Terraform: Create an AKS Cluster
While there are several ways to host container workloads in Azure, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) provides the easiest way to deploy Kubernetes for teams needing…
DevOps
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 CLI: Get Private Link Service Alias / DNS Name
Azure Private Link provides a way to be able to access resources sitting behind an Azure Load Balancer (such as Virtual Machines) to be accessed…
Create Azure Service Bus Namespaces using PowerShell cmdlets and Azure CLI 1.0
An Microsoft Azure Service Bus Namespace can certainly be managed through the Azure Management Portal. However easy that is for a user to do manually,…
Terraform: Overview of Azure Providers and Tools
HashiCorp Terraform is a great Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool that helps you deploy and manage IT Resources using declarative code written in HCL (HashiCorp…
What is The HashiCorp Infrastructure Cloud?
The cloud is the standard for hosting applications and workloads. However, only a small percentage of organizations realize the full benefits such as cost reduction,…
Terraform: GitHub Actions Automated Deployment
HashiCorp Terraform infrastructure deployments can always be run manual, but using GitHub Actions to implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) can be used to…
What is Microservices Architecture?
What really is a Microservices Architecture? The term “Microservices” has become fairly popular in recent years, and has coincided largely with the increasingly popular move to…
Terraform: How to Join and Split Strings
HashiCorp Terraform, a versatile infrastructure-as-code tool, empowers users to define and provision infrastructure resources with a declarative configuration language. In Terraform, managing strings effectively is…
Nested VMs in Azure with one click? You must be crazy…
When I first heard that you could run nested VMs with Azure, I ran over to my laptop to deploy one of those shiny new…
DevOps Adoption for IT Managers
DevOps is a modern approach to software development and operations that emphasizes collaboration, automation, and continuous improvement. The goal of DevOps is to bring development…
Introduction to Azure Developer CLI: Accelerate App & Infrastructure Deployment on Microsoft Azure
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…
Analyzing IBM’s Acquisition of HashiCorp: A Game-Changer in Hybrid Cloud Management
IBM has announced its acquisition of HashiCorp Inc., a leading multi-cloud infrastructure automation company, for $6.4 billion! This acquisition is poised to revolutionize the hybrid…
Azure Bicep: Create IoT Hub and Device Provisioning Service (DPS)
All Azure IoT solutions are built starting with Azure IoT Hub as the cloud-base message broker for the Internet of Things (IoT) solution. This service…
Azure Bicep Roadmap Q4’20 into 2021
Microsoft recently released the first preview of the Azure Bicep project which provides a new, more intuitive language for building out infrastructure as code deployments…
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…
OpenTofu: Open Source Alternative to Terraform
In the world of cloud, hybrid, and on-premises Infrastructure as Code (IaC), where managing and provisioning infrastructure through code has become indispensable, tools like OpenTofu…
Terraform: Destroy Infrastructure
There are reasons when specific infrastructure is no longer needed. When that infrastructure is managed trough HashiCorp Terraform, the terraform destroy command can be used…
Terraform: Using CIDR Notation to Define IP Address Ranges and Subnet Address Spaces
Defining IP Address spaces using CIDR notation for network and subnets is a common task for network engineers, DevOps Engineers, and Site Reliability Engineers (SRE)…
Terraform: Output URL to Azure Portal for Azure Resources
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…
Terraform: Convert List to String (join function)
HashiCorp Terraform is a versatile infrastructure-as-code tool that empowers users to define and provision infrastructure resources with ease using a declarative configuration language. While Terraform…