Workload

Introduction Hi 👋 my fellow tech enthusiasts. As a DevOps Engineer, I often find myself navigating the complex waters of IT challenges both at work and during my free time. Today, I want to share a recent journey into the world of DevOps where we’ll be deploying an Azure Storage Account using Terraform and Azure YAML Pipelines. So, grab your virtual life vests, and let’s embark on this adventure. Why Terraform and Azure YAML Pipelines? Terraform, an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool, is a powerful choice for provisioning and managing cloud resources. When combined with Azure DevOps YAML Pipelines, it becomes an even more powerful force for automating deployments, ensuring consistency, and facilitating collaboration within your DevOps team. ...

About 2 months ago I wrote a blog post about workload identity federation with GitHub Actions. When an application needs to access cloud based resources it often needs to think about authentication and authorization. Using workload identity federation there is no need to use any keys or secrets. For example, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure are providing this great feature. And now this feature has also been released for Azure DevOps! This means that organizations can now take advantage of this to provide an even more secure way to connect to Azure from Azure DevOps, or rather Azure Pipelines, via a Service Connection. ...