Solving 429 http error using terraform on Azure Management API
When adding more resources to my azurerm terraform project, I encountered some concurrency problems. Terraform sends to many concurrent requests to azure. The Azure API gives a 429 http error. The fast solution is just to rerun your terraform apply, but that will not work in an automated environment (Infrastructure as Code). In this blog post I’ll show the error and what you can do to avoid it.
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Terraform is able to generate graph files in dot (graph description language) format from your deployment plan. With some tooling the dot files be generated into image files. This makes reviewing and talking about Terraform templates easier. You are able to review a visual graph before deployment.
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Running Azure PowerShell commands in parallel to speed up your deployments
Making better software starts with shortening the time it takes to get feedback. The less time between you start an action and its result, the bigger the chance you will do anything with the feedback. Faster is better!
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Removing deployments with Powershell to solve the ‘DeploymentQuotaExceeded’ error in Azure.
For some time we have been using Visual Studio Team Services Release Manager for our continuous deployments to Azure. Today our Continuous Deployments to Azure Resource Manager came to a halt with the following error:
[error]DeploymentQuotaExceeded: Creating the deployment 'deployModule-0408-0956' would exceed the quota of '800'. The current deployment count is '800', please delete some deployments before creating a new one. Please see http://aka.ms/arm-deploy for usage details.
Unfortunately we had to find out what was going on, before we could do any new deployments. This was very time consuming, because there were only two google hits on the error. They where not very helpful in solving the error.
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NuGet package to manage the SQL Server database version
In two projects I recently made a tool for managing the version of the SQL Server database manually. When writing almost the same utility code twice, there would be a third time. So I created a NuGet package to manage the SQL Server version. On start up it checks the database version and then run any upgrade scripts if needed. It also ensures the scripts run only once.
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