DevOps

Checking Out Code Committed Within the Same GitHub Actions Workflow Run

When using GitHub Actions, we often include steps that use Git to check out the code of the repository, make some changes to the code, and then commit these changes back to the repo. Additional steps subsequently act upon these changes within the same workflow run. For example, appending auto-generated release notes to a CHANGELOG.md file and committing it to the repo, to later bundle the changelog with release artifacts. Another example is using a workflow that periodically uses a linter to clean up the code base. Simple enough, right?

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Automate Building Custom Windows Images For Azure Virtual Desktop With Packer And GitHub Actions

One aspect of managing Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) is keeping it up-to-date. One strategy is periodically building a “golden” image and re-deploying AVD session host VMs using the updated image. In this post, we’ll use Packer and GitHub Actions to build a Windows 11 image and push it to Azure.

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Use Terraform to Deploy an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Cluster, Traefik 2, cert-manager, and Let’s Encrypt Certificates

In this post, we will deploy a simple Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster from scratch. To expose our web services securely, we will install Traefik 2 and configure cert-manager to manage Let’s Encrypt certificates. The best part about it: we will do everything with Terraform.

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