In medium and big enterprises, it’s common for a customer’s request to pass through many departments before being delivered as a good or service. For this reason, it’s tough for a single person to understand well enough to describe the complete flow in detail. This lack of understanding results in…

Since its release in 2013, Docker has been a renowned player in containerization. Thanks to its simplicity, companies like Lyft, Spotify, Yelp, ING, Uber, and PayPal decided to use Docker in their projects. However, the networking under these containers is still magic for many software developers. For this reason, in…

As more organizations are transitioning to Infrastructure as Code tools to define and deploy their infrastructure on cloud environments, and as the number of cyberattacks has increased by 125% just through 2021, it has become mandatory to begin efforts on security from the start by shifting security left in the…

With the increase in companies allowing remote work, you might want to work from a location other from your home. However, this might not be allowed due to a company policy or even tax regulations. In this article, I’m going to show you how to hide your location, setting up…

Dedicating and entire virtual machine (VM) to an agent might be costly and give you control on a lot of layers that you do not care about. For example, you need to keep the operating system (OS) up-to-date. To reduce costs and operational efforts, we can configure an Azure Container…

Since the beginning of the COVID-19, many businesses have had to quickly find new ways to allow their employees to work remotely by developing new applications to help their workers continue their daily duties and be productive. This business needs lead to an increase in the demand for the Microsoft…

In my previous article, we provisioned and configured all the resources needed to implement our flow. In today’s article, I will guide you through implementation of the GitHub branching strategy using GitHub branch protection rules. Then, I will show you how to implement a continuous integration workflow that will build…

This series of articles is all about implementing a zero-deployment strategy using GitHub and Azure. In this first article, we’re going to prepare the various components we will need throughout the series. We will create the Azure resources using Terraform, then configure our GitHub self-hosted runner.

A main focus of modern businesses is the ability to rapidly publish changes to the application and make them available to customers. To achieve this, many have adopted approaches, like continuous deployment, that remove eventual bottleneck represented by manual intervention by automating the entire release cycle, from build, to test…