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…
HashiCorp Terraform is a great Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool that helps you deploy and manage IT Resources using declarative code written in HCL (HashiCorp…
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…
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…
With Cybersecurity an extremely important aspect, and ever so increasing in importance, of any organization and their computer infrastructure and software solutions, Microsoft has introduced…
HashiCorp Terraform has an inline If/Else conditional expression that enables you to set parameters and variables programmatically based on the condition being evaluated. The syntax…
Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s scalable, fully managed, serverless NoSQL database as a service offering. The service provides a lot of really great features for…
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…
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…
