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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-azurerm-aznamingtool: A Terraform Module to Deploy Microsoft’s Azure Naming Tool

terraform-azurerm-aznamingtool: A Terraform Module to Deploy Microsoft’s Azure Naming Tool

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Struggling with inconsistent Azure resource naming? You’re not alone. Manually managing naming standards for various resources can be both time-consuming and error-prone, which may cause confusion later on. To address this, Microsoft created a free .NET core application called AzNamingTool. With a bit of configuration, this tool can generate compliant and consistent names for all Azure resources. I was inspired to create this Terraform module after reading a blog post from Microsoft MVP, Luke Murray. In his post, Luke uses…

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Managing Resources Using Azure Resource Inventory and PowerShell – My Living Collection of PS Scripts

Managing Resources Using Azure Resource Inventory and PowerShell – My Living Collection of PS Scripts

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Introduction Coming into a new Azure tenant as part of a new position or when engaging with a new client can be challenging. Often the environments are very complicated, containing different management groups, many many subscriptions, and 100s of resource groups across said subscriptions. An excellent way to get a comprehensive overview of all resources within an Azure tenant is to use the Azure Resource Inventory Report (ARI). The ARI was created by Microsoft Azure Engineers back in 2018 and…

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Deploying A Kusama Validator Into Azure Using Terraform and Bash

Deploying A Kusama Validator Into Azure Using Terraform and Bash

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Introduction Kusama is a decentralized computer network. It was founded in 2019 by the creators of Polkadot, Gavin Wood (a co-founder of Ethereum), Peter Czaban, and Robert Habermeier. Kusama uses the same codebase and binary file as Polkadot. As such, a big focus of Kusama is to provide a test platform for Polkadot software developers and stakeholders to deploy and thoroughly test decentralized solutions running on Substrate before releasing them into the Polkadot ecosystem. To understand the Polkadot ecosystem is…

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Part 5 – Configuring Budget and Resource Utilization Alerts

Part 5 – Configuring Budget and Resource Utilization Alerts

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Part 5 of 5 from the series Deploying a Cheap, Secure, and Automated WordPress Website on Azure. Prerequisites:-Completed part 4 where we generated an SSL certificate and configured end-to-end HTTPS encryption for our site. At this stage in the setup, we have a fully functional and secure WordPress site with a process to automatically renew our SSL certificates for free. If you are like me, you are trying to run a WordPress site without breaking the bank. In that spirit,…

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Part 4 – Configuring SSL/TLS Settings

Part 4 – Configuring SSL/TLS Settings

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Part 4 of 5 from the series Deploying a Cheap, Secure, and Automated WordPress Website on Azure. Prerequisites:-Completed part 3 where we configured our custom domain and DNS in Azure and Cloudflare. If you’ve made it to this point, you have successfully setup a WordPress site using Azure App Service. You have setup Cloudflare as your DNS provider and reverse proxy. You deployed Acmebot as an Azure function, configured its Application settings, configured the associated Azure Key vault’s permissions, and…

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Part 3 – Automating SSL Certificate Creation and Renewal Using ACMEbot

Part 3 – Automating SSL Certificate Creation and Renewal Using ACMEbot

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Part 3 of 5 from the series Deploying a Cheap, Secure, and Automated WordPress Website on Azure. Prerequisites:-Completed Part 2 where we configured our custom domain and DNS in Azure and Cloudflare. A very important piece of your website’s security is having a trusted SSL certificate bound to it. The SSL certificate enables the encrypted connection that web browsers rely on to connect securely to your website. Purchasing and renewing SSL certificates is a costly and time-consuming process. On top…

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Part 2 – Configuring a Custom Domain in Azure and Cloudflare

Part 2 – Configuring a Custom Domain in Azure and Cloudflare

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Part 2 of 5 from the series Deploying a Cheap, Secure, and Automated WordPress Website on Azure. Prerequisites:-Completed Part 1 where we deployed a WordPress site using Azure App Service. In this post, we will cover adding a custom domain to Azure and verifying it via Cloudflare DNS. We will then add an A record to Cloudflare so we can use a custom domain instead of the domain.azurewebsites.net address provided to use by Azure. To finish, we will add one…

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Part 1 – Deploying WordPress via Azure Marketplace

Part 1 – Deploying WordPress via Azure Marketplace

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Part 1 of 5 from the series Deploying a Cheap, Secure, and Automated WordPress Website on Azure. Prerequisites: An Azure Subscription – Azure offers a 200$ credit, enough to run this solution for months Cloudflare Account and Registered Domain – Total cost over 3 years – $25  to $40 1. Head to the Azure portal, from the home page, search for Marketplace and click on Marketplace. 2. From the Marketplace, search for WordPress, press enter, select the first option, click…

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Deploying a Cheap, Secure, and Automated WordPress website on Azure

Deploying a Cheap, Secure, and Automated WordPress website on Azure

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Facts are fun, let’s start with a few. According to WordPress.com, WordPress-powered websites make up 42% of the internet.   A 2021 survey by Statista revealed that 67% of organizations are using Azure for their cloud services W3Techs reports Cloudflare is used by 80.0% of all the websites they know. About 19% of the entire internet. According to Let’s Encrypt, over 260 million websites use its TLS certificates In this five-part series, we will deploy, secure, set up a budget,…

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