Wat?! Ugh Terraform State is Complicated Sometimes! ‘url has no host’

As I’ve been working through the series (part 1, 2, 3, and 4 so far), a number of issues come up (like this one), and this seemed like a good one to post too. As I’ve been working through I started stumbling into this error around destroying images via terraform destroy . Now, I’m not... Continue reading →

Development Workspace with Terraform on Azure: Part 4 – DSE w/ Packer + Importing State 4 Terraform

The next thing I wanted setup for my development workspace is a DataStax Enterprise Cluster. This will give me all of the Apache Cassandra database features plus a lot of additional features around search, OpsCenter, analytics, and more. I’ll elaborate on that in some future posts. For now, let’s get an image built we can... Continue reading →

Error “Build ‘azure-arm’ errored: adal: Failed to execute the refresh request. Error =…”

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 →

Development Workspace with Terraform on Azure: Part 1 – Install and Setup Terraform and Azure CLI

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 →

Setting Up Nodes, Firewall, & Instances in Google Cloud Platform

Here’s the run down of what I covered in the latest Thrashing Code Session (go subscribe here to the channel for future sessions or on Twitch). The core focus of this session was getting some further progress on my Terraform Project around getting a basic Cassandra and DataStax Enterprise Apache Cassandra Cluster up and running... Continue reading →