Configure a P2S VPN connection to your Azure Virtual Desktop Environment using Terraform

Configure a P2S VPN connection to your Azure Virtual Desktop Environment using Terraform

So you have an Azure Virtual Desktop environment and you need to check something on a session host. These machines don’t have a public ip address so you need a way of connecting to it on the private ip address. You can use Azure Bastion and connect through the Azure portal or with the native…

Deploy Azure Virtual Desktop Session Hosts across availability zones with Terraform

Deploy Azure Virtual Desktop Session Hosts across availability zones with Terraform

This week Tom Hickling shared the news that the host pool deployment now supports availability zones during the AVD deployment. this new feature will speed up the process of deploying your session hosts in for example the 3 availability zones of West Europe. For the people who want to read the official announcement click here.…

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…

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…