jfolberth/azure_iac_flavors

Open source repository to help others learn about IaC and the various flavors

About Me

I am former Microsoft Azure MVP who currently works for Microsoft as a Senior Cloud Solutions Architect - Engineering. I currently reside in Grand Rapids, MI with my wife and kids. I have wide range in experiences from Systems Analyst, Application and ETL Development, Project Management, Cloud Engineering, DevOps consulting, and Cloud Architecture.

Blogging

I have a blog at Blog.JohnFolberth.com. Additionally I have had blogs posted and/or featured on:

• European SharePoint, Office 365 and Azure Conference (ESPC)
• Feedspot Top Terraform Blogs
• Feedspot Top Azure Blogs
• Top Stories from Microsoft DevOps Community
  • Dynamically Retain Azure DevOps Pipelines
  • Terraform, Azure DevOps, App Services, and Slots
  • Azure DevOps Terraform Task
• Microsoft Healthcare and Life Sciences Blog
  • Tracking Azure History with Azure Resource Graph
  • Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL w/React Quickstart - CoAuthor
  • Series of Posts on Azure DevOps YAML Pipelines
  • Series of Post on Azure Data Factory CI/CD

Interests

• Technology.
• A love hate relationship with running
• Trying to keep up with my kids
• Finding innovative and automated ways to solve technology issues
• Sharing what knowledge I have with others will simultaneously learning from them

Speaking Engagements

• 2023 Heartland Developer Conference: Azure Deployment Environments the Future of Development
• West Michigan Azure User Group: Introducing Azure Load Testing to your CI/CD Pipelines
• 2022 Heartland Developer Conference: "Many Flavors of Azure IaC"
• 2020 Heartland Developer Conference: "The DevOps Mindset"
• 2019 Heartland Developer Conference: "Data Analytics in Azure: Our Journey and Experience
• Omaha Azure User Group: YAML Deployment Pipelines
• Omaha Azure User Group: Azure Bicep Walkthrough

Publications

Tech Review on "Building Applications with Azure Resource Manager (ARM): Leverage IaC to Vastly Improve the LIfe Cycle of Your Applications"

Industry Certifications

Microsoft

GitHub

Terraform

Azure Hero Badgers

AWS

GitHub Stats

azure_iac_flavors's Issues

Add Form Recognizer for Bicep

Add Form Recognizer for Bicep

Update Name Suffix

Resource names are being determined in the main project file.

If using a resource like App Insights it will always have ai- infront of it. To drive consistency this should be set at the module level

Security Scanning

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Show how to use some of the security scanning commands

Describe the solution you'd like
Terraform: tfsec | checkov | terrascan | tflint
Bicep: PSRule | checkov
ARM: PSRule | checkov

PowerShell be added

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Would be beneficial to offer the examples in PowerShell

Describe the solution you'd like
PowerShell.md and existing solutions converted over.

Documentation Link for Cloning Repos Broken

Describe the bug
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Type of bug

• Documentation
• Terraform
• Bicep
• Pulumi
• ARM
• Other, Please clarify in comments

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Use Locals in Terraform Storage Example

Use Locals in Terraform Storage Example

Add Parameters for environment scaling

Should add ability to have multiple sku levels passed in. Currently relying in default will be across the languages

Upgrade Terraform for Storage Account

Update Terraform for the storage account to ->3.2

Add Managed Identity

Add Managed Identity settings to resource as best practice