Organizations across the world are dedicated to minimizing their IT carbon footprint, driving a more sustainable future by prioritizing efficiency and cost optimization. Cloud sustainability goes beyond merely lowering the environmental impact of cloud usage; it involves making informed business decisions that align with corporate values, meet regulatory standards, and support long-term business objectives. Accurate […]
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Terraform AzAPI Provider
You all know that Terraform is one of the leading infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools, allows you to manage and implement cloud resources across various platforms, including Azure. While Terraform’s native Azure Provider (azurerm) is great for most all use cases, the AzAPI Provider introduces a more granular and direct way to manage Azure resources, especially when […]
Automating Azure Backups Assignment of Azure VMs with Azure Policy and Tag
Managing backups for virtual machines (VMs) in the cloud is crucial for ensuring data security and continuity. Manually configuring backups for each VM can be time-consuming and error-prone. Thankfully, Azure Policy provides a powerful way to automate and enforce backup configurations. In this guide, I’ll walk through how to automatically configure Azure VM backups using […]
Azure Log Analytics Tables
Azure Log Analytics is an essential tool in the Azure ecosystem, designed to help you gather, analyze, and act on data from both cloud and on-premises environments. At the heart of Azure Log Analytics are tables—where all collected data is stored. Knowing how these tables work, their structure, and how to use them effectively can […]
Azure Virtual Network Encryption
Azure Virtual Network encryption is a feature in Azure Virtual Networks that lets you easily secure the data exchanged between Azure Virtual Machines by creating a DTLS tunnel. This feature allows you to encrypt traffic between Virtual Machines and Virtual Machine Scale Sets within the same virtual network. It also secures traffic between virtual networks […]
Modular Approach in Terraform
Introduction: Terraform, an open-source infrastructure as code (IaaC) tool by HashiCorp, allows you to define and provision infrastructure using a high-level configuration language. As cloud environments grow increasingly complex, managing Terraform codebases can become a challenge. This is where the modular approach comes in a method of structuring your Terraform code that promotes reusability, maintainability, […]
Azure Landing Zone
An Azure Landing Zone is a pre-configured, scalable, and secure environment in Azure that serves as a foundation for cloud workloads. It embodies a set of architectural guidelines and design patterns tailored to meet the specific needs of organizations as they adopt Azure at scale. A well-architected landing zone ensures that your environment is secure, […]