Configure Azure Virtual Desktop scheduled agent updates with Terraform

Configure Azure Virtual Desktop scheduled agent updates with Terraform

In the past you couldn’t control the update pattern of the AVD agent and Geneva monitoring agent installed on your session hosts. These updates were completely controlled by Microsoft in the past and you couldn’t modify this. With the new scheduled updates you have more control over the update schedule, so it doesn’t impact the…

Deploy an Azure virtual machine with Azure Disk Encryption using Terraform

Deploy an Azure virtual machine with Azure Disk Encryption using Terraform

Security is this modern world is very important. You need to make sure that your Azure environment is as secure as possible. Off course it’s not only the Azure environment you need to secure. If you have virtual machines running, you also need to secure them. One of the options you have to secure your…

Install applications using the Azure Compute Gallery

Install applications using the Azure Compute Gallery

Microsoft recently announced a new feature for the Azure Compute Gallery formerly known as the Shared image gallery. In the past you could only put images in the gallery to use in different regions. With the latest feature you can also publish and share applications and in multiple regions. For more info about the Azure…

Deploy Azure Firewall and rules for AVD with Terraform

Deploy Azure Firewall and rules for AVD with Terraform

Hello and welcome to another blogpost about AVD in combination with Terraform. In this blogpost I’m gonna deploy an Azure Firewall with Terraform and apply the networking rules for AVD. First of all we need a vnet for the AVD session hosts. I prefer to create a vnet for AVD and create multiple subnets per…

Configure Azure Virtual Desktop Autoscale feature with Terraform

Configure Azure Virtual Desktop Autoscale feature with Terraform

Hello and welcome to another blog about AVD and Terraform. We all know that the biggest cost for Azure Virtual Desktop is the virtual machine running cost. In the past we could enable autoscaling using an automation account and an Azure Logic App. Recently Microsoft announced the public preview of the Scaling Plan feature. This…