Terraform State Explained (Simply and Practically)
Terraform works because of one core concept that often gets misunderstood: state. Most tutorials mention it briefly,…
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Declarative vs Imperative: Why Terraform Works the Way It Does
When people first start learning Terraform, they often hear that it uses something called a declarative language….
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What is Terraform and Why is Everyone Using It?
If you work in cloud engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure, you’ve probably heard people talking about Terraform. It…
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Azure DDoS Protection with Terraform: What Actually Works (and What Doesn’t)
Azure DDoS Protection is one of those services that sounds simple on paper but becomes confusing once…
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Building an Azure Application Gateway with Terraform (A Simple, Practical Lab)
I recently put together a small but realistic lab to deploy an Azure Application Gateway using Terraform….
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Designing Azure ExpressRoute from Scratch: Part 5: Configuring ExpressRoute Peering
At this stage in the ExpressRoute journey, a lot of groundwork has already been done. Azure is…
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Designing Azure ExpressRoute from Scratch: Part 4: Creating the ExpressRoute Circuit
Up to this point in the ExpressRoute journey, everything we’ve built has lived entirely inside Azure. That…
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Designing Azure ExpressRoute from Scratch: Part 3: Preparing Azure to Accept an ExpressRoute Connection
In the previous part of this series, we decided why an organisation needs ExpressRoute and what kind…
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Designing Azure ExpressRoute from Scratch: Part 2: Choosing What You Actually Need
Now that we understand why an organisation would consider ExpressRoute in the first place (private, reliable connectivity…
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Designing Azure ExpressRoute from Scratch: Part 1: Why Choose ExpressRoute?
Why Would an Organisation Need ExpressRoute? When organisations first move workloads to Azure, connectivity is usually not…