Exploring the new Bicep Deployment Pane in VS Code, a feature for validating, previewing, and deploying Azure infrastructure templates.
A detailed guide on using Azure Deployment Stacks with Bicep to manage resource lifecycles at scale, including a preview of upcoming features.
Introduces the new opinionated formatter for Bicep templates in VSCode, detailing its experimental features and configuration for code style consistency.
A guide to structuring complex AWS CDK projects using the Go programming language, focusing on nested stacks and best practices.
A guide to managing DTAP environments in AWS CDK using YAML configuration files for consistent, parameterized infrastructure deployment.
A developer's first impressions of Nix, comparing it to Ansible for managing software environments and infrastructure as code.
Bicep v0.18.4 introduces native support for Bicep parameter files (.bicepparam), including decompilation and deployment features.
Upcoming Bicep parameter files (.bicepparam) will replace JSON, offering cleaner syntax and better tooling for Azure infrastructure-as-code deployments.
Explores using AWS CodeBuild and CodePipeline to enforce security governance while maintaining developer agility in CI/CD pipelines.
Explains how to use the new MaxAgeInDays configuration in Bicep's linter rules to control allowed Azure resource API versions.
A guide to manually migrating Terraform state from Terraform Cloud to an S3 backend due to new pricing limits.
Explains how to reuse code in Azure Bicep using parameters, loops, and modules, and introduces the public module registry.
A technical guide comparing declarative vs. imperative IaC, focusing on managing Kubernetes infrastructure and applications on AWS using AWS CDK and cdk8s in a single codebase.
Introduces cdk-nag, an open-source tool for automated security and compliance checks in AWS CDK infrastructure-as-code projects.
Introduces the 'diagrams' Python library for creating consistent, version-controlled cloud architecture diagrams as code.
A beginner's guide to Terraform, covering its core concepts, benefits, and basic commands for managing infrastructure as code.
A guide on scaling Azure App Service Plans between B1, B2, and B3 SKUs using PowerShell commands and parameters.
A guide to refactoring Terraform IaC to manage separate staging and production environments, comparing workspaces vs. modules.
A guide for Azure developers on five practical VSCode techniques to transition from ARM Templates to Bicep for Infrastructure as Code.
Introducing Terraform Cloud Projects, a new hierarchical structure for organizing and managing workspaces with improved permission inheritance.
