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!
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 deployment. But once you start building real enterprise-scale Azure environments, region...
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 at 50 resources—or collapses into entropy at 5,000 resources. In this article,...
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 teams who want to streamline cloud-native application deployments on Microsoft Azure using the Azure Developer CLI...
Imagine this: your application goes down in a major Azure region outage. DNS traffic shifts to the secondary region as designed. Terraform kicks off...
Naming resources in Azure shouldn’t feel like deciphering ancient hieroglyphics. Yet, without a solid standard, names can quickly become...
When your team loses control of its Terraform state file, it loses control of everything in the subscription. An unencrypted or publicly exposed...
Microsoft Azure imposes limits and quotas on how many resources of each type you can provision per Azure Subscription, and even per Azure Region....
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...
During Microsoft Ignite 2024, Microsoft announced the public preview of AI Shell, a groundbreaking innovation that integrates artificial...
Microsoft Copilot for Azure is an AI-powered tool designed to enhance your efficiency and productivity when working with Azure. Leveraging advanced...
HashiCorp Terraform is an extremely powerful IaC tool for managing Microsoft Azure infrastructure through code, from the command-line, and from...
The AzAPI Terraform provider for Microsoft Azure has introduced a feature known as dynamic properties. This feature simplifies resource definitions...
Microsoft Copilot for Azure, the innovative AI companion that is revolutionizing the way we interact with cloud infrastructure and services. In the...
All resources within Microsoft Azure are created within an Azure Resource Group. While every resource has an Azure Region (aka location) specified...
In the Microsoft Azure cloud, the organization and management of resources are extremely important for operational efficiency and...
Azure CLI is a powerful tool for managing Azure resources from the command line. It enables developers and system administrators to perform a wide...
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...
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 resources...