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Practical guides and deep dives into FinOps cost optimization, DevSecOps pipeline automation, Terraform architectures, and cloud governance.
FinOps - Budget and Alerts
How to configure budget and alerts for Azure resource group in terraform code to provide cost visibility (FinOps).
Oct 30, 2023
FinOps - IaC pipeline cost control
How to implement cost visibility and automated cost policy validation in development pipelines for IaC (Infrastructure as a Code) resources with the use of infracost tool.
Oct 3, 2023
Azure Monitor Agent VM extension with Terraform
How to install Azure Monitor Agent virtual machine extension, configuring data collection rule and Log Analytics workspace with Terraform to collect Windows events.
Jan 16, 2023
DevSecOps - DAST scanning in Azure DevOps
How to implement DAST security scanning for web application/portal with the use of the Dastardly tool as a part of Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline.
Nov 28, 2022
DevSecOps - inviting security to the DevOps party
DevSecOps - Overview of DevSecOps concept and main elements
Nov 14, 2022
How to scan a container for vulnerabilities and publish results as a part of Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline
DevSecOps - How to scan a container for vulnerabilities and publish results as a part of Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline.
Sep 8, 2021
How to validate terraform script and run security static code analysis as a part of Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline
DevSecOps - How to validate terraform script and run security static code analysis with use of tfsec as a part of Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline.
Jul 12, 2021
How to expose secret variables in Azure DevOps
How to expose secret variables in Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline with use of PowerShell step.
Feb 1, 2021
How to build and test SQL server within Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline
How to create a cloud lab with customised SQL Server VM, domain controller and Azure DevOps build agent in Azure with use of Terraform as part of CI/CD pipeline and test it with Pester 5.
Jan 18, 2021
How to configure cloud lab with Azure DevOps agent and DC in Terraform
How to create, customize Azure SQL Server VM and add it to a cloud lab including domain controller and Azure DevOps build agent in Azure with use of Terraform.
Nov 10, 2020
How to configure cloud lab with Azure DevOps agent and domain controller in Terraform
How to create a test environment/cloud lab with a domain controller and Azure DevOps (VSTS) agent in Terraform.
Aug 10, 2020
How to configure Azure VM extension in Terraform
How to configure Azure VM extension with the use of Terraform. Step by step guide how to add VM to a domain, configure the AV agent and run a custom script.
Jun 25, 2020
Test configuration in Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline with use of Pester framework
Step by step guide how to add environment Pester test into Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline.
May 5, 2020
Azure DevOps pipeline to build and destroy SQL server
Step by step guide how to build and destroy Microsoft SQL server in Azure DevOps pipeline with use of infrastructure as a code Terraform scripts.
Mar 9, 2020
Automated SQL Servers Build in Azure With a Single Terraform Command
Automated SQL servers build in Azure with a single Terraform command
Jan 27, 2020
Naming and tagging in Azure
Naming and tagging in Azure with use of Terraform script
Jan 6, 2020
Building SQL Server in Azure with Terraform
Step by step guide how to build standalone SQL server in Azure with use of Terraform script
Nov 20, 2019
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