This post shows how to configure Terraform’s OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication from GitLab CI to Azure, for both the azurerm provider and the azurerm backend, which until recently was blocked by a known issue. The issue was fixed and released in v1.3.4.
I always wondered how the default AKS version was selected via the Azure portal, so worked out Bash and PowerShell examples for showing the default AKS version via the command-line.
A quick tip on how to avoid backup deletion during Velero upgrades via Argo CD.
Myself and several other Microsoft Engineers were recently struggling with intermittent AKS node issues. When the issue occurred, the node(s) would not allow new pods to be created, or any method of connecting a terminal session. In short, there was no method of collecting logs from these broken ...
I had to automate some AKS tasks, which could only continue when disks had detached from their nodes. The solution should accept AKS cluster and PVC names, then wait for the disks to no longer show as Attached, and also be available in both PowerShell and Bash.
I needed a way to create all possible combinations from two lists. The first was a list of Azure AD Roles, and the second was a list of target Resource Groups where the AAD Roles should be assigned.
Whilst working on a Helm Chart pipeline, I wanted to bring together many of the testing steps I’ve used in other pipelines. This included validation, linting, and installing. The problem was the Helm Chart test pipeline required a nested Kubernetes environment, as our self-hosted GitLab runs on ...
Last week I was tasked with increasing the size of some Persistent Volumes (PV) for one of the apps running on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). If possible, this task was to be completed without any downtime to the application.
Popular DevOps tools like Packer and Ansible come with the ability to do interactive debugging, which is essential when troubleshooting issues quickly. However, what happens when you’re running your CI pipelines on Kubernetes?
In the previous post I went over an example Azure DevOps Build Pipeline for PowerShell modules. This post will continue from where we left off and discuss the Azure DevOps Release Pipeline for PowerShell modules.
A few months ago did a demo at the Bristol WinOps Meetup showing an example Azure DevOps Build Pipeline for PowerShell modules. I told everyone I’d get a blog post up “soon” with more information, so here it is; better late than never! I’ll go over the goals for the example PowerShell Module, the...
I needed a secure method of configuring Terraform so that plain text passwords were not readable. I also wanted to share the Terraform state with other collaborators, so they could work on the same Terraform configuration.
Troubleshooting “Virtual machine customization failed” error during Terraform vSphere Cloning.
I wanted to quickly build a vSphere environment so I could test provisioning and configuration with other tools like Terraform and Ansible. I had an old desktop PC lying around with 32GB RAM and several SSDs, so decided to use that.
You’ve installed and tested Ansible locally, then installed Ansible AWX (Open Source Ansible Tower) using Docker, and finally tested Ansible AWX with Windows Hosts. You now want to test Azure Provisioning using Ansible AWX.