Ned Bellavance — Veteran IT professional and founder of Ned in the Cloud, creating courses, podcasts, and technical content on cloud and infrastructure.
203 articles from this blog
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 Terraform's title() function, its behavior, and its limitations for capitalizing strings.
Explains the Terraform timeadd() function for date/time manipulation, including examples and use cases.
Explains the Terraform timestamp() function, its usage, and important considerations like ignoring changes.
Explains the substr() function in Terraform for extracting substrings, including examples and use cases.
Explains the Terraform split() function, its syntax, use cases, and provides practical examples for splitting strings into lists.
Explains the Terraform sort() function, its syntax, usage examples, and limitations for sorting lists in lexicographical order.
Explains the slice() function in Terraform for extracting subsets from lists, with examples and use cases.
Explains the Terraform signum() function, which returns -1, 0, or 1 based on an integer's sign, with use cases and examples.
Explains Terraform's sha1(), sha256(), and sha512() hash functions, their usage, and security considerations.
Explains the Terraform rsadecrypt() function for decrypting base64-encoded strings with an RSA key, including a practical example.
Explains the Terraform replace() function for string manipulation, including regex usage and practical examples.
