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"url": "https://thomasthornton.cloud/time-based-filtering-in-log-analytics-queries-with-examples/", "published_at": "2024-07-18T14:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df91-0a82-7046-923b-1908e69b4fcc", "title": "Step-by-Step Guide to Automate Log Analytics Reports with Azure Logic Apps to Blob Storage", "url": "https://thomasthornton.cloud/step-by-step-guide-to-automate-log-analytics-reports-with-azure-logic-apps-to-blob-storage/", "published_at": "2024-07-02T10:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df91-0a82-7046-923b-1908e70d1859", "title": "Adding comments to your GitHub Pull Requests using GitHub Actions", "url": "https://thomasthornton.cloud/adding-comments-to-your-github-pull-requests-using-github-actions/", "published_at": "2024-07-01T09:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df91-0a82-7046-923b-1908e74bda01", "title": "Step-by-Step to creating Azure Application Gateway for Containers using Terraform", "url": "https://thomasthornton.cloud/step-by-step-to-creating-azure-application-gateway-for-containers-using-terraform/", "published_at": "2024-05-28T12:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df91-0a82-7046-923b-1908e82e0138", "title": "Mitigating Prompt Injections with Azure AI Prompt Shields and Terraform Deployment", "url": "https://thomasthornton.cloud/mitigating-prompt-injections-with-azure-ai-prompt-shields-and-terraform-deployment/", "published_at": "2024-05-23T08:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df91-0a82-7046-923b-1908e86ade78", "title": "Boost GitHub Actions Efficiency with Path Filters: Only run when specific files or paths are updated", "url": "https://thomasthornton.cloud/boost-github-actions-efficiency-with-path-filters-only-run-when-specific-files-or-paths-are-updated/", "published_at": "2024-05-14T12:18:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df91-0a82-7046-923b-1908e8744932", "title": "Deploying MkDocs to GitHub Pages with GitHub Actions", "url": "https://thomasthornton.cloud/deploying-mkdocs-to-github-pages-with-github-actions/", "published_at": "2024-05-01T09:00:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df98-7846-72f0-a973-515119d35712", "title": "Using Terraform tfvars for environment-agnostic deployments", "url": "https://thomasthornton.cloud/using-terraform-tfvars-for-environment-agnostic-deployments/", "published_at": "2024-04-25T11:29:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df98-7846-72f0-a973-51511a8148ab", "title": "Update GitHub Pull Request Body using GitHub Actions", "url": "https://thomasthornton.cloud/update-github-pull-request-body-using-github-actions/", "published_at": "2024-04-18T12:53:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df98-7846-72f0-a973-51511b52cb91", "title": "Deploying a content filtering configuration in Azure OpenAI studio using Terraform and AzAPI", "url": "https://thomasthornton.cloud/deploying-a-content-filtering-configuration-in-azure-openai-studio-using-terraform-and-azapi/", "published_at": "2024-04-08T09:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df98-7846-72f0-a973-51511b8f37c2", "title": "Enabling PostgreSQL flexible server logs and configuring a retention period using Terraform", "url": "https://thomasthornton.cloud/enabling-postgresql-flexible-server-logs-and-configuring-a-retention-period-using-terraform/", "published_at": "2024-03-28T15:30:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df98-7846-72f0-a973-51511b990943", "title": "Scaling Terraform Deployments with GitHub Actions: Essential Configurations", "url": "https://thomasthornton.cloud/scaling-terraform-deployments-with-github-actions-essential-configurations/", "published_at": "2024-03-18T17:30:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df98-7846-72f0-a973-51511c2a749c", "title": "Ensuring Your Terraform is Correctly Formatted with Terraform fmt using GitHub Actions", "url": "https://thomasthornton.cloud/ensuring-your-terraform-is-correctly-formatted-using-terraform-fmt-and-github-actions/", "published_at": "2024-02-15T14:52:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df98-7846-72f0-a973-51511cd7d9f3", "title": "Enforcing Kubernetes best practices and simplifying Kubernetes Configuration Validation with Kube-Linter and GitHub Actions", "url": "https://thomasthornton.cloud/enforcing-kubernetes-best-practices-and-simplifying-kubernetes-configuration-validation-with-kube-linter-and-github-actions/", "published_at": "2024-01-31T17:07:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df98-7846-72f0-a973-51511d820784", "title": "GitHub Action error Resource not accessible by integration when attempting to upload SARIF report files to GitHub", "url": "https://thomasthornton.cloud/github-action-error-resource-not-accessible-by-integration-when-attempting-to-upload-sarif-report-files-to-github/", "published_at": "2024-01-31T09:32:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df98-7846-72f0-a973-51511e54ca8e", "title": "Displaying Terraform Plan as a comment in Azure DevOps Repo PRs with Azure DevOps Pipelines", "url": "https://thomasthornton.cloud/displaying-terraform-plan-as-a-comment-in-azure-devops-repo-prs-with-azure-devops-pipelines/", "published_at": "2024-01-24T13:53:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df98-7846-72f0-a973-51511eb2a777", "title": "Adding pull-request comments to Azure DevOps Repo from Azure DevOps Pipelines", "url": "https://thomasthornton.cloud/adding-pull-request-comments-to-azure-devops-repo-from-azure-devops-pipelines/", "published_at": "2024-01-18T13:35:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfa1-1e50-7167-9faf-c7afb2e11e38", "title": "Resolving steps.plan.outputs.* returns Empty Issue with hashicorp/setup-terraform@v3", "url": "https://thomasthornton.cloud/resolving-steps-plan-outputs-returns-empty-issue-with-hashicorp-setup-terraformv3/", "published_at": "2024-01-15T17:40:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfa1-1e50-7167-9faf-c7afb35ace80", "title": "Displaying Terraform Plans in GitHub PRs with GitHub Actions", "url": "https://thomasthornton.cloud/displaying-terraform-plans-in-github-prs-with-github-actions/", "published_at": "2024-01-11T11:50:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfa1-1e50-7167-9faf-c7afb3ed61e3", "title": "Resolving Terraform Error ApplicationGatewayInvalidPublicIpSku : Application Gateway SKU Mismatch with Public IP", "url": "https://thomasthornton.cloud/resolving-terraform-error-applicationgatewayinvalidpublicipsku-application-gateway-sku-mismatch-with-public-ip/", "published_at": "2023-12-12T14:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfa1-1e50-7167-9faf-c7afb45e0a8e", "title": "Deploying Azure AKS GitOps Flux extension with Terraform", "url": "https://thomasthornton.cloud/deploying-azure-aks-gitops-flux-extension-with-terraform/", "published_at": "2023-12-03T09:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfa1-1e50-7167-9faf-c7afb5154b16", "title": "Deploying Azure AKS with Application Gateway and Flux extension – An introduction to GitOps", "url": "https://thomasthornton.cloud/deploying-azure-aks-with-application-gateway-and-flux-extension-an-introduction-to-gitops/", "published_at": "2023-12-03T09:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfa1-1e50-7167-9faf-c7afb57a6879", "title": "GitHub Action seeing dockerfile but no additional files or folders in the same location", "url": "https://thomasthornton.cloud/github-action-seeing-dockerfile-but-no-additional-files-or-folders-in-the-same-location/", "published_at": "2023-11-30T17:08:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfa1-1e50-7167-9faf-c7afb59eeac7", "title": "Unlocking Manual Workflow Execution in GitHub Actions: A Quick Fix", "url": "https://thomasthornton.cloud/unlocking-manual-workflow-execution-in-github-actions-a-quick-fix/", "published_at": "2023-11-28T18:33:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfa1-1e50-7167-9faf-c7afb5bf0742", "title": "Setting up and using private endpoints in Azure with a storage account example in Terraform", "url": "https://thomasthornton.cloud/setting-up-and-using-private-endpoints-in-azure-with-a-storage-account-example-in-terraform/", "published_at": "2023-10-30T08:57:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfa1-1e50-7167-9faf-c7afb6a95e68", "title": "How to use If-Else in Terraform", "url": "https://thomasthornton.cloud/how-to-use-if-else-in-terraform/", "published_at": "2023-10-16T12:46:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfa1-1e50-7167-9faf-c7afb7006f84", "title": "Referencing Azure Key Vault Certificates in Terraform", "url": "https://thomasthornton.cloud/referencing-azure-key-vault-certificates-in-terraform/", "published_at": "2023-09-21T08:06:11+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

How to update a pull request comment from GitHub Actions instead of creating duplicatesoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2026
APIM Policy Patterns for AI Governance: Part 2 – Content Safety & Model Controloriginal ↗
1 Sept 2026
APIM Policy Patterns for AI Governance: Part 1 – Rate Limits, Token Quotas & Observabilityoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2026
From Azure Policy to APIM: Implementing Azure AI Guardrailsoriginal ↗
17 Aug 2026
Building an Azure AI Landing Zone Without Slowing Teams Downoriginal ↗
12 Aug 2026
AI-Assisted Engineering: Measure Outcomes, Not Activityoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2026
Drawio Agent Skilloriginal ↗
30 Jul 2026
Why agent skills need good descriptionsoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2026
HolmesGPT + Azure AI Foundry: A Quick Kubernetes Troubleshooting Demooriginal ↗
16 Jul 2026
Securing AI skill repositories with Nvidia SkillSpector and GitHub Actionsoriginal ↗
1 Jul 2026
AI Engineering Needs Platform Controlsoriginal ↗
23 Jun 2026
AI-Assisted Engineering Is Becoming a Platform Capabilityoriginal ↗
9 Jun 2026
Adding Animated Traffic Flows to Draw.io Diagrams with GitHub Copilot Agent Skillsoriginal ↗
3 Jun 2026
Keep GitHub Copilot Agent Skills Small and Focusedoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2026
Terraform Module Design Is the Hard Part – So I Built an Agent Skill for Itoriginal ↗
23 Apr 2026
The Real Value of GitHub Copilot Rubber Duckoriginal ↗
16 Apr 2026
What Makes a Good GitHub Copilot Agent Skill?original ↗
13 Apr 2026
Packaging GitHub Copilot Agents and Skills with Agent Package Manageroriginal ↗
2 Apr 2026
Creating Diagrams with an Excalidraw Agent Skill and Excalidraw MCPoriginal ↗
24 Mar 2026
Azure Pricing Skill for GitHub Copilot Using Azure MCPoriginal ↗
19 Mar 2026
AWS Diagram Agent Skill with Draw.io MCP original ↗
12 Mar 2026
Automating Terraform provider upgrades with GitHub Agentic Workflowsoriginal ↗
10 Mar 2026
Azure Diagram Agent Skill with Draw.io MCP original ↗
5 Mar 2026
Draw.io MCP for Diagram Generation: Why It’s Worth Usingoriginal ↗
2 Mar 2026
Why You Should Use GitHub Agentic Workflowsoriginal ↗
24 Feb 2026
Building Better Azure Terraform Modules with GitHub Copilot Agents and Skillsoriginal ↗
17 Feb 2026
Running GitHub Copilot SDK Inside GitHub Actionsoriginal ↗
12 Feb 2026
The Future of IaC: How AI Is Changing the Way We Buildoriginal ↗
29 Jan 2026
API Management – Disable Trusted Connectivity by March 2026original ↗
6 Jan 2026

2025

Git Rail Control: An Interactive Way To Learn Gitoriginal ↗
17 Dec 2025
Running HashiCorp’s Terraform MCP Server in GitHub Actionsoriginal ↗
2 Dec 2025
GitHub Universe 2025: A Front-Row Seat to the Future of Codingoriginal ↗
10 Nov 2025
My Experience with GitHub Agentic Workflowsoriginal ↗
4 Nov 2025
Cross-Tenant Azure API Management Authentication with Federated Credentials: A Complete Guideoriginal ↗
22 Oct 2025
Why You Should Use AI-Powered Terraform Plan Reviews in Your CI/CD Pipelineoriginal ↗
13 Oct 2025
Step‑by‑Step: Checking Out a Private Repository in GitHub Actionsoriginal ↗
3 Oct 2025
GitHub Copilot Custom Chat Modes: AI Personas that Match Your Needsoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2025
Using GitHub Models with your GitHub Workflowsoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2025
Docker MCP Toolkit: Hassle-Free Local Agentic AI with MCP Serversoriginal ↗
13 Aug 2025
Getting Started with GitHub Spark: From Thought to App Creationoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2025
Setting Up LiteLLM with Azure Databricks Serving Endpoints for Claude Codeoriginal ↗
30 Jul 2025
Why You Should Setup Terraform MCP Server with GitHub Copilotoriginal ↗
10 Jul 2025
GitHub Copilot Premium Requests Usage Dashboardoriginal ↗
7 Jul 2025
Solving the GitHub 403 Error: Why Your Push may be Blocked (and How I Fixed It)original ↗
30 Jun 2025
Why You Should Consider Using MCP servers with GitHub Copilotoriginal ↗
19 Jun 2025
GitHub Copilot Coding Agent: First Impressionsoriginal ↗
12 Jun 2025
Deploy Terraform to Azure with OIDC and GitHub Actionsoriginal ↗
15 May 2025
Ensuring Terraform State Security with Ephemeral Values and Write-Only Outputsoriginal ↗
24 Apr 2025
Why GitHub Copilot custom instructions matteroriginal ↗
16 Apr 2025
Backing Up Home Assistant to Azure Filesoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2025
Setting up Trivy in your GitHub Actionsoriginal ↗
18 Mar 2025
GitHub Actions Fix ‘Resource Not Accessible by Integration’original ↗
13 Mar 2025
Deploying to Azure: Secure Your GitHub Workflow with OIDCoriginal ↗
27 Feb 2025
Getting current date and time in Azure Logic Apps using utcnow()original ↗
21 Feb 2025
Autogenerating Terraform Documentation with terraform-docs and GitHub Actionsoriginal ↗
22 Jan 2025
Getting Started Using Terraform Tests with Azure exampleoriginal ↗
8 Jan 2025

2024

Summarising Teams Meeting Transcripts using Open AI and Pythonoriginal ↗
23 Dec 2024
Getting Started with Terraform Preconditionsoriginal ↗
3 Dec 2024
Improve Terraform Configurations with Variable Validationoriginal ↗
26 Nov 2024
AKS Preview API lifecycle – Script to check if deprecated API versions are being usedoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2024
Automating GitHub Project Management: Moving Issues to “Done” with GitHub Actions and CLIoriginal ↗
15 Nov 2024
Using GitHub CLI with GitHub Actions for GitHub Project automationoriginal ↗
14 Nov 2024
GitHub Universe 2024 – My Highlightsoriginal ↗
5 Nov 2024
Automating Logic App Deployments: From Designer to Terraformoriginal ↗
17 Oct 2024
Azure Logic App Consumption Plan Creation using Terraformoriginal ↗
10 Oct 2024
Using Terraform for Geo-Restore in Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Serveroriginal ↗
24 Sept 2024
Quick Fix: Resolving the ‘subscription_id is a required provider property’ Error in Terraformoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2024
Dynamic Matrices in GitHub Actionsoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2024
How to Create Dynamic Environment Variables in GitHub Actionsoriginal ↗
12 Sept 2024
How To Create A Virtual Environment in Pythonoriginal ↗
28 Aug 2024
AI Meets Development: An Overview of the AI Enhanced Platform (AEP)original ↗
22 Aug 2024
Step-by-Step Guide to Optimising Azure NSG Rules creation with Terraform: try Function and for_each Explainedoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2024
Dynamic Terraform Configurations with try and for_each Functionsoriginal ↗
22 Jul 2024
Time based filtering in Log Analytics queries with examplesoriginal ↗
18 Jul 2024
Step-by-Step Guide to Automate Log Analytics Reports with Azure Logic Apps to Blob Storageoriginal ↗
2 Jul 2024
Adding comments to your GitHub Pull Requests using GitHub Actionsoriginal ↗
1 Jul 2024
Step-by-Step to creating Azure Application Gateway for Containers using Terraformoriginal ↗
28 May 2024
Mitigating Prompt Injections with Azure AI Prompt Shields and Terraform Deploymentoriginal ↗
23 May 2024
Boost GitHub Actions Efficiency with Path Filters: Only run when specific files or paths are updatedoriginal ↗
14 May 2024
Deploying MkDocs to GitHub Pages with GitHub Actionsoriginal ↗
1 May 2024
Using Terraform tfvars for environment-agnostic deploymentsoriginal ↗
25 Apr 2024
Update GitHub Pull Request Body using GitHub Actionsoriginal ↗
18 Apr 2024
Deploying a content filtering configuration in Azure OpenAI studio using Terraform and AzAPIoriginal ↗
8 Apr 2024
Enabling PostgreSQL flexible server logs and configuring a retention period using Terraformoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2024
Scaling Terraform Deployments with GitHub Actions: Essential Configurationsoriginal ↗
18 Mar 2024
Ensuring Your Terraform is Correctly Formatted with Terraform fmt using GitHub Actionsoriginal ↗
15 Feb 2024
Enforcing Kubernetes best practices and simplifying Kubernetes Configuration Validation with Kube-Linter and GitHub Actionsoriginal ↗
31 Jan 2024
GitHub Action error Resource not accessible by integration when attempting to upload SARIF report files to GitHuboriginal ↗
31 Jan 2024
Displaying Terraform Plan as a comment in Azure DevOps Repo PRs with Azure DevOps Pipelinesoriginal ↗
24 Jan 2024
Adding pull-request comments to Azure DevOps Repo from Azure DevOps Pipelinesoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2024
Resolving steps.plan.outputs.* returns Empty Issue with hashicorp/setup-terraform@v3original ↗
15 Jan 2024
Displaying Terraform Plans in GitHub PRs with GitHub Actionsoriginal ↗
11 Jan 2024

2023

Resolving Terraform Error ApplicationGatewayInvalidPublicIpSku : Application Gateway SKU Mismatch with Public IPoriginal ↗
12 Dec 2023
Deploying Azure AKS GitOps Flux extension with Terraformoriginal ↗
3 Dec 2023
Deploying Azure AKS with Application Gateway and Flux extension – An introduction to GitOpsoriginal ↗
3 Dec 2023
GitHub Action seeing dockerfile but no additional files or folders in the same locationoriginal ↗
30 Nov 2023
Unlocking Manual Workflow Execution in GitHub Actions: A Quick Fixoriginal ↗
28 Nov 2023
Setting up and using private endpoints in Azure with a storage account example in Terraformoriginal ↗
30 Oct 2023
How to use If-Else in Terraformoriginal ↗
16 Oct 2023
Referencing Azure Key Vault Certificates in Terraformoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2023
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