Routing a Public IP Over a VPN Connection
Each industry has its weird little standards. When I worked in the pharmacy space, that weird little standard was how you had to route certain public IP add...
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2024
Terraform Version Constraint Syntax (Or “Learning From Our Mistakes”)
So I’ve just started this project and spent all this time fine-tuning my first series of actionable posts to deploy an Azure Static Web App. I published the ...
Update Static Web App
Madyson, the CEO of Scramoose and a real ideas guy (trust fund kid), had the brilliant notion of trying to solicit investors in the company, even though we d...
Create GitHub Actions Workflow
Now it’s time to deploy our website to our Static Web App resource using GitHub Actions.
Static Web App Local Development
Before we deploy our website to Azure, we want to make sure it looks right. We can do this by developing the app locally on our laptop. As you might guess, t...
Push Static Web App Project to GitHub
Now that we’ve made some changes, we should push those changes up to GitHub in case our laptop craps out. We’re also going to start screwing around with our ...
Deploy Static Web App
If you’ve been following along with the guided tour, you know everything up to now has just been pillow talk. Well, it’s time to get down and dirty as we use...
Configure Your Development Environment
Let’s get our house in order first and create our GitHub repositories and set up our VS Code workspace.
Static Web App
Azure has several options for hosting your web application. We’re going to use an Azure Static Web App because we just need a simple website without a lot of...
HTML Rendering
If you’re not a web developer, the concepts of web applications, web services, and websites can be a little squishy. You may have also heard about web APIs a...
Things to Know About This Project
Since this is the first real service we’re deploying as part of our Scramoose venture, here’s a bunch of random shit to know before you jump in.
Create GitHub Account & Repository
As previously stated, we’ll be using GitHub to store and share our IaC files.
Azure Terraform Tutorial
It’s time! Let’s learn how to use Terraform to manage Azure resources!
Terraform
Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code (IaC) tool created by Hashicorp. You can write Terraform files to manage a number of cloud resources, incl...
ARM Template & Bicep Tutorials
If you’re interested in learning how to deploy Azure resources using ARM templates or Bicep, Azure has some quickstart guides to give you the quick ‘n dirty ...
Azure-Specific Infrastructure as Code Tools
Microsoft has a native set of tools for IaC that can only be used for managing Azure resources, namely ARM templates and Bicep. This blog will use Terraform ...
Thinking Like a Developer?
Let’s be honest. Fair or not, there tends to be a hierarchy to the technology career ecosystem. Certain disciplines simply don’t get no respect. I’d say the ...
Configure Visual Studio Code
Since infrastructure as code files are just text files, you’ll need some kind of editor to author these files. As I mentioned, you can use any editor that yo...
Coding Principles
Some people say platform infrastructure folks are really developers. Others say platform folks are mere humans and should not be allowed to make eye contact ...
Infrastructure as Code Introduction
Infrastructure as code (IaC) is a way to define your infrastructure using code. It’s what this blog is all about and is a reliable way to automate the deploy...
Naming Conventions
Spend some time thinking about how you will name your resources and you’ll be thankful. This sounds trivial, but it is perhaps the most important thing you’l...
Your First Cloud Resource
If you are brand new to the cloud, it’s time to get your hands dirty! Honestly, this tutorial won’t teach you a ton about platform engineering, but creating ...
Install Azure Command Line Tools
There are many ways to access Azure, but if you plan on using a command line, you’ll need to install the appropriate tool.
Accessing Azure
If you’re brand new to the cloud and are still having trouble wrapping your head around how you “get to it” so you can use it, let my try to clear that up.
Create Landing Zones
You can manually make a landing zone if you want. Create all your subscriptions and, optionally, management groups, and then assign RBAC and policies on thos...
Landing Zones
First, I’m going to make fun of landing zones, because I didn’t understand what in god’s name they were even after carefully reading the documentation. Try i...
Entra ID
Entra ID is Microsoft’s cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) service. It is used by both Microsoft 365 and Azure to store user accounts and allow...
Azure Cloud Structure
The first actual post about Azure! This one is still going to be boring, though. You can start using Azure without knowing how it’s all organized, but it he...
Sign Up for the Cloud
Signing up for a cloud service is easy. So easy that I’m simply going to refer you to the link: Create Free Azure Account You’ll notice the account is free...
Working with Teams
Teamwork makes the dreamwokridikd. The more people you work with, the more decisions you have to make about how you work. What Is a Team? Real quick, for t...
DevOps and Other Buzzwords
This post is a grab bag of techy words that you should know. Some of them are important, some are not. But all of them are words.
Git Tutorial
There’s already a ton of Git tutorials out there, so I’m just going to point you to them.
Git
Oh you’ve definitely heard of Git, but if you’re starting out in the platform engineering world it might seem strange and scary. Don’t be scared, just carve ...
“as a Service”
As you start your cloud journey, you’ve probably come across a bunch of “as a service” terms, like the previously mentioned infrastructure as a service. When...
2023
The Azure Cloud Operating System
If you read my post about the history of the cloud, you may be thinking that I’ve skipped over some important steps on the cloud story. In short, I said that...
What is the Cloud?
If you don’t really know what “the cloud” means, don’t feel bad. You’re not alone. There are a lot of different ways to think of what the cloud is. Kind of l...