Microsoft Learn Applied Skills credentials are not replacing Microsoft Certifications. Microsoft is expanding their credentialing portfolio to cater better to learners and customers, allowing validation…
By combining Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with Generative AI, you can create a more intelligent and context aware AI solution that can more accurately generate…
Running jobs on specific branches with GitHub Actions is a common scenario implemented by DevOps and SRE professionals. This allows you to control which branches…
How to get the current branch name in GitHub Actions can be useful for workflows that trigger off of multiple branches of a GitHub repository.…
A few times I’ve found the need to setup a GitHub Actions workflow that downloads a file and commits that file back to the repository.…
Terraform provides functions to manage and manipulate IP addresses and CIDR blocks. These functions are crucial for network automation and orchestration in cloud environments, enabling…
The Terraform lookup() function provides a powerful feature that can be used to implement more flexible and easily configurable infrastructure configurations. The lookup() function is…
The ability to efficiently search and retrieve documents based on their semantic content has become increasingly important; especially when it comes to building Generative AI…
The Internet of Things (IoT) industry has continued to grow and become more pervasive in people’s everyday lives these last few years. There are MANY…
The functions built into and supported by HashiCorp Terraform include the yamldecode and yamlencode functions for working with YAML data. These functions enable seamless integration…
Microsoft Copilot is an advanced, Generative AI-powered assistant designed to enhance productivity by integrating with various Microsoft applications and services. It leverages large language models…
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…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is all the buzz today! But, what does LLM, SLM, Copilot, GPT, ML, NLP and all the other acronyms and terms in…
The Microsoft Phi-3 SLM (small language model) is an AI model that you can run locally or in your applications hosted almost anywhere. I’ve been…
A hub-and-spoke network topology is a popular design pattern used to manage and control network traffic when deploying enterprise workloads to Microsoft Azure. This article…
In the ever-evolving landscape of technology, the role of DevOps Engineers is becoming increasingly complex and critical. As organizations strive for higher reliability and performance,…
The AzAPI Terraform provider for Microsoft Azure has introduced a feature known as dynamic properties. This feature simplifies resource definitions by enabling the use of…
There are many times when scheduled triggers are very useful when configuring GitHub Actions workflows. Luckily, GitHub Actions supports the ability to configure scheduled triggers…
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…
