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HashiCorp Terraform

HashiCorp Terraform is an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool to help you more reliably deploy and manage infrastructure deployments across one or more clouds, or even on-premise. As with all IaC tools, Terraform allows you to write code that is used to build, change, and version your infrastructure deployments in a reliable and efficient manner.

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate DevOps / SRE Certification

by Chris Pietschmann | Nov 30, 2021

The popularity of HashiCorp Terraform has really taken off in the last couple of years. Terraform has become an extremely popular tool for writing...

Terraform: Create an AKS Cluster

by Jim Counts | Nov 3, 2020

While there are several ways to host container workloads in Azure, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) provides the easiest way to deploy Kubernetes for...

Use Terraform Input Variables to Parameterize Infrastructure Deployments

by Chris Pietschmann | Oct 5, 2020

Now that we've gone through an introduction to Terraform, let's take a look at parameterizing our deployments using Terraform Input Variables. Input...

Terraform AzureRM Provider v2.30.0 Released

by Chris Pietschmann | Oct 4, 2020

The Terraform Azure (azurerm) Provider can be used to configure infrastructure in Microsoft Azure. The v2.30.20 release of the azurerm Terraform...

MVPs Dan Patrick and Kevin Bost to live stream Terraform

by Dan Patrick | Oct 4, 2020

Earlier this year, we introduced a new series called Az Kung Fu, and to build on that Build5Nines is adding Terraform to this project. I'm excited...

Terraform updates to version 0.13.4

by Dan Patrick | Oct 2, 2020

Hashicorp releases drops of Terraform a regular basis, and September was no exception providing three updates. On September 30th, 0.13.4 was...

Terraform Feature Flags & Environment Toggle Design Patterns

by Chris Pietschmann | Aug 28, 2020

Terraform offers lots of flexibility in coding Infrastructure as Code (IaC) deployments. Using Feature Flags and Environment Toggles can help in...

Azure Cloud Shell Tips and Tricks

by Chris Pietschmann | Aug 1, 2020

The Azure Cloud Shell offers the ability to manage cloud resources, virtual machines, run scripts and other tasks directly from within the browser...

Terraform: Create Azure IoT Hub and Device Provisioning Service (DPS)

by Chris Pietschmann | Jul 24, 2020

At the core of any Internet of Things (IoT) solution built with Microsoft Azure is the need to connect IoT devices to the cloud and send/retrieve...

Get Started with Terraform on Azure

by Chris Pietschmann | Jul 19, 2020

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.