Welcome to the second part of our series on deploying a storage account to Azure with Bicep and GitHub Actions. In this article, we will be discussing how to create a GitHub Actions pipeline to deploy our infrastructure to Azure. Prerequisites Before we begin, make sure you have the following: Setting up the Pipeline To … Read more
To make sure the latest version of terraform is used when applying IaC code (mostly on a local Linux terminal) this bash script comes in handy ! The script is designed to automate the installation and update process of Terraform (binary).What does the script do: Below Bash Code will install or update Terraform (File: install_terraform.sh) … Read more
In this blog post, it is shown how to deploy an Azure Storage account using Bicep, a declarative language for describing and deploying Azure resources, and GitHub Actions, a CI/CD solution that’s directly integrated into GitHub. The Bicep File Our Bicep file, main.bicep, starts by defining a few parameters: The Bicep file then defines a … Read more
The AWS console screen will by default only list the resources like EC2 instances for 1 region at the time, this can be changed by using the ‘Global View’ option for EC2. For a quick and realtime overview of the state of the EC2 instances on a terminal, Boto3 (AWS SDK) can be used, Boto3 … Read more
This Article assumes renewal of an existing SSL (Letsencrypt) Certificate with DNS managed by Cloudflare. Renewal steps: 0. Preparation 1.Check Validity of the Certificate: In browser / SSL checker / openssl on host Example: vpn.devops100.net 2. Run the certbot command to renew the SSL Certificate for vpn.devops100.net 4. Check the TXT via Google Toolbox 5. … Read more
1.2 The self hosted Gitlab runner (executable on Linux VM) is not configured properly to use DinD Source: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/docker/using_docker_build.html#use-docker-in-docker 2.3 THIS SOLUTION IS POTENTIALLY UNSAFE – ALTERNATIVE Alternative is to use kaniko to create the docker image. kaniko solves two problems with using the Docker-in-Docker build method: * Docker-in-Docker requires privileged mode to function, which … Read more
Cloudflare does not proxy traffic on port 25 (SMTP) unless Cloudflare Spectrum is enabled and configured to proxy email traffic across Cloudflare. If you do not have Spectrum enabled, then no email traffic (SMTP) will actually pass through Cloudflare, and we will simply resolve the DNS. This also means that any DNS record used to send email … Read more
After creating a DNS domain (+ Records) in Cloudflare you can have issues getting to your websites because the SSL/TLS settings are not correct In most cases it can be solved by choosing ‘Full (strict) encryption’ in the SSL/TLS menu ! LINK
