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terraform-azurerm-jmusicbot 2.0: Self-Updating, Always-On Cloud Solution for JMusicBot

terraform-azurerm-jmusicbot 2.0: Self-Updating, Always-On Cloud Solution for JMusicBot

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From Manual Deployments to Cloud Automation: A Discord Music Bot Journey About two years ago, YouTube cracked down on Groovy Bot and other popular music bots for Discord. This left many servers, including ours, without a reliable way to play music. That’s when I decided to set up our solution using Jagrosh’s Java-based JMusicBot. The Beginning: Basic and Manual I started with a simple plan: a basic Terraform module that set up a VM in Azure and installed JMusicBot. It…

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Introducing: terraform-azurerm-jmusicbot v1.1.0 – Cost Savings, Azure Function, and Linux Service Creation

Introducing: terraform-azurerm-jmusicbot v1.1.0 – Cost Savings, Azure Function, and Linux Service Creation

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The first version of tf-jdiscord module was just okay. I had to manually deploy it to Azure whenever someone in my Discord wanted to play a song or when I was in the mood for some background music. We’re pretty big on music, so that ended up being a frequent task—over 50 manual deployments in the last year alone. Needless to say, the constant cycle of applying and destroying the module got old fast. The real issue arose when I’d…

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terraform-azurerm-storage-account: A Terraform Module to Deploy ‘Secure By Default’ Storage Accounts

terraform-azurerm-storage-account: A Terraform Module to Deploy ‘Secure By Default’ Storage Accounts

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As organizations increasingly rely on cloud storage solutions, securing data becomes paramount. Storage accounts offer a scalable and durable storage option in the Azure cloud. To simplify the process of provisioning secure storage accounts, I have developed a Terraform module called terraform-azurerm-storage-account. In this blog post, I will guide you through the features and benefits of this module. The Importance of Secure Defaults Using the default settings when provisioning a new storage account can create several vulnerabilities. For instance, by…

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Terraform Module to Restrict App Service Plan SKUs: Inspired by AZAdvertizer

Terraform Module to Restrict App Service Plan SKUs: Inspired by AZAdvertizer

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In Azure, maintaining compliance and minimizing risk is a constant challenge. This is particularly true when managing App Service Plans for a tenant(s), where unrestricted use of all SKUs can introduce risk. This becomes crucial in environments where adherence to specific App Service Plans is a requirement. Alternatively, in a remediation scenario, if your organization lacks governance and has created numerous improperly specified App Service Plans, you can first remediate these, and then deploy and assign this policy definition. To…

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terraform-azurerm-disallow-ragrs-policy: A Terraform Module to Prevent or Audit the Creation of Standard_RAGRS Storage Accounts

terraform-azurerm-disallow-ragrs-policy: A Terraform Module to Prevent or Audit the Creation of Standard_RAGRS Storage Accounts

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As Azure engineers, we need to be prudent in managing our resources. One such resource is storage accounts. The default option when creating a storage account via the Azure portal or CLI is Standard_RAGRS SKU, which is usually overkill. Here, we introduce the terraform-azurerm-disallow-ragrs-policy module that helps enforce cost-effective use of storage by preventing or auditing the creation of Standard_RAGRS storage accounts. Understanding the Standard_RAGRS vs Standard_GRS Dilemma Standard_RAGRS (Read-Access Geographically Redundant Storage) offers geo-replication across two regions, with read-only…

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terraform-azurerm-jmusicbot: A Terraform Module to Deploy JMusicBot into Azure

terraform-azurerm-jmusicbot: A Terraform Module to Deploy JMusicBot into Azure

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Have you ever been in a Discord server with a music bot that keeps going offline? It can be frustrating for the server members and those hosting the bot on their personal machines. That’s where TF-JDiscordBot comes in. This Terraform module installs, configures, and runs JMusicBot (https://jmusicbot.com/) on an Ubuntu 18 instance hosted in the Azure cloud. This way, you can have a reliable music bot for your Discord server without worrying about your personal machine being online 24/7. Update:…

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