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What's New in the AzureRM Provider Version 4?

Major version 4.x of the AzureRM provider was just released! What’s new, what’s different, and what do you need to know? That’s what I’m going to cover in …

Ned Bellavance 9 min read
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Debugging the AzureRM Provider with VSCode

Recently I’ve been learning Go and applying it to technologies that I work on everyday, like Terraform. For instance, check out my Terrahash CLI tool for validating modules. …

Ned Bellavance 5 min read
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Using Azure Container Instances for an Azure DevOps Self-hosted Agent

When you create a new organization in Azure DevOps, you’ll quickly discover you’re not able to run any pipeline jobs using Microsoft-hosted agents. In fact, if you kick …

Ned Bellavance 6 min read
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Using OIDC Authentication with the AzureRM Backend

Microsoft recently announced the general availability of OIDC authentication for GitHub Actions using Azure AD. Naturally, I immediately thought of how I could use this to remove …

Ned Bellavance 7 min read
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What I Learned Building an Azure DevOps Pipeline with Terratest

I am in the process of creating a series of liveProjects for Manning Publishing, one of which involves deploying and managing an Azure Kubernetes Cluster using Terraform and Azure …

Ned Bellavance 10 min read
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Enabling Conditional Access for Azure Active Directory Applications

I’m in the process of updating my Managing Identities in Azure Active Directory course on Pluralsight. One of the demos in the course is configuring Conditional Access for an …

Ned Bellavance 6 min read
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The 2010s: A Decade in Review

In the most recent episode of Buffer Overflow, we talked about the biggest tech trends for the 2010s. I thought I would expand on my thoughts a little bit with this post. Check out …

Ned Bellavance 6 min read
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Microsoft Ignite 2019 - The Great Marketing Shift

The Ennui of Success In 2018, I attended Microsoft Ignite and one of the things I noticed during the keynote was how stale everything seemed. Satya appeared to not only be lacking …

Ned Bellavance 3 min read
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Using Ultra SSD Storage with Azure Kubernetes Service

In a previous post, I performed a storage performance benchmark of Azure Managed Disks and Azure Files for Azure Kubernetes Service. The testing included the now generally …

Ned Bellavance 9 min read