Microsoft Azure offers a variety of services to help automate and optimize the management and compliance of your resources in the cloud. This includes Microsoft Purview, Azure Portal, Cloud Shell, Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Policy, Azure Monitor, and more!
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Managing Azure regions in Terraform sounds simple at first. You define a location variable, pass in something like eastus, and move on. That works fine for a small…
Microsoft Azure resource naming conventions are one of those “small” DevOps and cloud infrastructure management disciplines that quietly determine whether your cloud estate stays governable…
I am excited to announce the release of my new book, Build and Deploy Apps using Azure Developer CLI, a practical, hands-on guide for developers and…
Imagine this: your application goes down in a major Azure region outage. DNS traffic shifts to the secondary region as designed. Terraform kicks off to…
Naming resources in Azure shouldn’t feel like deciphering ancient hieroglyphics. Yet, without a solid standard, names can quickly become inconsistent, confusing, and downright chaotic. The…
When your team loses control of its Terraform state file, it loses control of everything in the subscription. An unencrypted or publicly exposed .tfstate isn’t…
Microsoft Azure imposes limits and quotas on how many resources of each type you can provision per Azure Subscription, and even per Azure Region. Some…
This Microsoft Azure Regions Interactive Map shows the locations of each of the Microsoft Azure cloud regions plotted on a map. The map code is…
As developers and organizations increasingly adopt cloud solutions, streamlining the deployment of applications and infrastructure becomes a critical part of achieving efficiency and scalability. Microsoft’s…
During Microsoft Ignite 2024, Microsoft announced the public preview of AI Shell, a groundbreaking innovation that integrates artificial intelligence directly into command-line workflows. With this…
Microsoft Copilot for Azure is an AI-powered tool designed to enhance your efficiency and productivity when working with Azure. Leveraging advanced Large Language Models (LLMs)…
HashiCorp Terraform is an extremely powerful IaC tool for managing Microsoft Azure infrastructure through code, from the command-line, and from CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions…
The AzAPI Terraform provider for Microsoft Azure has introduced a feature known as dynamic properties. This feature simplifies resource definitions by enabling the use of…
Microsoft Copilot for Azure, the innovative AI companion that is revolutionizing the way we interact with cloud infrastructure and services. In the ever-evolving landscape of…
All resources within Microsoft Azure are created within an Azure Resource Group. While every resource has an Azure Region (aka location) specified as to where…
In the Microsoft Azure cloud, the organization and management of resources are extremely important for operational efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Azure Tags serve as a fundamental…
Azure CLI is a powerful tool for managing Azure resources from the command line. It enables developers and system administrators to perform a wide range…
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.
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…
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…
