By the end of this post you will understand what is actually inside your Terraform state file, and you will know how to run it so a teammate's apply never corrupts it and a secret never leaks out of it. Here is the whole idea in one line.
Everyone keeps saying agentic AI, but not a lot of people can tell you what actually makes an AI agentic. In this post I want to walk through four things that separate a real agent from a glorified chatbot: the loop, the building blocks, how you actually drive them, and
I just automated my entire Terraform workflow using an AI agent, and in this post I'm going to show you exactly how. AI coding assistants have been around for a while now, and many of us use them as regular chatbots. You ask a question, you get an
Welcome to the second edition of my new series called Tech Notes (Working Name). The idea is to share what I am currently learning in tech to perhaps inspire you to want to look into the same topics! It will be anything and everything. It is not always topics that
Welcome to my new series called Tech Notes (Working Name). The idea is to share what I am currently learning in tech to perhaps inspire you to want to look into the same topics! It will be anything and everything. It is not always topics that I master so I
I've worked with Infrastructure as Code for many years. All this time I had never really stopped and asked myself: Why does Infrastructure as Code (IaC) work they way it does? It's kind of magical. Why does this: resource "azapi_resource" "resource_group&
Before we begin This post will show you how to use queries in KQL which we use in Azure within log analytics, translate them into the language Datadog uses to find what you need and finally create an alert for it with Terraform and the Datadog provider! This post does
The problem Ever since I launched my Youtube Channel I've only published a few posts on my blog. Why? Youtube takes an extreme amount of time to produce a video that is of the standard that I feel is good enough to publish. I have had the same
A critical component in any cloud platform is how to manage networking. At least if you have other clouds and/or on-premise to respect and their IP-ranges. Central parts of this is network topology and how to manage IPAM (IP Address Management). Luckily nowadays, there is an IPAM
This is a writeup in text from the Youtube video I created on this topic, you can find it here: Problem statement: When working with infrastructure-as-code (IaC), deployment failures will happen, it's just the way it is. These issues often arise during the terraform apply phase
Sometimes we exempt things In Azure we often use Azure Policy as a tool to govern our cloud environment. This can be anything from enforcing certain locations being used (Or rather disallowing certain locations), restrict which resources can be configured and all the way down to specific settings on Azure
In a previous blogpost I wrote about creating your own custom Azure Policies using Terraform, you can find that post here: Write your own custom Azure Policies with TerraformPreviously on this blog we’ve talked about dealing with Azure Policy using Infrastructure as Code, sometimes referred to as Policy as