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I start planning for the following year in the last two weeks of December. I use Azure DevOps to track my work -break down goals into features, and features into user stories, which I map into sprints. Creating iterations and adding them to projects is something that anyone can automate. Last year I used the … Continue reading Automate Azure Boards iteration using PowerShell and Azure Pipelines
Over the last couple of months, I worked extensively on Amazon Managed Grafana to create dashboards for observability. In the course of automating the deployment using Terraform and a CI-CD system, I learned about a few challenges and identified solutions. I'm sharing my learnings in this note so that you do not make the same … Continue reading A detailed guide to securely integrating Amazon Managed Grafana with Terraform
Recently I came across a use case where I was required to create Grafana dashboards using the Terraform Grafana provider. Although it did not sound too complex, it soon became once I started automating the process using Azure Pipelines. In this note, I documented the challenge and the solution. Before diving deeper, an Amazon Managed … Continue reading Create an Amazon Managed Grafana dashboard using Terraform and Azure Pipelines
In this note, I describe the steps to provision a new Amazon Managed Grafana workspace using the AWS Terraform provider. Grafana is an open-source observability tool to visualize data. It provides charts, graphs, and alerts for the web when connected to supported data sources. Per AWS-Docs, Amazon Managed Grafana is a fully managed and secure … Continue reading Create an Amazon Managed Grafana workspace using Terraform
Often while working on automation, I am required to interact with AWS cloud resources. For example, when using my laptop, I use the AWS CLI; I have the latest version installed. However, I prefer AWS Tools for Powershell if I automate the process into a build pipeline. If you are new to AWS Tools for … Continue reading Install and use AWS tools for PowerShell on Azure DevOps Pipelines YAML
A highly available application has higher chances of attracting customers because they are assured of consistency in service. Load balancing is a cost-effective way to increase an application's availability. In this note, I describe the steps to add an application load balancer to three EC2 instances hosted in three different availability zones in a region … Continue reading Add an application load balancer to AWS EC2 using Terraform
In this note, I detail all the steps required to create a bare-bone web server on AWS EC2. I discuss from creating the VPC, subnets, internet gateway, security group, and EC2 instances to finally automating the process via Terraform and user data. Note: I did not include the concepts of load balancing, installing a certificate, … Continue reading Create a web-server on AWS EC2 instance using Terraform and user data
When it comes to identifying a process to deliver continuous value to customers, CI-CD is the defacto standard. And container technology enables that by encapsulating an application and its dependencies into a package that can be hosted and scaled independently of other applications. So DevOps engineers and application developers merged these ideas to forge a … Continue reading Push Docker images to Amazon ECR using YAML based Azure Pipelines
Quite often, I use secure variables in Azure Pipelines. However, though I want to use them, I do not intend on sharing the values of the variables in the code or logs due to security. Hence I required a variable store that was secure and, at the same time, easily accessible by Azure Pipelines. I … Continue reading Manage secure variables with Azure DevOps Library and Azure Pipelines
If you are getting started or are a seasoned IT professional dealing with building or deploying application code, you may have heard of containers. This is my note, along with a few links as I wrapped my head around the concept of a docker image, an image repository, and an image container. By the end … Continue reading Getting started with Docker
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