🔥Let’s Do DevOps: Ingesting 100s of Thousands of Records into Terraform for Fun and Profit 🚀

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Hey all!

It’s been a while — I’ve been busy with life, and chasing a 2-year-old toddler around the house takes up a lot of time and generates a lot of snuggles.

Recently, at work I was tasked with helping establishing geo-blocking and geo-permitting for some Azure Firewalls. Unlike Azure Application Gateways, they don’t have native support for geo-based location policies, so we needed to find a list of country-specific IPs.

I was sure that finding that data would be as simple as querying IANA, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, for a specific country code, to get all the assigned IPs. Unfortunately, that data wasn’t as easy to get as I assumed it would be. However, our NetOps team was way ahead of me here, and was able to get that working.

MaxMind For Global Domination

This article waswritten by Shannon Ford, an incredibly talented Network and DevOps engineer I have the opportunity to work with. Without his…