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Following on from my previous post about managing tags using Azure Policy and Terraform, there was some interest in how the Policies worked for both enforcing the tags, and making them inherit down from the Resource Group to the deployed resources.

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When deploying resources via Terraform, especially as part of a CI/CD pipeline, one of the main pain points I’ve seen from a Governance perspective is how best to manage tagging. For example, say I want to define the following tags for filtering and cost management purposes:

  • business_owner
  • cost_centre
  • application_name
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Hashicorp Terraform is a very popular tool for deploying and managing resources, both in a cloud environment or on-premises. The support in Azure for Terraform is excellent, but I had a bit of trouble getting the Azure Monitor agent installed as a VM Extension, so thought I would share my working code here.

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SSH File Transfer Protocol or SFTP has been around for over 20 years, and still remains a great way to transfer files securely, specifically allowing the use of SSH keys to ensure that only the right users can perform the necessary operations.

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One of the cool features introduced in Windows Server 2012 was Storage Spaces, which is the ability to create Storage Pools that span multiple physical disks; it is sort of like software RAID on steroids. Storage Spaces was further enhanced in 2012 R2, and some additional polish has been added in 2016.

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