Terraform: Import Existing Infrastructure
The popular HashiCorp Terraform, open-source, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool, empowers DevOps and SRE teams to manage and provision resources more efficiently. One of Terraform’s…
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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 PowerShell Az: List and Set Azure Subscription
Using the Azure PowerShell Az commands to select and list the Azure Subscriptions to run commands against are important tasks when scripting and automating Azure.…
Software Innovation: HashiCorp Terraform Revolutionized Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
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…
Azure CLI 2.0: Make Bash Output More Readable
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…
Azure CLI: Call Azure REST API Directly
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: Get User Principal Name (UPN) of User Running Deployment without Entra ID Read Permissions
I has a scenario where I needed to configure an Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server to use Entra ID (Azure AD) authentication and add the Entra…
OpenAI’s Deep Research Agent: Automated Research and Analysis
OpenAI has recently unveiled “Deep Research,” an advanced AI agent designed to autonomously conduct comprehensive research by synthesizing vast amounts of online information and executing…
Upload File from URL to Azure Blob Storage using Azure CLI with Bash and PowerShell
The Azure CLI az storage blob upload command can be used to upload a local file into Azure Blob Storage. However, there are times when…
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…
Use Terraform Input Variables to Parameterize Infrastructure Deployments
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…
What is Infrastructure as Code? (IaC)
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a modern approach to managing and provisioning computing infrastructure through machine-readable configuration files, rather than through physical hardware configuration or…
Comparison: Terraform vs Azure Bicep
HashiCorp Terraform and Azure Bicep are both declarative Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools for provisioning and managing infrastructure in the Microsoft Azure cloud. While they…
Using Terraform String ‘replace’ Function for RegEx String Replacement
HashiCorp Terraform offers a lot of powerful functions that can be used for string manipulation within your Infrastructure as Code (IaC) projects. Among these functions…
Terraform + Azure Multi-Region Naming Convention across Azure Regions, Resources, and Terraform Modules
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…
Install Terraform on Windows for use in Command Prompt and PowerShell
Terraform from HashiCorp is provided as a command-line tool that must first be installed before it can be used. It’s provided as a single executable…
Terraform Functions and Expressions Explained
Functions in HashiCorp Terraform are integral to making your configurations flexible, efficient, and maintainable. They are pre-defined operations that can be used within expressions to…
Applying Terraform Changes to Specific Resources using the -target Argument
Managing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform is as common as CI/CD pipelines and incident response playbooks. However, there are moments when you don’t want…
Azure CLI Kung-Fu Tips and Tricks
The last week has been a blur because I didn’t sleep. I spent days helping a client restore every single VM that had running in…
Terraform Workflow Process Explained
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…
Azure PowerShell Cmdlet Naming Convention and Discoverability
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,…