GitHub Codespaces is a way to get a fully powered Visual Studio Code experience in the browser. It’s your cloud-enabled development machine, without needing anything but a web browser. It’s currently in beta and I got access a couple weeks ago. Today, I wanted to give it a spin. Rather than provide a simple demo, […]
Category: DevOps
Kubernetes GitOps using Azure Arc
Lately, I’ve been learning more about Azure Arc. As part of this learning, I’ve been contributing to a great GitHub repo that contains a number of example scenarios for Azure Arc. Most of these examples are fully automated, so you can learn about Arc even more quickly. My last learning experience was how to leverage […]
Connect Azure Functions securely to Key Vault using VNET integration and Private Link
I did some work with a customer last week to integrate Functions with Key Vault without using the public IP of the Key Vault. This setup worked perfectly, although there were a couple of steps involved. To document those steps, I decided to write this post. In this post we’ll build a new Azure Function […]
How to use ‘terraform output’ in a GitHub action
Recently, I was building a GitHub Actions pipeline, and needed to access output from Terraform. There’s a very convenient feature in Terraform that allows you to get output from your applied .tf files. You can call those values from the shell directly, and assign them to variables in your shell. What you need to do […]
Onboarding a Kubernetes cluster to Azure Arc
Azure Arc is part of Microsoft’s vision for a successful hybrid cloud deployments and management. Arc enables consistent management of your IT estate across multi-cloud, hybrid and edge deployments. What Arc enables is the use of Azure management and policy tools to manage and secure your IT estate. Currently, there are three solutions announced that […]