Writing — Trond Jakob Sjøvang

For the last 2-3 years I have been using Umami.is to track the tiny bit of website analytics I am interested in.

Once a year, a little less than 4000 Microsoft MVP's have minor breakdowns, on what some just call "F5 day" (because they are obsessively refreshing their inbox), while others barely notice something is going on until all kinds of group chats wake up from…

The week before easter I visited Microsoft's HQ in Redmond for the annual MVP Summit.

The client I’m currently spending most (all) of my working time with have a lot of Terraform code.

You might be unfamiliar with the word “colophon”, and I admit it’s pretty niche.

I was thinking about that Steve Jobs keynote from 2007 where Apple launched the iPhone this week.

During the Christmas break I crawled into the storage / datacenter / Harry Potter-esque bedroom under my stairs and retrieved an Intel Nuc that had been powered off for a year++, added an additional SSD, and installed Arch Linux to setup a small lab for l…

Before christmas holidays set in we had a feature request in my work life where owners of a landing zone in Azure wanted access to manage records in public dns.

When I last wrote about the new msgraph provider for Terraform my conclusion was that the preview release was not yet really usable, partly due to missing features.

Last month, in the middle of everyone's summer holidays, Microsoft released a new Terraform provider for the Graph API.

I have had a small itch for a while when using GitHub Actions to run Terraform deployments where I had no easy way to get a very quick overview of which resources that will be created, changed, or deleted if I approve and merge a pull request.

This week we kicked off the first of six events in our Atea Community tour and I am lucky enough to be asked to host a session again this year.

With irregular intervals I notice streaming providers, especially the ones that have paid wild amounts of money for broadcasting rights to the most valuable sports events, turn on their lobbying machine and produce variations of the same story: Don’t use…

Over the years I have, on numerous occasions, received questions from colleagues or customers if I could help them out with a bit of QA or tips on some Terraform code they have written.

It is somewhat of a trend of mine.

Using terraform-azurerm-caf-enterprise-scale and custom landing zone archetypes makes it easy to modify role assignments by using the access_control block under parameters.

A little while back I spent an hour or so writing an Azure policy, only to discover that the Azure landing zones Terraform module already has a policy definition that does exactly what I wanted to accomplish, but no assignments linked to it.

For some time I have reflected over the evolution of social media and their efforts to present me with content I am not interested in.

I believe most of us who works with Azure have felt the frustration of managing virtual networks as they grow in complexity.

Recently I spent a few (too many) hours to rebuild my personal website.

When I'm at home I have setup a Raspberry Pi to run [Pi-hole](https://pi-hole.net/) and block pesky advertising.

Earlier this summer Microsoft announced Static Website Hosting for Azure Storage in public preview.

The example use Cloudflare for DNS, but any provider with an ansible module works.