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This note is a short addition to the last post -CI/CD of Terraform workspace with YAML-based Azure Pipelines. At the end of that article, I mentioned a few alternate routes regarding YAML-based Azure Pipelines, which I will be covering here. So that we are on the same page, I broke down the build pipeline into … Continue reading YAML based Azure Pipeline approach for CI/CD of Terraform workspace
This note focuses on using Azure DevOps with Terraform workspace to automate the ideas discussed in the previous two notes (i) CI/CD using Terraform and Azure Pipelines -ideation and (ii) Terraform workspace with multiple AWS accounts. If you are new to Azure DevOps, I would suggest you familiarize yourself with either Azure DevOps build and … Continue reading CI/CD of Terraform workspace with YAML based Azure Pipelines
My objectives was to use Terraform to provision resources across environments in the AWS cloud infrastructure. Following a typical CI/CD model, my idea was to build once and deploy multiple. Since there was nothing to build in terraform, I wanted to make sure the same terraform code was applied across all environments. So I thought, … Continue reading Terraform workspace with multiple AWS accounts
After writing a few notes on "Azure DevOps and Terraform," I thought of exploring the idea of integrating Azure DevOps and Terraform a little further. Generally speaking, in Azure Pipelines (classic editor), a build definition (pipeline in Azure DevOps services) is used to compile and package an artifact. Then, under Releases, we have a release … Continue reading CI/CD using Terraform and Azure Pipelines -ideation
In this post, I discuss step by step using AWS CLI how to create a trust relationship between a user in the Trusted account and a role in the Trusting account. The idea is, in the end, we will have the credentials of a user in the Trusted AWS account that can manage resources in … Continue reading Creating IAM assume-role relationship between two AWS accounts
Generally speaking, when we work with Terraform to provision resources in AWS Cloud, we have a few pre-requisites. These are -a remote backend to store the Terraform state file, a lock table, and IAM user credentials that Terraform will require to provision the resources. I say "generally speaking" because you can get away with the … Continue reading Create Terraform pre-requisites for AWS using AWS CLI in 3 easy steps
Any Terraform project configuring resources in Azure has pre-requisites. These are (i) a storage account, a container in the storage account, and the access key to the storage account, and (ii) a service principal credential to be able to communicate with Azure to create-update-delete resources. In this post, I describe the process to set up … Continue reading Create Terraform pre-requisites for Azure using Azure CLI in 3 easy steps
This note is in continuation to the previous one -Terraform Remote State -Part1: Using AWS, where I've covered the what and how of a terraform remote state. So that we are all on the same page, I'll list down a few important points related to that: -the current state of infrastructure as referred to by … Continue reading Terraform Remote State -Part 2: Using Azure
When I started learning Terraform, I installed the tool, wrote Terraform configuration files, and ran the commands from my local (laptop). I did not put a lot of thought into understanding a remote state and how it is useful. As I continued learning, and as I started using Azure DevOps to automate infrastructure provisioning using … Continue reading Terraform Remote State -Part 1: Using AWS
Recently[January 2021], I appeared in Microsoft's Azure Administrator certification exam and cleared that. In this post, I list the approach I followed to achieve that. I hope it benefits you too. First and foremost, the exam page at docs.microsoft.com is the source of truth. Microsoft keeps updating the skills measured from time to time, so … Continue reading How I prepared for and passed Azure Administrator Associate certification [AZ-104]
