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Creating a Distributed Availability Group in Azure via Terraform

Published 2021-09-17 by Kevin Feasel

Sandeep Arora has some scripts for us:

To create a distributed availability group, you need two availability groups (AG) each with its own listener, which you then combine.In this case, one availability group is on-premises and the other needs to be created in Microsoft Azure. This example doesn’t cover all of the details like creating an extended network setup between on-premises network and Azure or joining Azure active directory domain services to and on-premises forest; instead, it highlights the key requirements for setting up the availability group in Azure and then configuring the distributed AG between the on-premises availability group (represented as AOAG-1) and the Azure availability group (represented as AOAG-2).

Click through for the preparations you need in place and a set of scripts to do the work.

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Azure DevOps Templates for Data Platform Deployments

Published 2021-09-15 by Kevin Feasel

Kevin Chant has some toys for us:

For my T-SQL Tuesday contribution this month is I want to introduce my Azure DevOps templates for Data Platform deployments.

This months T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Frank Geisler. Frank has invited us to write about deploying SQL components through descriptive methods and build some new cool templates for them.

Which is good timing for me, because I co-presented a session on the day this post is published. I showed how to use YAML in Azure DevOps for Data Platform deployments at Data Platform Virtual Summit. .

Click through to learn more and see Kevin’s repos, as well as more information on the topic.

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Building a Deployment Pipeline with sqlpackage

Published 2021-09-10 by Kevin Feasel

Daniel Hutmacher builds a cloudless deployment pipeline:

I did some googling to see just how simple I could make a database deployment pipeline. I keep the DDL scripts in a git repository on the local network, but I can’t use Azure DevOps or any other cloud service, and I don’t have Visual Studio installed, so the traditional database project in SSDT that I know and love is unfortunately not an option for me.

So I googled a little, and here’s what I ended up doing.

Click through to see how Daniel was able to do it.

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Deploying SQL Server via Ansible

Published 2021-07-29 by Kevin Feasel

Amit Khandelwal gives us another way of deploying SQL Server on Linux:

Today, we’ll look at how to automate SQL Server deployment and configuration on Linux. To automate our deployment, we will use the Ansible system role, which is available here.

Note: The Ansible system role that I use in this blog is a sample system role that is provided as is and for reference only. Microsoft and RedHat do not support this. However, I invite you to provide feedback and suggestions for improving the system role here: Issues linux-system-roles/mssql (github.com).

Read on for the instructions and a demonstration.

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Deploying Azure Policies via Terraform

Published 2021-07-27 by Kevin Feasel

Jonathan D’Aloia shows how you can use Terraform to work with Azure Policies:

As you may all know Terraform serves a great purpose in deploying resources and infrastructure into your Azure environment, however, Terraform can also be used to automate and consistently deploy Azure Policies which can be defined prior to any resources being generated. In this blog, I will cover how you can import policies into your Terraform State to then deploy into an Azure Resource Group in order to secure your landing zone prior to deploying any resources.

Click through for an example.

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Content Sharing with Power BI

Published 2021-07-22 by Kevin Feasel

Marc Lelijveld continues a series on going from small-scale to enterprise with Power BI:

Let’s start with the most important feature of the Power BI Service, sharing content! At the same time, this can be one of the most challenging ones. Especially since there are many ways to share content in Power BI. In my experience in enterprise organizations, I have seen a various ways of sharing content. Below I explain the different options there are, leading to a conclusion of my personal best practice.

But why is the way how we share content so important in relation to large enterprise solutions? Well, I believe that all centrally managed solutions should match (organizational) best practices. The way how the content is made available to the users is one of these best practices. It will help end users to find the content they are looking for, always at the same consistent location.

Read on for several techniques.

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Data Platform Deployments via Azure Test Plan

Published 2021-07-22 by Kevin Feasel

Kevin Chant shows off the power of Azure Test Plans:

In this post I want to cover using Azure Test Plans for Data Platform deployments. Because using it to manage test plans can be very useful.

By the end of this post, you will know what Azure Test Plans are and how they can be useful for data Platform deployments.

Click through to see how this feature in Azure DevOps works and how you can use it to test your deployments.

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Renaming a YAML Pipeline in Azure DevOps

Published 2021-07-15 by Kevin Feasel

Hamish Watson figures out what’s in a name:

I had created a pipeline using YAML – which was called InfrastructureAsCode as the YAMP file was in the root directory.

However I wanted to move it into a folder .\InfrastructureAsCode\pipelines\… and run the YAML file from there – as I would have a non-prod and PROD version of them (as the schedule was different for each).

Click through to see how Hamish was able to resolve this.

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Creating a dacpac for a Dedicated SQL Pool

Published 2021-06-10 by Kevin Feasel

Kevin Chant shows how to use Azure DevOps to create a dacpac for an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool:

By the end of this post, you will know how to create a dacpac for a dedicated SQL Pool within Azure Pipelines for your CI/CD deployments. Plus, how you can synchronize a database project created in Azure Data Studio with a Git repository in Azure DevOps.

In a previous post I covered how you can create a dacpac for an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL Pool using Azure Data Studio. In that post I stated that you could create a dacpac for the database project using Azure DevOps.

With this in mind, I will use the same database project that I created in that post.

Click through for the process.

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