Shifting FinOps left Not too long ago, I discovered an open source project on GitHub called InfraCost. It aims to help cloud teams shift left FinOps by helping provide Terraform Azure cost estimations, into Pull Request comments within GitHub/Azure DevOps, including a fancy VS Code extension. And whilst I was excited to try it out, …
What is APIOps? APIOps is the process of applying DevOps to the Azure API Management (APIM) service. By applying this concept to APIM, you can bring your APIs into version control, and most of the operations that were once done in the Azure Portal can now be achieved through code using CI/CD pipelines with APIOps. The benefits of this method of working …
Introduction – continuous deployment with Azure Bicep Continuous deployment with Azure Bicep using Azure DevOps provides a streamlined approach to deploying your resources. This method leverages Infrastructure as Code, harnessing the power of Azure DevOps tools such as source control, Azure Pipelines, and Azure Artifacts, all while maintaining environment control and auditing. In this article, …
Introduction I’ve been dabbling into the world of Pester as of late to beef some unit tests with Azure Bicep modules. I thought it would be great if I can enhance the continuous integration pipeline in Azure DevOps for my Azure Bicep repository. With this, I thought I’d share this solution I came up with …
Introduction If you’re trying to deploy Azure SQL Managed Instance in Azure via Azure Bicep you may have stumbled across this ‘Network Intent Policy’ error when trying to redeploy your Azure Bicep template. The problem doesn’t present itself on your first deployment yet when trying your template again this error is present. It seems if …
This is my first time getting involved with a great initiative called Azure Spring Clean by Thomas Thornton & Joe Carlyle – which I’m excited to be apart of! For those unaware, the event promotes and encourages well managed Azure tenants. This is done yearly in March where across 5 days there are 5 different …
Here’s my top 5 Azure Bicep tips & tricks to get you started! Be sure to have the VSCode extension installed. If you’re interested in checking out some real world examples for Bicep please checkout my GitHub project Bicepify where I break down concepts into friendlier learning chunks. I update the repository frequently so be …
Introduction Azure Front Door Premium allows Private Link connections to Azure PaaS services such as Azure Storage, App services and even AKS/Azure Container Apps. Private Endpoints allow us to securely send traffic via the Azure backbone network with Microsoft directly to your virtual network without leaving and going via the internet. In this post I’ll …
Introduction Shared variable file patterns with Azure Bicep, what is it and what does it mean? How can you benefit from this? What problems can it solve? Without regurgitating too much from the Microsoft Docs on this at a high-level it’s a great way to utilise a JSON file to put common variables you want …
