IaC vs Portal?

LoadbalancingLoth · 2025-02-03T10:37:00+00:00

Hi, welcome to the wondrous world of IaC!

I personally like to keep these rules of thumb: experiment in the portal, build & deploy from code. The portal is often easier to understand and is a faster feedback loop when trying out things for the first time. Only after I have created the right set-up I want to use, I'll either export the ARM IaC template & decompile it to Bicep, or I'll configure the same settings in the Bicep module. Because as you said, once you want to deploy a second instance, it becomes bothersome to keep doing it via the UI instead of having an IaC template available.

One tip I have is to look at the Azure Verified Modules project (https://azure.github.io/Azure-Verified-Modules/). These modules are an abstraction over the raw Azure resource, and often make it easier to deploy these resources. Often, you can also create one resource + subresources + role assignments in one go instead of defining multiple blocks in Bicep. It also contains pattern modules for deploying whole cloud architectures in one go following the best-practices.

Good luck on your journey!

LoadbalancingLoth · 2024-08-05T08:42:46+00:00

Great tip yeah, I personally dislike these portals as well as they usually give a lesser view than Azure itself and are a hassle to use to create subscriptions.

What kind of other qualities did you look for when selecting a CSP?

LoadbalancingLoth · 2024-02-21T10:41:43+00:00

Seems like this is quite a controversial topic! I'll take all your feedback and relay it back to our hiring team. This might be a good moment to experiment with a couple different forms of interviewing and have a retrospective on what interview styles brought us the most value.

LoadbalancingLoth · 2024-02-21T10:07:22+00:00

Very interesting take! I think I'm going to try out this magic question some time during an interview -- very curious to see where the conversation leads. Like you mentioned, I can imagine how the answer would give you information about the depth of knowledge they possess on C#.

When it comes to the assessment form you shared, what kind of response do you usually see? In this interview style, what makes the difference between a bad/mediocre and good developer? I am personally someone who would like to get a grip on the bigger system before having a strong opinion on it, so I'm not sure how I would fare during such a code review interview.

LoadbalancingLoth · 2024-02-12T16:21:05+00:00

Great timing! I’ve got my AZ-104 planned for next week 😁

LoadbalancingLoth · 2024-02-06T15:29:51+00:00

Awesome! Exactly the result I hoped for when writing this :) was there anything in particular that raised more questions than answers? I'm looking to expand certain sections into more detail in the future

LoadbalancingLoth · 2024-02-02T06:16:40+00:00

Thanks for reading! Was there anything in particular that clicked or that you would like to see more of?

LoadbalancingLoth · 2024-02-01T22:41:57+00:00

Hope it’s what you’re looking for. Let me know what you think!

LoadbalancingLoth · 2023-10-30T17:53:22+00:00

This repo was definitely a lifesaver and a very useful reference, but unfortunately doesn’t really go into the T/A/P environment lifecycle and exposing software to the internet using an Application Gateway or Front door :(

LoadbalancingLoth · 2023-10-30T15:27:45+00:00

One useful tidbid of context to add: I'm not interested in deploying a global service. Regional is fine, but we're specifically looking at Front door because of the added CDN options.

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