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…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to greatly assist Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), or even DevOps Engineers, in a number of ways. Some potential applications…
The way HashiCorp Terraform keeps track of resources that are managed via the Terraform code is through the use the Terraform State (.tfstate) file. This…
It’s important to use plenty of great study materials when studying for that next Microsoft certification exam. There are many great paid resources available on…
Microsoft started shipping its Windows Dev Kit 2023 which is a new hardware device built for developers to use for developing, testing, and running Windows…
Terraform local values (aka locals) enable the creation of expressions or values that can be easily referenced within the Terraform project or Terraform module. Using…
There have been some in the community talking about new GitHub Certifications that are currently in a private beta available to Microsoft Partners (and maybe…
Azure Bastion is the more secure way to enable Remote Desktop (RDP) support for Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). Basically, an Azure Bastion host gets deployed…
Every Terraform project has external dependencies on code that does not exist within the project itself. These external dependencies rely on Terraform Providers and Modules…
The General Purpose Dpsv5 and Dplsv5 and Memory Optimized Epsv5 pricing tiers for Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) brings the ability to host Virtual Machine…
The Cloud Development Kit for Terraform (CDKTF) enables you to write Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using HashiCorp Terraform without the need to learn HCL (HashiCorp…
When working with Terraform on Azure to manage resources, there are times when it’s necessary to get a reference to an Azure Subscription. This could…
There are times when the best resource to use for learning code or even putting some techniques into practice is a simple, prewritten code sample.…
The AzAPI Terraform Provider for deploying and managing Microsoft Azure resources is a lightweight, “thin layer” provider built on top of the Azure ARM (Azure…
Microsoft offers the ability to create a direct, private connection between Azure data centers and infrastructure located on-premises or in a colocation with Azure ExpressRoute.…
Terraform provides a greater ability to define Infrastructure as Code (IaC) through its support of Expressions. Expressions are lines of code that define configuration and…
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…
Terraform, being an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool, enables you to write declarative code that is then used to provision and manage resources using providers…
Instead of using username / password to authenticate with the Git (git) command-line when cloning repositories, Git supports the use of the more secure option…
In most Terraform projects you’ll probably be deploying and managing Azure resources within a single Azure Subscription. However, it’s common to structure things across multiple…
