Tag Archives: IaC

Visualize your ARM Templates in VS Code

Posted on 28/09/2019 by Marcel Zehner

My team works a lot with ARM Templates to deploy and maintain Azure-based applications and infrastructure. We normally develop ARM Templates using Visual Studio Code, then manage and release the code using Azure DevOps. Sometimes we hand over code to … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure, DevOps | Tagged ARM, arm templates, DevOps, extension, IaC, infrastructure as code, visual studio code, visualization, vs code, vs code extension | 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

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

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