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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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Build5Nines Weekly – January 30, 2023
Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build5Nines...
Get Started with Terraform on Azure
One of the technologies that has come around through the DevOps movement of increased communication and cooperation between the Development and Operations teams has been Infrastructure as Code (IaC). These are technologies that DevOps Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) have been adopting to build the latest technique of infrastructure automation in the cloud. Microsoft Azure natively supports ARM Templates for implementing IaC, but that’s an Azure specific technology.
Terraform: Deploy to Multiple AWS Accounts in Single Project
Generally, when using HashiCorp Terraform to deploy and manage Amazon AWS resources, the Terraform project will be working with AWS resources in...
Terraform: Code Project Organization Strategies (based on team, workload, or monolithic)
It's easy to get started writing HashiCorp Terraform code to deploy and manage the infrastructure as code (IaC) for a single project, or even the...
Terraform: Import Existing Azure Resource Group
If you find yourself with an existing Azure Resource Group that you need to import into a Terraform project, you can use the terraform import...
Best Practices: 7 Key Benefits of Automated Infrastructure Deployment
The automation of infrastructure deployments through the use of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools has become a standard best practice in the...
Microsoft and OpenAI: Extended Partnership Announcement for ChatGPT, Azure, and more
Both Microsoft and OpenAI have announced they are extending on the 3 year partnership they already have to keep making advancements together around...
Build5Nines Weekly – January 22, 2023
Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build5Nines...
Create Linux VM in Microsoft Azure
There are many reasons to create a Linux Virtual Machine (VM) in Azure; like hosting a web server, database, or many other uses for VMs. It's...
Azure Bicep: If/Else Conditional Resource and Module Deployment
Azure Bicep has an inline If/Else conditional expression that can be used to conditionally provision an Azure Resource or even a full Azure Bicep...
Comparison: Terraform vs Azure Bicep
HashiCorp Terraform and Azure Bicep are both declarative Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools for provisioning and managing infrastructure in the...
Terraform: Destroy Infrastructure
There are reasons when specific infrastructure is no longer needed. When that infrastructure is managed trough HashiCorp Terraform, the terraform...
What is a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)?
A Site Reliability Engineer, or SRE, is an engineering discipline that focuses on the availability, performance, and reliability of systems and...
How to become a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
To be a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), it is helpful to have a strong background as either an IT Pro or Developer. Knowledge of programming...
Exam AZ-220: Microsoft Azure IoT Developer Specialty Certification
The Microsoft Azure IoT Developer certification exam (AZ-220) tests and validates your expertise as an Azure Internet of Things (IoT) Developer....
Install Terraform on Windows for use in Command Prompt and PowerShell
Terraform from HashiCorp is provided as a command-line tool that must first be installed before it can be used. It's provided as a single executable...
Build5Nines Weekly – January 10, 2023
Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build5Nines...
Future Benefits of using AI as a Site Reliability Engineer with insight from ChatGPT
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to greatly assist Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), or even DevOps Engineers, in a number of ways....
Terraform: Import Existing Azure Resources into State (.tfstate)
The way HashiCorp Terraform keeps track of resources that are managed via the Terraform code is through the use the Terraform State (.tfstate) file....
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