Four days in Atlanta From October 26 to 29, I attended IBM TechXchange 2026 in Atlanta, Georgia. As an IBM Champion and HashiCorp Ambassador, it was the first year that HashiConf is incorporated i...

Why expose a VM to the internet? A newly created VM can start receiving connection attempts as soon as it has a public IP and reachable services. It does not need to be advertised or known to user...

Terraform module for Azure tag governance with automated compliance monitoring Why I built this module This module came from a real pain point I kept seeing: everyone talks about tagging, but in ...

This project was built for DIO’s Microsoft Azure Cloud Native challenge: “Storing E-commerce Data in the Cloud”. The idea was to create a Streamlit application that stores product metadata in Azure...

What is HashiConf? HashiConf is HashiCorp’s annual global conference focused on cloud infrastructure and security. It brings together developers, IT leaders, and the broader community to discuss a...

Introduction Choosing the right framework can accelerate your cloud journey and ensure your workloads are secure, efficient, and aligned with business goals. When working with Microsoft Azure, two...

Overview Diagnostic settings allow you to collect resource logs, platform metrics, and the activity log, sending this data to destinations such as Log Analytics, Storage Account, Event Hubs, or pa...

What is Cookiecutter? Cookiecutter is a command-line utility that quickly creates new projects from templates. It helps teams standardize structure, automate best practices, and start every projec...

Currently, the subnet peering feature is available in all Azure regions, but it can only be configured using Terraform, PowerShell, API, Azure CLI, and ARM templates. To use this feature, you must...

This will be a short and straightforward post highlighting the key differences I’ve found between the new landing zone module AVM-ALZ and the legacy CAF Enterprise module. Just for context, the CA...