Best practice of secrets in Azure DevOps and life-cycle management can be a complicated topic. In some cases, existing AzDo tasks might not fulfil your needs. This post reviews the options. The need to use secrets in Azure DevOps pipelines increases the more extensive the enterprise environment, and the more complicated Azure resources are in use. There are three options that I’ll go through in this blog post, and the usage of each case depends on the requirements and the…
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Implement Azure Infra using Terraform and Pipelines
Posted on 25.05.2020Continuous integration and delivery is part of DevOps processes, and currently part of most software projects. In my previous blog post, I had a review of the problem and why infrastructure as code (IaC) matters. The analysis included the architecture diagram and the Azure components. In this blog post as the continuation, you can read and learn how to Implement Azure Infra using Terraform and Pipelines to be part of your CI/CD in Azure DevOps. This blog post includes a…
Azure Infrastructure using Terraform and Pipelines
Posted on 18.05.2020The size and complexity of cloud infrastructure have a direct relationship with management, maintainability and cost control of cloud projects. It might be easy to create resources using the Azure Portal or the CLI, but when there is a need to update properties, change plans, upgrade services or re-create all services in new regions the situation is more tricky. The combination of Azure DevOps pipelines and Terraform brings an enterprise-level solution to solve the problem. The Infrastructure Problem My previous…
Azure SaaS platform, an output of exam preparations and experiments
Posted on 02.10.2019The latest Azure certification exams are demanding and need a lot of demos and hands-on training. During the preparations and experiments, an e-commerce Azure Saas Platform was formed unintentionally. Taking Microsoft certification exams has been apart of my professional career since 2007. Certifying myself not only verifies the current level of my knowledge but also makes me study hard for newly available technology. I’m currently on the DevOps journey with the following exams: AZ900 Azure Fundamentals (Done) AZ-103 Azure Administrator…
Azure Functions Hosting Options and Best Practices
Posted on 25.03.2019The process for creating Azure Functions is straightforward on the Azure Portal. The only confusing option you have to consider during the function creation is which hosting model to choose from the available choices. There are four different hosting plans to choose from, where you will also be able to determine which OS to host your functions. In this blog post, I’ll have a review of different choices and what suits you best. This is what you will see on…
Azure Functions, Serverless architecture in action
Posted on 13.03.2019One of the most popular Azure features is Azure App Services and the Platform as a Service (PaaS) architecture approach. It merely removes the overhead of setting up additional infrastructure, speeds up to get apps up and running and is an economical solution for hosting user faced web apps or API solutions for the web or mobile apps. For the last few years, App Services has played a significant role in the architecture and services I design for the customers.…