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Build5Nines Weekly – May 18, 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 Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past...
Terraform: Deploy Azure Storage Account and Blob Container
HashiCorp Terraform is a great tool for deploying and managing Microsoft Azure resource. This includes management of Azure Storage Accounts and Blob Containers. Azure Storage is one of the primary, foundational PaaS (Platform as a Service) services in Microsoft Azure...
Dangers of AI Hallucinations: How Wrong Answers Can Lead to Legal Liability and Mitigate Them
Artificial Intelligence (AI), like ChatGPT and others, is revolutionizing the way we work and live! From content generation, customer support chat bots, to predicting the future, AI is starting to show us the great potential of what it can help us achieve. However, as...
Build5Nines Weekly – April 18, 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 Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past...
Why HashiCorp Terraform is Essential for SREs and DevOps Engineers
As a DevOps Engineer or Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), managing cloud infrastructure deployments is a critical aspect of your daily activities. It is vital to use tools that automate the provisioning and configuration of cloud infrastructure to achieve efficient and...
Azure Cosmos DB Desktop Data Migration Tool v2.0
The Azure Cosmos DB Desktop Data Migration Tool is a command-line tool that provides data import and export capabilities for using with Azure Cosmos DB. The tool helps with both migrating data from several data sources into Azure Cosmos DB, as well as exporting data...
Build5Nines Weekly – March 27, 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 Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past...
Build5Nines Weekly – March 15, 2023
The Build5Nines Weekly newsletter is your source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure and related cloud news and community updates! The newsletter includes the latest blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the overall community...
Azure Pipeline: Publish Unit Test and Code Coverage Results with .NET 7 Solution using VSTest, Cobertura, and Coverlet
When setting up CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment) pipelines in Azure DevOps for .NET 7+ solutions, such as those using ASP.NET Core, it's important to setup an automated build. The automated build will need to use the dotnet CLI to build the...
Deploy Azure IoT Hub using Terraform DevOps Infrastructure Automation
HashiCorp Terraform is popular Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool used to automate infrastructure deployments. Terraform is great for deploying Microsoft Azure resources like Azure IoT Hub and other related resources when building IoT solutions using Microsoft Azure....
Top 5 Cloud Architecture Design Patterns to use in Microsoft Azure
When designing application architectures in the cloud, it's important to choose the correct architecture design patterns to ensure scalability, reliability, and performance. There is a very large list of architecture design patterns to choose from. This article,...
Terraform Best Practices for Writing Clean, Readable, and Maintainable Code
HashiCorp Terraform has become one of the most popular infrastructure as code (IaC) tools. Terraform allows you to define and manage your infrastructure deployments across one or multiple cloud providers through code. This makes it easier to manage, version, and...
Terraform State Management Explained
Terraform state management is extremely important with all Terraform projects. State management is the feature that allows you to manage, store, and retrieve the current state of the resources managed by your Terraform infrastructure as code (IaC) deployments. In this...
Build5Nines Weekly – March 6, 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 Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past...
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals Certification (AZ-900 Exam)
The AZ-900 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals certification exam tests and validates a candidates foundational knowledge of the cloud and Microsoft Azure. This exam is intended for anyone looking to validate their knowledge of the cloud and Microsoft Azure; from sales, to...
Terraform: Deploy Azure Function App with Consumption Plan
HashiCorp Terraform is great for deploying any Microsoft Azure resource, and the same applies to deploying serverless compute with Azure Function Apps in the Microsoft Azure cloud. Azure Function Apps are a very heavily used compute service in Microsoft Azure, and one...
Terraform: Store Backend State in Azure Storage Account
One of the things that HashiCorp Terraform requires to work is the ability to save and store the Terraform State Management (.tfstate) file. By default, the state management file is stored locally where the Terraform CLI is run. While this does provide the necessary...
How Adoption of ChatGPT Can Benefit Your Career in DevOps, SRE or Software Development
We are all looking to advance our careers and to find tips and tricks to help us get the leading edge in the industry. Technology certifications are a great way to to prove you have the expertise needed for the job. Sure, having expertise certainly helps when it comes...
Terraform: String Functions and Interpolation Explained
Various tasks working with strings in HashiCorp Terraform is the most common type of code written when writing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates. String interpolation specifically is something that is almost impossible to write Terraform code without. The...
Chris Pietschmann Awarded HashiCorp Ambassador – 2023
I have been recognized by HashiCorp due to my continued dedicated and commitment to helping the DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) community with being awarded the HashiCorp Ambassador award for 2023! Anyone who has been following Build5Nines knows that I've...