Provisioning Azure infrastructure for a web app is easy to get working once.Getting it repeatable, secure, and boring across environments is where things get interesting. I wanted a pattern that: This post walks through the Terraform + Azure DevOps pattern I ended up with. No magic. Just lessons learned the hard way. The Problem Most […]
As the number of resources deployed into our Greenfield Azure tenant continues to rapidly grow, we always strive to be automated as much as possible. One question that kept coming up from developers was the topic of management like restarting app services. Back in the Brownfield days (or as I like to affectionately call it […]
I was having a conversation the other day with a PO (Product Owner) politely warning us about an avalanche of pending requests from various teams coming in for provisioning Azure resources and deploying code to meet new client commitments. Basic information is provided by the dev lead, and the PO will then manually create PBIs […]
We recently started a project to set up automated deployments of Azure resources using Azure DevOps pipelines. The first service we folded into ADO was an extremely high profile one for the business. It’s used by all the employees and contractors for capturing project capitalization and expense hours by asset and resource. After having successfully […]
I stumbled upon this issue while working on setting up DR for an internally written web app running in Azure. The solution is comprised of an app service plan, a web app, and backed by Azure SQL Database. It was really exciting to finally get a chance to be involved with a project like this […]
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