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Introduction I have previously mentioned Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY). That matters when writing good, maintainable code for applications - and also in DevOps pipelines when we build infrastructure automation targeting multiple environments. It can be...
Public network access Many Azure resources connect via public network - whether to public endpoints on other Azure resources, or to APIs and other public endpoints elsewhere on the internet. Azure has many public IP addresses available for use by res...
NOTE: I built a complete, end-to-end implementation (ARM templates, bash scripts, GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines, additional technical detail) to accompany this post. You can find it at https://github.com/plzm/azure-vm-disk-swap/. Gloomy Preamble Th...
This post is about deploying Azure Linux Virtual Machines (VMs) in GitHub Actions Continuous Deployment (CD) workflows, and how to do post-deployment VM configuration when "out of box" Azure VM capabilities aren't available. Virtual Machine images, a...
This is a quick post on working with object parameters in ARM templates. ARM templates have different parameter types: string, int, bool, object, and so on. Parameters have various attributes: their type, some metadata, and a default value. The defau...
As part of some Azure work I did recently (and which will inform some upcoming blog posts) I had to work with environment variables both in a local dev environment as well as in GitHub Actions across workflow steps. This post is about how I did this ...
Introduction Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates are declarative infrastructure automation artifacts, formatted as JSON and used to repeatably deploy Azure services and resources in scripts, applications, or CI/CD pipelines. ARM templates can incl...
There are several versions of the Azure command-line utility, azcopy. The latest (as of this writing) is v10. If you’re on Linux, getting azcopy v10 installed and adding it to your system’s command-line completion is undocumented (for now) in the abo...
Has this happened to you? – “We need a copy of production data”– “Why?”– “For {staging | testing | baselining | repro-ing | exploring big data on Azure | doing my job }”– “No.” Getting data can be done by taking a snapshot or copy of production data ...
