Ned Bellavance — Veteran IT professional and founder of Ned in the Cloud, creating courses, podcasts, and technical content on cloud and infrastructure.
209 articles from this blog
A tutorial on migrating Terraform state data from Terraform Cloud to another backend, covering state storage basics and workspace management.
A guide to validating Terraform Infrastructure as Code using formatting, syntax, and security checks within a GitHub Actions workflow.
Using the TFE Provider to manage Terraform Cloud organizations, workspaces, and teams programmatically with Infrastructure as Code.
Explains when to use Terraform's count vs for_each meta-arguments for resource creation, arguing for_each is generally superior.
A technical guide on replacing the deprecated template_cloudinit_config data source in Terraform with the templatefile function and cloudinit provider.
Explores the new Terraform Cloud configuration block in Terraform 1.1, detailing improvements over the old remote backend for CLI workflows.
A technical educator reviews his 2021 content creation (videos, courses) on Terraform and cloud topics, and shares plans for 2022.
Explores how Terraform handles infrastructure changes made outside its control, detailing the plan/apply process and reconciliation strategies.
Explains how to use Terraform 1.1's new 'moved' block to safely refactor infrastructure code without destroying existing resources.
A guide on using GitHub Actions to automate Terraform workflows for deploying and managing infrastructure on Microsoft Azure.
Explores data transformation challenges in Terraform using a real-world example of managing Azure Kubernetes Service RBAC permissions.
A developer shares lessons learned while building a CI/CD pipeline using Azure DevOps, Terraform, and Terratest for deploying an AKS cluster.
A personal update and tech newsletter covering Terraform course updates, a GCP Flask app deployment tutorial, and a podcast on open-source community building.
A personal newsletter discussing a trail running injury, Terraform basics, and a podcast episode on cloud-native app evolution and open-source communities.
Author shares key takeaways from a Pluralsight Author Summit on interactive labs, live video, and in-person events, plus updates on upcoming tech tutorials.
Author shares lessons learned from failing the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam, detailing preparation and plans to retake.
A tech content creator's 2020 review, covering podcast episodes on cloud topics and a pandemic-inspired daily live-stream series.
Quick fix for a Docker connection error when starting a HashiCorp Boundary dev instance on Windows.
A guide to configuring HashiCorp Vault's AWS secrets engine to dynamically generate credentials across multiple AWS accounts using the assume_role feature.
A cloud consultant reflects on his first year as an independent content creator, discussing the challenges and rewards of leaving a stable IT job.
