Marcus' Blog

Hey, you. You’re not manually deploying your Azure Bicep Infrastructure as Code, are you?!? Let’s prevent that next production outage, help your team collaborate on changes, and enable more frequent deployments. In this post, I’ll outline what tooling is available to integrate Bicep in your pipelines, and some good practices... [Read More]

I wanted to document this after spending a frustrating amount of time troubleshooting getting this setup. I was getting this error when running Terraform Plan: [Read More]

Why would you choose Microsoft’s new Bicep DSL over HashiCorp’s Terraform? I would like to give you my perspective, as someone who ditched ARM templates for Terraform in most of my Infrastructure as Code projects. To set the context of this blog post, I’ll be talking about Azure focused customers.... [Read More]

There are two main ways to create re-usable components for Azure Pipelines. I’ll review the pros and cons of each and talk about when it makes sense to use one over the other. Keep in mind that the two are not mutually exclusive, so it may make sense to use... [Read More]

I’ve worked with quite a few teams who aren’t aware of, or forget about, the Definition of “Done”. In my opinion, this is one of the easiest, low effort, high impact elements of Agile that a team can adopt. [Read More]