Terraform provides a greater ability to define Infrastructure as Code (IaC) through its support of Expressions. Expressions are lines of code that...
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Chris Pietschmann
Chris Pietschmann is a Microsoft MVP (Azure & IoT) and HashiCorp Ambassador (2021) with 20+ years of experience designing and building Cloud & Enterprise systems. He has worked with companies of all sizes from startups to Fortune 100. He is also a Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect and developer, a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), and Cloud Advocate. He has a passion for technology and sharing what he learns with others to help enable them to learn faster and be more productive.
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The Azure CLI is a command-line tool built to give a native CLI interface for working with Microsoft Azure resources. The Azure CLI itself will make...
Terraform Modules: Create Reusable Infrastructure as Code
Terraform, being an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool, enables you to write declarative code that is then used to provision and manage resources...
Build5Nines Weekly – August 5, 2022
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Instead of using username / password to authenticate with the Git (git) command-line when cloning repositories, Git supports the use of the more...
Terraform: Deploy to Multiple Azure Subscriptions in Single Project
In most Terraform projects you'll probably be deploying and managing Azure resources within a single Azure Subscription. However, it's common to...
Terraform: Overview of Azure Providers and Tools
HashiCorp Terraform is a great Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool that helps you deploy and manage IT Resources using declarative code written in HCL...
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In Microsoft Azure, you can assign Tags to Azure Resources to add additional metadata to them. This can be used to enhance the reporting of your...
Azure Resource Naming Conventions and Best Practices
One of the most difficult things in IT is naming things. The same goes for choosing the correct naming convention to use when naming cloud resources...
Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert
With Cybersecurity an extremely important aspect, and ever so increasing in importance, of any organization and their computer infrastructure and...
Build5Nines Weekly – July 29, 2022
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Terraform has an inline If/Else conditional expression that enables you to set parameters and variables programmatically based on the condition...
Top 10 Azure Cosmos DB Planned Features Coming Soon as of July 2022
Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft's scalable, fully managed, serverless NoSQL database as a service offering. The service provides a lot of really great...
What is the HashiCorp Ambassador Award?
HashiCorp, the company behind Terraform, Consul, and Vault, has a community recognition award they call "HashiCorp Ambassador." This award is given...
Setup Visual Studio 2022 Development VM in Microsoft Azure
Sure, you could always install Visual Studio 2022 on your local machine, but there are times when a quick, easy to provision Virtual Machine with...
Microsoft Azure: Brand Logo Evolution Over Time (2009 – Present)
There have been a few different logos used by Microsoft over the years for the Azure cloud platform; originally Windows Azure and later rebranded to...
Latest Cloud News: Let’s Get Back at This! (July 20, 2022 – Build5Nines Weekly)
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I recently worked on a project where I was required to write an Azure Function that would watch for newly stored files in Azure Blob Storage, copy...
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Recently, I performed a lot of work as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / DevOps Engineer on a project that utilizes Azure Synapse for a large data...
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