2021-10

Limitations with Terraform and ADF Delimited texts

Hello! For some time now Microsoft have been investing pretty heavily into terraform, and I don’t mean financially; the AzureRM provider is very closely aligned with what you can do using ARM templates and other methods to create Azure resources. There will however always be an inevitable lag between what you can do with terraform. This is somewhat of an unpopular opinion to hold, because those that don’t agree with it have perhaps nailed their colours to the mast on terraform being the best tool ever.

2021-10-08

Run Terraform Locally and In Azure DevOps Pipeline

Hello! I’ve been working with Terraform on and off for about 3 years now. In fact I first heard about terraform way back in 2016, whilst I was busy cursing ARM templates and their verboseness. It was around this time that Microsoft and Terraform announced their working partnership (this was also around the time that Microsoft announced that they hearted Open Source). I’m not going to go into ARM template bashing though; all Infrastructure as Code solutions have their advantages and drawbacks.

2021-10-04

2020-12

Install Terraform 0.14 beta2 on AzDo Ubuntu Hosted Agent

Hello! The terraform 0.14 release includes a long awaited feature: the ability to mark input and output variables as sensitive. This is big news, and I want to try doing this ASAP. But as it is in beta I will have to install it on the ubuntu hosted agents, which come to find out is very straightforward: - task: CmdLine@2 inputs: script: | sudo apt-get install wget unzip -y sudo wget https://releases.

2020-12-02

2019-02

Running Pester Tests In Terraform

Over the last 6 months or so I’ve been using terraform to deploy infrastructure to Azure. Prior to using terraform I was using ARM Templates and publishing them using Azure PowerShell, again for about 6 months. So I reckon I’ve got a reasonable grasp on both technologies and their similarities/differences and their advantages/disadvantages. But one thing I have done for both is run Pester tests post-deploy to verify the deployment was correct.

2019-02-22

ARM Deployments and Nested Templates: A Real Hot Mess

Hello! (For this post I’m going to be referencing a project that I uploaded last week to GitHub. It creates some VM’s and installs the self-hosted integration runtime used by ADF activities. The last bit is not really relevant, but to get the most out of this post some experience with ARM and terraform would be handy. But you should be able to look at that project and follow it, hopefully!

2019-02-18