Introduction Ok so recently I was working on a code project which had a hard dependency on a SQL database. Now normally I’d try and mock things and add abstractions etc. but for what was a relatively simple service, I wondered if there might be a better way to approach this. …

Introduction So, you’ve heard of Terraform, right? but you don’t actually know what it is or how it works? Well, fellow readers strap yourselves in for my beginners' guide. In this post, I will explain to you the basic concepts of Terraform, how you use it, how it works and enlighten…

UPDATE: It would appear that the azurerm provider now natively supports App Config Values as of v2.75.0 azurerm_app_configuration_key | Resources | hashicorp/azurerm | Terraform Registry so my advice would be to move to the latest version of the provider and use the native code. Introduction Have you ever found yourself in…

Introduction Terraform is a very useful tool for managing infrastructure as code (IaC), it allows us to easily define our desired state via a common language (HCL or JSON), then using the Terraform engine, parse this desired state compare it to actual state and make the necessary updates our environment(s). It…

Introduction I guess you could say I have been a software engineer for some 30+ years now. I started out writing my very first program at the age of 4 or 5 on a Commodore 64. …

Introduction Welcome dear readers, hopefully this blog post finds you well, and not as I was… ripping my hair out trying to get an ACI running within a VNet on Azure. …

Introduction Ok, so we’ve all been there before, we join a new team, we clone the source code repository, we look at the README.md… and then we see the huge list of prerequisites required just to compile the code and instantly we want to start crying…