows to interact with various other services. Microsoft Teams is one of these … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure, DevOps | Tagged azure, DevOps, hook, infrastructure as code, release, release management, service hook, teams | Leave a comment

ARM Templates – Create multiple Instances by using ‘copy’

Posted on 21/07/2019 by Marcel Zehner

Creating multiple instances of Azure resources using copy. Continue reading →

Posted in Azure, DevOps | Tagged ARM, arm templates, copy, DevOps, IaC, iteration, multiply | 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 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

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

Auto-Deploy Container Images as Azure Container Instances (ACI)

Posted on 08/05/2018 by Marcel Zehner

Containers are pretty new in the Microsoft world, but are quickly getting traction. Microsoft Azure offers lots of container-related services such as Azure Container Instances (ACI), Azure Container Service (ACS), Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) or Azure Container Registry (ACR). I … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure, DevOps | Tagged aci, automation, azure container instances, container, docker, docker hub, hub, logic app, logicapp, trigger, webhook, workflow | 1 Comment

Building a simple release pipeline for ARM templates

Posted on 08/11/2017 by Marcel Zehner

Using release pipelines is a pretty common thing for agile developers, but not necessarily for IT Pros. However, they can still very much benefit from that process when working with their IT pro artefacts such as scripts, ARM templates, runbooks, … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure, DevOps | Tagged ARM, IaC, release pipeline, template, templates, visual studio, vsts | 1 Comment

Quick Overview: Azure Container Instances (Preview)

Posted on 16/10/2017 by Marcel Zehner

Windows containers are getting more and more popular. Azure already has multiple container-related features and more will be added in the near future. Today I quickly want to cover Azure Container Instances (ACI). This allows you to spin up containers … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure, DevOps | Tagged aci, azure, azure container instances, container, containers, docker, dockerhub, hub | 1 Comment