Series Links: 1, 2 (this entry) Today I’m going to walk through the install and setup of Packer, and get our first builds running for Azure. I started this work in the previous article in this series, “Development Workspace with Terraform on Azure: Part 1 – Install and Setup Terraform and Azure CLI“. This is... Continue reading →

This is the 2nd post in a series of posts on OSCON 2019, the first is “OSCON: What it is.“. Happy 5th Birthday to The New Stack I tend to write a lot of articles, documentation, and all sorts of various things. It’s one of the many things I enjoy doing. A while back my... Continue reading →

Here is my updated schedule for the two weeks starting August 12th for my Twitch streams, the basic topics, meetups (a little beyond two weeks), and related events coming up. Series: Thrashing Code General Calamity This is going to be a mix of tech this week. Probably some database hacking, code hacking, samples, and setup... Continue reading →

So I’ve been fighting through getting some Packer images built in Azure again. I haven’t done this in almost a year but as always I’ve just walked in and BOOM I’ve got an error already. This first error I’ve gotten is after I create an Resource Group and then a Service Principal. I’ve gotten all... Continue reading →

Prerequisites before all of this. Have a basic understanding of how to use Terraform and what it does. This is covered pretty well in the Hashicorp Docs here (single page read <5 minutes) and if you have a LinkedIn Learning account check out my Terraform course “Learning Terraform“. Beyond that some basic CLI/terminal knowledge, understand... Continue reading →