Terraform Module Lifecycle: From First Variable to a Release Teams Can Trust
Terraform module lifecycle for platform teams: design, test, review, release, consume and deprecate modules on Azure so every version is one teams can trust.
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Terraform Calling Conventions: How Your Modules Should Actually Talk to Each Other
Terraform module source, pinning, inputs and outputs: the calling conventions that let platform teams change modules on Azure without breaking every consumer.
What Your Pipeline Can Actually Catch: Building the AI Code Scanning Layer
AI tools generate code fast. Your pipeline needs to catch what they get wrong. Here’s how to build a scanning layer across IaC, containers, and application code.
Custom GitHub Actions for Platform Engineers
Learn how to build composite GitHub Actions that standardise deployments across teams. A practical guide for platform engineers, with a real Azure OIDC login action walkthrough.
GitHub Actions Workflow for Platform Engineers
Learn how to build a production-ready, reusable GitHub Actions workflow for platform engineering. Covers secrets management, OIDC, concurrency control, Checkov, Infracost and more
GitHub Workflows Fundamentals
Learn GitHub Workflow fundamentals with a practical, real-world approach. Understand triggers, jobs, runners, contexts, and secrets—especially if you’re coming from Azure DevOps.
5 Common Terraform Mistakes in Azure (And How to Fix Them)
Learn how to avoid common mistakes within your Terraform code and modules
Terraform Conditional Logic and Loops
Learn how to handle conditional logic and loops in Terraform using real-world patterns. This guide covers count, for_each, lookups, locals, dynamic blocks, and when to use each when building reusable Terraform modules.
Building an Azure Service Catalog: Self-Service Cloud Infrastructure for Your Teams
Explore how to build a self-service Azure Service Catalog using IaC, DevOps pipelines, and governance to empower teams without bottlenecks.
Detecting and Preventing Terraform Configuration Drift with Azure DevOps
In the previous posts in this series, I’ve highlighted the benefits of using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and more specifically integrating Terraform with DevOps CI/CD pipelines and optimising pipelines with pull requests and automatic tagging. As we’ve seen, using IaC is a reliable way to deploy and manage resources in Azure, giving us consistency, repeatability, … Read more