So you've been learning and practicing deploying infrastructure with Terraform. Initially, you might not worry about your state file being local on your system. However, as you start deploying resources for real environments, you might…
One criticism of Azure ARM templates is the requirement that you manually create resource dependencies. This process can be tedious and frustrating for new administrators learning the language. But you're in luck! Terraform manages these…
Are you incorporating Terraform for managing cloud infrastructure? Maybe you have existing resources you want to manage under Terraform. This means you need to use Terraform import, and this article will show you how to…
In a previous article, you already learned how to use ARM template copy functionality to perform dynamic Azure deployments. One example demonstrated how to deploy multiple data disks to a virtual machine using the copy…
While Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates have complex syntax, it is also mighty. Instead of copying and pasting the same code to create a resource, you can use the copy loop functionality instead. Copy loops…
Are you working with GitHub repositories but tired of typing in your username and personal access token each time you clone or push changes? You need to use SSH authentication! Using the SSH protocol, you…
A Cloud Guru Associate Community Training Architect Gwyneth Pena-Siguenza recently launched the #CloudGuruChallenge: Your resume in Azure challenge. The challenge is to create an online version of your resume in Azure to build your cloud skills. Gwyn talks more…
In the last post in this series, I cover using GitHub Actions to update the website content out in the storage account automatically. I also include updating the function code and settings for the visitor…
In the next part of this series, I wrote the Azure Function to update the visitor counter in a Cosmos DB. I also added JavaScript to the website to call the Azure Function and display…
Have you been working with Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates but found the JSON syntax difficult to work with? Do you have some awesome PowerShell skills that you'd like to put to use? Look no…
