Why Importing Matters in Infrastructure-as-Code
When adopting Terraform for existing cloud environments, you'll inevitably face a critical challenge: How to bring existing infrastructure under Terraform management? This is where resource importing becomes essential. Without proper imports, Terrafor…
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Mastering Terraform Import: Seamlessly Integrate Existing Azure Resources
GitHub Actions for executing remote SSH commands on Microsoft Windows
The provided code snippets demonstrate a robust CI/CD pipeline for deploying notepad++ using Ansible and GitHub Actions. This setup enables automated deployment of software applications on a Windows virtual machine (VM).
Key Components
Ansible Playbook: The playbook defines tasks for deploying N…
Deploying Azure ARM templates with Terraform and terraform templatefile example
This article is a revised article of Create CPU quota usage alerts for subscription using Azure ARM templates. Initially, I encountered a challenge while attempting to incorporate ARM variables or parameters into Kusto Query Language (KQL) within an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template. Despite t…
Deploying Azure ARM templates using Terraform
This article demonstrates how to deploy an Azure ARM template using Terraform. I encountered several scenarios where resources deployed through Terraform, Bicep, or the REST API didn't function as expected. However, when I deployed the same resources using an ARM template, they worked flawlessly.
…Azure resource group deployments with ARM JSON templates in Subscription with PowerShell
In this article, this example shows how to deploy resource group in Azure subscription. While deploying resource group with PowerShell you need to use New-AzSubscriptionDeployment cmdlet. Below is the output after deploying Resource Group in the subscription.
.\091-Complete_ARM_Template> # Crea…
Deploy CPU quota usage alerts for subscription using Terraform azapi provider
This is another way of deploying resources/services on Azure using azapi provider using HashiCorp Terraform.
AzAPI is a lightweight, flexible provider that leverages the Azure ARM REST APIs, empowering you to manage any Azure resource type with any desired API version. This enables access to the…
Configure CPU quota usage alerts for subscription using Azure Bicep templates
This article is a continuation of my previous post, where I deployed CPU quota usage alerts for a subscription using Azure ARM templates. In this post, I'll demonstrate how to deploy Action Groups and Subscription Quota Alerts for CPU usage using Bicep.
Compared to ARM templates, I find Bicep to …
Create CPU quota usage alerts for subscription using Azure ARM templates
This article is about Implementing of CPU Quota Usage Alert for Azure Subscription. As part of my recent assignment, I successfully created a CPU quota usage alert for an Azure subscription using Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates. The deployment enables real-time monitoring of CPU quota usage, …
GitHub repository integration with Terraform Cloud to Deploy and Manage Azure
Streamline your infrastructure as code (IaC) workflows by integrating your GitHub repository with HashiCorp Terraform Cloud (HCP). This powerful combination enables automatic execution of Terraform plans and applies based on changes made to your infrastructure code, ensuring that every update to you…
Azure OIDC OpenID Connect password less with GitHub Actions
This documentation describes in what way to organize GitHub Actions to authenticate with Microsoft Azure Entra ID using OpenID Connect (OIDC) for secure and automated deployments to Azure. This guide covers key ideas like credentials, federated identity, and customer-managed keys for data encryptio…
Part 4.2 GitHub Actions manage Microsoft Azure Cloud with az CLI
In this article, I will guide through the procedure of securely keeping Azure credentials in GitHub Actions Repository Secrets and using them to authenticate with Azure CLI commands. This enables the execution of GitHub Actions workflows, automating various tasks and deployments in Azure. By storing…
Part 4.1 GitHub Actions deploy azure resources with PowerShell
After successfully configuring and setting up Azure and Terraform in GitHub Actions, I embarked on a Proof of Concept (POC) to automate PowerShell scripts (Azure az module) using GitHub Actions. I meticulously automated all the job steps using PowerShell, with a primary focus on utilizing credential…
Part 4 GitHub Actions deploy azure resources with Terraform backend
In this section, I'm leveraging the azurerm backend to keep the Terraform state (tfstate) file in an Azure Storage Account. This will make sure that the Terraform state is centralized and consistent across different environments and team members. Every time I push changes to my Terraform configurat…
Part 3 Automating and Planning Azure Resources with Terraform and GitHub Actions
GitHub Actions is a CI/CD tool that automates tasks and workflows within your repository. It lets you to create custom workflows, trigger actions, and keep sensitive information securely. Common use cases include automating testing, deployment, and code quality checks. You can also use GitHub Actio…
Part 2 Terraform modules using a github.com repository as a source
In this article, I will guide you through the process of configuring a Terraform module hosted on GitHub.com as a source for the use inside Terraform module projects. In my previous blog (Part 1), I demonstrated how to set up a GitHub.com repository and branch using HashiCorp Terraform code.
To S…
Terraform using for loop in attribute value without for_each
In this Terraform example, I explored two approaches to working with map variables. Firstly, I used a for loop to iterate over the key-value pairs in the address_prefixes map, extracting the prefix values and enclosing the loop within square brackets [] to generate list from map.
Alternatively, …
Terraform for_each for loop list of object without count example
While working with Terraform, I needed to deploy resources without relying on the count meta-argument. My variable was a list of objects, but using count resulted in index numbers being appended to the resource names. To avoid this, I opted to use the for_each argument to iterate over the list of ob…
Terraform workspace with example
In the Hashicorp Terraform there is a feature called Terraform workspace that permits you to achieve multiple, isolated infrastructure environments within a single Terraform configuration. A workspace is fundamentally a way to isolate your infrastructure configurations into different environments, s…
Terraform convert single string to list or set
Below are the few examples of Terraform on to converting single string to array of list or set. This code I was wanted in my one of my Azure automation task. In this example I have defined a variable justice_leage with same default value..
For conversion, In the first scenario I can use split() …
Terraform variable multiple validation advanced blocks example
In my previous article on configuring a Terraform module for an Azure Function App with a private endpoint and a storage account, I shown a section within the application_stack block where I needed to implement function apps stacks. Here in this article I focusing on advanced variable validation for…
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