Comparing Azure Availability Zones & Availability Sets
Jeff BrownAzure provides many options for high availability and resilience in its services. Two such Azure features are availability zones and availability sets. In this article, you will learn about the…
PowerShell Tab Completion: The Ultimate Guide
Adding tab completion to your PowerShell parameters (or arguments) is a great way to enhance the user experience. You provide the user with possible values or build a dynamic list…
Avoiding Terraform For_Each Index Issues
Terraform can create multiple resources using the for_each argument. However, depending on your variable type or for_each syntax, Terraform can inadvertently destroy resources due to index issues. In this article,…
Terraform Heredoc & JsonEncode: Best Practices
Terraform continually introduces more functionality and improvements as the product progresses. While newer versions enable better ways of performing tasks, documentation and practices don't always catch up right away. One…
Manage Azure Policy using Terraform
Terraform is a popular Infrastructure as Code solution. Did you know that you can manage other Azure resources, such as policy definitions and assignments with Terraform? In this tutorial, you…
Azure Automation Hybrid Worker Groups: Getting Started Guide
In previous posts, you learned how to create your first Azure Automation PowerShell runbook and configure authentication to Azure resources. With these tools available, your next step is to expand…
Getting Started with Terraform in Azure
HashiCorp Terraform is an open-source Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool that enables deploying resources on-premises and to the cloud. You can build, modify, and version your environment using an efficient…
Azure Automation: Run As Account Tutorial
In a previous tutorial, you learned about creating your first Azure Automation PowerShell runbook. You set up an Azure Automation account, authored a PowerShell runbook, and incorporated parameters and variable…
Azure Automation: Creating a PowerShell Runbook
Azure Automation is a cloud-based automation and configuration service that you can use for process automation through runbooks. You can author runbooks using a graphical interface or in PowerShell or…
PowerShell 7 Ternary Operator: Introduction & Examples
PowerShell 7 introduced the ternary operator. The ternary operator is available in other programming languages, notably C#. The ternary operator can be confusing if you are unfamiliar with its syntax.…
