Each week I hope to get a few things accomplished and maybe write about something new or interesting that I’ve learned or done. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This week saw a highly visible project get the green light from above and off to the races we went. Working with a colleague, we began designing a way to connect pieces of our Azure network to a third-party SaaS product securely via VPN. Once our virtual whiteboarding session was complete it was time for me to whip out my favorite tool: Visio!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With an agreed upon diagram, the learning was taking the components of the solution and deploy through code. Sure, click-ops is easy and sometimes quick, but the problem is that unless you take screenshots or document your process somewhere you’ll forget exactly how <\/em>you deployed a thing. If you have source code to fall back on, you’ll know precisely what was deployed, and how (plus, you can scale it far easier through code).<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this case, within the span of about 48 hours, I taught myself how to build\/deploy an Azure Virtual Network Gateway, Local Network Gateway, and the VPN Connector resources through code (well, bicep <\/a>really). I even learned how to pull a secret from a Keyvault<\/a> to inject in the bicep deployment template. I’ll need to do a bit more thinking on how to share \/ post code snippets here. Remember, I’m not a blogger! I’ll get there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n #CrawlWalkRun<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Each week I hope to get a few things accomplished and maybe write about something new or interesting that I’ve learned or done. This week saw a highly visible project […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,7],"tags":[10,11,9,14,16,12,15],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-azure","category-bicep","category-week-ending","tag-azure","tag-bicep","tag-key-vault","tag-learning","tag-local-network-gateway","tag-secrets","tag-virtual-network-gateway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dumpsterfirecomputing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dumpsterfirecomputing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dumpsterfirecomputing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dumpsterfirecomputing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dumpsterfirecomputing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dumpsterfirecomputing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/www.dumpsterfirecomputing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dumpsterfirecomputing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dumpsterfirecomputing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dumpsterfirecomputing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}