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
Author shares PowerShell scripts to automate downloading and deploying the Azure Stack Development Kit (ASDK), simplifying the setup process.
Announcing the Day Two Cloud podcast, focusing on real-world cloud deployment experiences, lessons learned, and practical insights beyond the hype.
A tech professional reviews his 2018 goals, including building a cloud practice, learning Go/Python, creating courses, blogging, and speaking.
Analyzes the evolution of hybrid cloud strategies, contrasting traditional application bursting with modern, consistent deployment models for legacy systems.
Analyzes the fear that using AWS could help Amazon compete with and destroy your business, debunking common myths about cloud provider competition.
A comparison of AWS Outposts and Azure Stack, two hybrid cloud solutions that bring cloud services to on-premises data centers.
Analyzes the future of cloud computing after AWS and Azure's dominance, exploring potential next shifts like serverless and edge computing.
A wrap-up of a blog series documenting all built-in Terraform interpolation functions, including project reflections and lessons learned.
Explains the Terraform zipmap() function, which creates a map from two equal-length lists, with examples and use cases.
Explains the Terraform values() function, which extracts values from a map, with examples and use cases.
Explains the uuid() function in Terraform, covering its usage, purpose, and technical details of RFC 4122 v4 UUID generation.
Explains the Terraform urlencode() function, its purpose for URL sanitization, and provides usage examples.
A technical guide explaining the upper() interpolation function in Terraform, including its syntax, usage examples, and practical applications.
Explains the Terraform trimspace() function, its usage, and examples for removing trailing whitespace from strings.
Explains the Terraform transpose() function, which flips a map of lists to group keys by common values, with practical examples.
Explains the Terraform timeadd() function for date/time manipulation, including examples and use cases.
Explains Terraform's title() function, its behavior, and its limitations for capitalizing strings.
Explains the substr() function in Terraform for extracting substrings, including examples and use cases.
Explains the Terraform timestamp() function, its usage, and important considerations like ignoring changes.
Explains the Terraform split() function, its syntax, use cases, and provides practical examples for splitting strings into lists.
