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Infrastructure as Code Best Practices: Lessons from 100+ Deployments
IaC is a skill that compounds. These practices become second nature and save countless hours of debugging and recovery.
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Infrastructure as Code Maturity: Where Are You on the Journey?
IaC maturity is a journey, not a destination. Start where you are, establish good practices early, and continuously improve. The goal is infrastructure that…
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ARM What-If: Preview Changes Before Deploying
What-if is an essential safety net for infrastructure deployments, preventing costly mistakes before they happen.
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Bicep Registry: Sharing and Reusing Infrastructure Modules
The Bicep Registry is essential for scaling infrastructure as code across enterprise organizations.
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Azure Bicep in 2022: The New Standard for Infrastructure as Code
Bicep in 2022 is production-ready and the best choice for Azure infrastructure as code.
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Infrastructure as Code Maturity: Beyond the Basics
IaC maturity in 2021 meant treating infrastructure code with the same rigor as application code. The tools support it; the discipline makes it work.
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Bicep Modules for Modular Azure Infrastructure
Bicep modules enable clean, maintainable Azure infrastructure code. By separating concerns into modules, you create reusable components that can be shared…
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Azure Resource Manager Templates Best Practices
I've written a lot of ARM templates in the past three years, and I've also inherited a lot of ARM templates written by people who were having a bad day. The…
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Azure Bicep: Infrastructure as Code Simplified
ARM templates and I have a long, unhealthy relationship. Hundreds of lines of JSON to express what reads like fifteen lines of intent. Bicep is the cure…