Blog - Gordon Beeming

Playing with Azure and Terraform

I recently presented "Playing with Azure and Terraform" at our user group locally in Durban, there were some requests for a recording so I thought I'd share it here 😊 We play with a lot of different tech in this session like GitHub Codespaces, Azure, Cloudflare and Snyk

Posted on September 01, 2022 Azure Azure SQL Azure Web Apps Cloudflare DevSecOps GitHub GitHub Codespaces IaC Security SecurityScanning snyk Terraform YouTube Videos

Scanning Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for vulnerabilities

In the modern world where it feels like every sentence has a Dev⭐Ops word in it, 1 that is probably used more than most is DevSecOps.When teams focus on DevSecOps they make sure to integrate security into every phase of development, this includes scanning for vulnerabilities as soon as possible. This videos shows you briefly how you can use Snyk to scan your terraform templates for vulnerabilities from your CLI as well as part of every commit pushed to GitHub.

Posted on August 24, 2022 DevSecOps GitHub IaC Security SecurityScanning snyk Terraform

Interacting with Cloudflare DNS and Origin Certs using Terraform

In this video we'll take a look at connecting to Cloudflare with terraform to fully automate a full (strict) SSL/TLS encryption mode setup We'll also cover setting up a basic nginx server which we'll use to validate that our setup is working as expected.

Posted on August 17, 2022 Azure Cloudflare GitHub IaC Terraform

Managing GitHub secrets using terraform

In this video we'll take a look at Managing GitHub secrets using terraform as well as federated identities from GitHub into Azure. You should only be storing secrets if you absolutely need to, in this demo although we are only accessing storage accounts the change from a storage connection string to Azure Federated Identity means that we can access any of resource the identity has access too using RBAC which is a much better overall approach.

Posted on August 11, 2022 Azure GitHub IaC Security Terraform

Building basic Azure infrastructure using Terraform

In this video we'll take a look at how to build some basic Azure infrastructure using Terraform.

Posted on August 04, 2022 Azure IaC Terraform