DevOps is a set of practices and cultural philosophies that integrate software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops) to enhance an organization’s ability to deliver applications and services more efficiently and reliably. By promoting collaboration, communication, and automation, DevOps aims to shorten the development lifecycle, improve deployment frequency, and ensure high quality in software releases. Key components of DevOps include continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), infrastructure as code (IaC), monitoring, and feedback loops. This approach fosters a collaborative environment where development and operations teams work together seamlessly to innovate rapidly, respond to market changes, and provide robust, scalable, and secure software solutions.
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Azure Private Link offers several benefits, including enhanced security, simplified network architecture, and improved performance. It supports various Azure services like Azure Storage and Azure…
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…
It can be extremely useful to use the Azure CLI to manage / manipulate your Azure resources from the command-line. However, many of the commands…
You can easily Start and Stop Virtual Machines (VMs) through the Azure Portal. Previously, I’ve written about the importance of Stopping unused VMs to save money…
In the current cloud-first world, where agility, automation, and scalability are required, there are few tools that have left as profound a mark on infrastructure…
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…
HashiCorp, the company behind Terraform, Consul, and Vault, has a community recognition award they call “HashiCorp Ambassador.” This award is given to individuals who have…
HashiCorp Terraform is a popular tool for managing infrastructure as code (IaC). By defining your IaC using Terraform, you can use version control with your…
Getting to know what Azure PowerShell cmdlets to use for different functions and provisioning services can be difficult to remember. However, just like standard PowerShell,…
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…
Security! Security! This is top of mind for everyone these days and Azure has many security features. Today we are going to explore the world…
If you are using the Microsoft-hosted Azure DevOps Build Agents, then you wont really have a reliable way to know what IP Address traffic from…
HashiCorp Terraform, an open-source Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool, enables easier infrastructure provisioning and management across all types of platforms. At the heart of Terraform’s…
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…
The Azure Developer CLI (azd) is a powerful tool for accelerating application deployment to Microsoft Azure. While azd defaults to Azure Bicep for Infrastructure as…
The Azure CLI can be updated from the command-line in Windows. The az upgrade command is used for this and it has a few options…
HashiCorp Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code (IaC) tool that enables organizations to manage, version, and automate the provisioning of their infrastructure. The purpose…
Now that we’ve gone through an introduction to Terraform, let’s take a look at parameterizing our deployments using Terraform Input Variables. Input Variables enable you…
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…
The Azure Cloud Shell has been out for some time now, as an embedded Bash and PowerShell command-line shell / terminal within the Azure Portal.…
