As you might have already learned, Terraform stores information about the infrastructure managed by it by using state files. By default, if we run Terraform code in a directory named /code/tf, it will record state in a file named /code/tf/terraform.tfstate file. This file contains data in JSON format which contains information about resources mentioned in the configuration files from the real-world infrastructure. Using this file, terraform knows what has been deployed and compare that to what has been mentioned in the configuration files, and come up with a plan on what needs to be changed. So its very critical that terraform is referring to correct state file, which ideally should be 1:1 mapping of real-world infrastructure.
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Using Terraform to create Service Endpoints in Azure DevOps
This is the 6th part in the series of blog posts on managing the Azure DevOps using Terraform. You can find the series index here. In the last part, we discussed the build pipeline creation using Terraform, where we covered only build and testing stages. We could have added release stage as well, but before we deploy anything to Azure, AWS, etc, we need to create respective service endpoints in the Azure DevOps project. In this part, we’ll discuss how we can create service endpoints using Terraform. One of the pre-requisites to create service endpoints is to have a service principal ready, which is basically used for authentication.
Read More »Using Terraform to define Azure DevOps Variables and Build Pipeline
This is the 5th post in the series of blog posts on managing Azure DevOps using the Terraform. You can find the series index here. In this blog post, we’ll learn to define variables and variable groups within the Azure DevOps as well as creating a Build pipeline, both using Terraform. We’ll be building onto our previous code where we ended up creating a git repository in the Azure DevOps Project. Although going through previous posts is not required to understand the concepts explained here, but its good to have a look because we’ll be referring parts of code from previous posts.
Read More »Using Terraform to Manage Azure DevOps Project Permissions
This is the 4th part in the series of the blog posts on managing the Azure DevOps using Terraform. You can find the series index here. In this part, we’ll discuss how to create user entitlements, create groups and manage group membership for Azure DevOps Project all using Terraform. For this, we have to use multiple resources from the Terraform Provider and also use data sources to read information back from the Azure DevOps. There are lots of permutations and combinations possible here. Since its not possible to cover every situation, we’ll discuss only some of them.
Read More »Using Terraform to Manage Azure DevOps Project features
This is the 2nd part in the series of blog posts on managing the Azure DevOps using Terraform. You can find the series index here. In this blog post, we’ll discuss how to manage the Azure DevOps Project features – Boards, Pipelines, Test Plans, Repositories and Artifacts using Terraform. By default, when deploying an Azure DevOps Project, all these features are enabled. However, certain teams may like to enable only certain features for satisfying specific requirements. We can manage the same in Terraform deployment using the features block in the azuredevops_project resource or via using the separate azuredevops_project_features resource. We’ll also discuss which one is a better and preferred method and why.
Understanding Microsoft Build System – Properties
In one of the previous post, we discussed about the significance of MSBuild and how to download it. We have also seen the very basics of schema that is needed by MSBuild. In this blog post, we are going to expand on the same by discussing Properties.
Concept of Properties
When you build projects, you frequently compile the source code with different build options. For example, for development environment release, you generally create a build with debug configuration with symbols so that the developers can use it to help finding bugs. For production release, you generally create a build with no symbol information. You would also like to also enable optimizations if its possible. Read More »
Understanding Microsoft Build System – What is MSBuild
MSBuild is perhaps one of the most used but uncredited piece of technology. The Microsoft Build Engine or more known as MSBuild, is a platform for building applications. Chances are that if you have ever used Visual Studio or compiled a .NET based project, you have used it knowingly or un-knowingly. Visual Studio uses MSBuild, but it doesn’t depend on Visual Studio. By invoking msbuild.exe on your project or solution file, you can orchestrate and build products in environments where Visual Studio is not installed. For MSBuild to work properly, you need to use an XML schema that defines how the build platform processes and builds software.
In this blog post, we’ll learn just basics of MSBuild, understanding what it is. Through a series of upcoming posts, we’ll learn how to use the XML schema so that MSBuild can build software as per our needs.
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Getting started with github
In this post, we’ll explore how to use github(https://github.com) and few basic steps such as creating repository, making some changes and commit our changes. In this age of devops, it is an essential skills to have for IT pros as well. Not that you’ll need to start writing code in .net or node.js but github is home to most open source projects even for PowerShell code. A lot of folks have moved to put their PowerShell module/scripts on github.
To get started, you’ll need to have a account on https://github.com. Once you have created an account, you can start creating project. In github terms, a repository is equivalent of a project. You would place all code belonging to project in the repository.Read More »
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