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Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build5Nines Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past week. Be sure to subscribe to Build5Nines Weekly to get the newsletter in your email every week and […] The article Build5Nines Weekly – September 13, 2022 appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Every Terraform project has external dependencies on code that does not exist within the project itself. These external dependencies rely on Terraform Providers and Modules that may exist outside the code base of the Terraform project. Terraform 0.14 and later uses the Dependency Lock File track its decision from one run to another on determining […] The article Terraform: Dependency Lock File (.terraform.lock.hcl) appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build5Nines Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past week. Be sure to subscribe to Build5Nines Weekly to get the newsletter in your email every week and […] The article Build5Nines Weekly – September 5, 2022 appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build5Nines Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past week. Be sure to subscribe to Build5Nines Weekly to get the newsletter in your email every week and […] The article Build5Nines Weekly – August 30, 2022 appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

The Cloud Development Kit for Terraform (CDKTF) enables you to write Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using HashiCorp Terraform without the need to learn HCL (HashiCorp Configuration Language). This opens up Terraform infrastructure development to the use of existing toolchains for other programming languages developers are already familiar with, like Python, C#, Java, Go and Typescript. […] The article CDK for Terraform: Write IaC using Language of Choice appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

This Microsoft Azure Regions Interactive Map shows the locations of each of the Microsoft Azure cloud regions plotted on a map. The map code is built using the Azure Maps Web SDK Disclaimer: This is an unofficial map of Azure Regions and is not endorsed by or affiliated with Microsoft. The official Azure region data […] The article Azure Regions Interactive Map appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

The AzAPI Terraform Provider for deploying and managing Microsoft Azure resources is a lightweight, “thin layer” provider built on top of the Azure ARM (Azure Resource Manager) REST APIs. This enables the management of any Microsoft Azure resource using any Azure ARM API version. The primary benefit of the AzAPI Terraform Provider is that it […] The article AzAPI Terraform Provider: Introduction to working with Azure Preview Resources appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build5Nines Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past week. Be sure to subscribe to Build5Nines Weekly to get the newsletter in your email every week and […] The article Build5Nines Weekly – August 22, 2022 appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Terraform provides a greater ability to define Infrastructure as Code (IaC) through its support of Expressions. Expressions are lines of code that define configuration and attributes on resources in the Terraform HCL code as the Terraform code is executed with the terraform plan command. This enables a rich ability to dynamically configure resources based on […] The article Terraform Expression: Get List Object by Attribute Value Lookup appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build5Nines Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past week. Be sure to subscribe to Build5Nines Weekly to get the newsletter in your email every week and […] The article Build5Nines Weekly – August 14, 2022 appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

The Azure CLI is a command-line tool built to give a native CLI interface for working with Microsoft Azure resources. The Azure CLI itself will make calls to the Azure REST API to perform actions that each of the Azure CLI (az) commands support. However, there are those rare times when you need to call […] The article Azure CLI: Call Azure REST API Directly appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Terraform, being an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool, enables you to write declarative code that is then used to provision and manage resources using providers for the resource types that your project requires. It’s a powerful tool enables you to write a single project of Terraform code that manages resources across one or more clouds […] The article Terraform Modules: Create Reusable Infrastructure as Code appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build5Nines Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past week. Be sure to subscribe to Build5Nines Weekly to get the newsletter in your email every week and […] The article Build5Nines Weekly – August 5, 2022 appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Instead of using username / password to authenticate with the Git (git) command-line when cloning repositories, Git supports the use of the more secure option to use SSH Public / Private Key Pairs. Here’s the simple steps to follow to generate an SSH Key Pair and set it up with Azure DevOps Repositories to be […] The article Azure DevOps: Create SSH Key to Authorize Git on macOS appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

In most Terraform projects you’ll probably be deploying and managing Azure resources within a single Azure Subscription. However, it’s common to structure things across multiple Azure Subscriptions in certain cases. One of these cases in when deploying a Hub and Spoke networking model and separating DEV and PROD environments into separate Azure Subscriptions. This is […] The article Terraform: Deploy to Multiple Azure Subscriptions in Single Project appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

HashiCorp Terraform is a great Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool that helps you deploy and manage IT Resources using declarative code written in HCL (HashiCorp Configuration Language). Terraform allows you to managed these resources through the use of Terraform Providers that encapsulate all the REST API calls to manage those resources. There are many providers, […] The article Terraform: Overview of Azure Providers and Tools appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

In Microsoft Azure, you can assign Tags to Azure Resources to add additional metadata to them. This can be used to enhance the reporting of your Azure Resources so you can determine which Business Unit or Department in your organization is responsible for paying for the resources. Tags are also used to add any other […] The article Terraform: Azure Resource Tags Tips appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

One of the most difficult things in IT is naming things. The same goes for choosing the correct naming convention to use when naming cloud resources in Microsoft Azure. Sure, you can name things pretty much anything you want, but if you’re not careful you’ll end up with a jumbled mess of mismatched resource names […] The article Azure Resource Naming Conventions and Best Practices appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s scalable, fully managed, serverless NoSQL database as a service offering. The service provides a lot of really great features for hosting NoSQL databases within the Azure cloud. There can often be limited transparency as to what features Microsoft is working on adding to Cosmos DB, as well as other Azure […] The article Top 10 Azure Cosmos DB Planned Features Coming Soon as of July 2022 appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

There have been a few different logos used by Microsoft over the years for the Azure cloud platform; originally Windows Azure and later rebranded to Microsoft Azure. Let’s take a look at the various Microsoft Azure logos used over time; starting with the early days when the service as called Windows Azure all the way […] The article Microsoft Azure: Brand Logo Evolution Over Time (2009 – Present) appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build5Nines Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past week. Be sure to subscribe to Build5Nines Weekly to get the newsletter in your email every week and […] The article Latest Cloud News: Let’s Get Back at This! (July 20, 2022 – Build5Nines Weekly) appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Recently, I performed a lot of work as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / DevOps Engineer on a project that utilizes Azure Synapse for a large data lake and data processing implementation. Through my duties as SRE, I needed to configure the security of Azure Synapse by adding an allow list for IP Addresses that […] The article Azure CLI: Add/Remove IP Addresses on Azure Synapse Firewall appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a growing market that is bringing an ever increasing amount of connected devices and innovative solutions that mix compute power, sensors, and other hardware with the physical world to provide monitoring, predictive, and automation functionality across both consumer and industrial applications. On the face, IoT simply means Internet connecting […] The article What is the Internet of Things? appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Azure Private Link provides a way to be able to access resources sitting behind an Azure Load Balancer (such as Virtual Machines) to be accessed by other Azure services using Private Endpoints from their own VNets. It’s basically a way to access resources that do not directly support Private Link to be able to. The […] The article Azure CLI: Get Private Link Service Alias / DNS Name appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

The AZ-400 Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam tests and validates a candidates expertise as a DevOps Professional around the use of Microsoft Azure technologies for designing and implementing DevOps practices. This exam is a part of the required exams needed to earn the larger Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert certification. AZ-400 Exam Target […] The article AZ-400: Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions Certification Exam appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

You can use Visual Studio Code (VSCode) to develop Azure Internet of Things solutions using Azure services; like Azure IoT Hub, Azure IoT Edge, and device applications. Microsoft provides a rich set of tools that can be used for Azure IoT development along with other development tools you may be needing such as C#, Python, […] The article Azure IoT Development Tools for Visual Studio Code appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Skills challenges to encourage learning and certification is a regular thing that Microsoft has done in the past around the Microsoft Build conference. This year is not different! We now have the Microsoft Build 2022 Cloud Skills Challenge that gives you 8 learning challenges to choose from. Once you complete a skills challenge, you will […] The article Microsoft Build Cloud Skills Challenge – May 2022 appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

On October 6, 2020 at approximately 19:00 UTC the Microsoft Azure DevOps services began to experience “Availability Degradation.” and comes only one week after a big Azure AD Outage that essentially took down all of Microsoft Azure authentication. This Azure DevOps outage is not related to last weeks outage of Azure, and started with some […] The article Azure DevOps is Down; Outage is MS not Your CI/CD Builds (October 6, 2020) appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

It seems Microsoft is having quite a few outages lately. With last weeks Azure AD outage, Microsoft has continued to have some service disruptions this week too. Yesterday, October 6, there was a service outage related to Azure Front Door that had a rippling affect on Azure DevOps. Today, October 7, there was an outage […] The article Azure Outages with Azure Front Door and Internal Azure WAN (October 6 – 7, 2020) appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

The upcoming Module feature for Azure Bicep really enhances the new ARM Template alternative language in a way that ARM JSON never did. Using Azure Bicep Modules you can easily create reusable bicep code that will eliminate copy/paste of bicep code across multiple deployment projects. Azure Bicep Modules do not require any special syntax, and […] The article Creating Azure Bicep Modules for Code Reuse appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Microsoft is making changes to their certificates and it is important to understand how these changes will impact your deployments. Azure will be changed to use TLS certificates from a different set of Root Certificate Authorities (CAs). This change is being made because the current CA certificates do not comply with one of the CA/Browser […] The article Azure TLS certificate changes appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build5Nines Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past week. Be sure to subscribe to Build5Nines Weekly to get the newsletter in your email every week and never miss a thing! The article Latest Cloud News: Azure DevOps Outage, Surface Laptop Go, and more! (October 6, 2020 – Build5Nines Weekly) appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

It’s been a long year and then some! We really can’t wait to connect together again with friends old and new in person. This June, in sunny Orlando, Florida, the Microsoft Azure + AI Conference is taking the first steps towards that goal of training, networking, and celebrating together in person by offering a special […] The article We are back live for a conference! appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build5Nines Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past week. Be sure to subscribe to Build5Nines Weekly to get the newsletter in your email every week and never miss a thing! The article Latest Cloud News: Azure Outage, MSIgnite and more! (September 30, 2020 – Build5Nines Weekly) appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Did you know that Microsoft Azure is not just one public cloud? Most of us only interact with the Public Azure Cloud, but this isn’t the only Microsoft Azure cloud. There are actually four different Microsoft Azure clouds. Let’s take a look at how Microsoft Azure itself is actually multiple clouds offered by Microsoft! How […] The article Microsoft Azure is Multiple Clouds – Public, US Gov, China and Germany appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

I was lucky enough to join Ben Stegink and Scott Hoag for a detailed discussion about the new Surface Duo. We spend an hour talking Duo and exploring some of the differences between an iPhone, iPad, and other phones. Along the ride, we explore who would use the phone and why! Don’t miss this full […] The article Surface Duo with Dan Patrick on Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Earlier this year, we introduced a new series called Az Kung Fu, and to build on that Build5Nines is adding Terraform to this project. I’m excited to share that MVP Kevin Bost is helping us by live-streaming the creating of a new Terraform Kung Fu toolkit which will be made available. In this series, we […] The article MVPs Dan Patrick and Kevin Bost to live stream Terraform appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Azure DevOps was down yesterday due to an Azure Front Door (AFD) related issue. Today, Microsoft has been experiencing a series of “Service Disruptions” with Azure DevOps in the United States and Europe geographic regions affecting the Boards, Repos, Pipelines and Test Plans services. This makes me wonder if there’s some bigger issue going on […] The article Azure DevOps Outages: October 7, 2020 appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Have you ever created an Azure web application, created a DNS record from your domain, and then deleted the web app without deleting the DNS record? Then you have just created a major security risk! I came across a fantastic article the other day on the Azure Security Docs page and figured I would capture […] The article Stopping Azure subdomain takeovers appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build5Nines Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past week. Be sure to subscribe to Build5Nines Weekly to get the newsletter in your email every week and […] The article Latest Cloud News: IoT, Security, Azure Sphere, and more! (December 4, 2020 – Build5Nines Weekly) appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build5Nines Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past week. Be sure to subscribe to Build5Nines Weekly to get the newsletter in your email every week and […] The article Latest Cloud News: Apple on K8s, IoT, Microsoft Pluton and more! (November 20, 2020 – Build5Nines Weekly) appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build5Nines Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past week. Be sure to subscribe to Build5Nines Weekly to get the newsletter in your email every week and […] The article Latest Cloud News: Kubernetes, Terraform, Teams Multi-Login and more! (November 5, 2020 – Build5Nines Weekly) appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Microsoft is advancing cloud datacenters where no cloud datacenter has gone before; into Space! They have brought together a team of renowned space industry veterans to work along-side Microsoft product engineers and scientists to build cloud capabilities that meet the needs for space. These efforts with Microsoft Azure Space bring innovations that include space mission […] The article Microsoft Azure Space – Innovation on Earth and Beyond appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build5Nines Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past week. Be sure to subscribe to Build5Nines Weekly to get the newsletter in your email every week and […] The article Latest Cloud News: Python in Azure Cloud Shell, Terraform Certification, and more! (October 22, 2020 – Build5Nines Weekly) appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build5Nines Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past week. Be sure to subscribe to Build5Nines Weekly to get the newsletter in your email every week and never miss a thing! The article Latest Cloud News: Azure Outages, Azure Bicep Modules and more! (October 13, 2020 – Build5Nines Weekly) appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

The Azure CLI can be updated from the command-line in Windows. The command az upgrade is used for this, and it has a few options which are useful. Like all Azure CLI (az) commands, there is help that can be revealed when running the command with the -h The two arguments that are shown with […] The article Update Azure CLI from the command-line (az upgrade) appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

So you have already created a Virtual Machine in Azure that is provisioned with a Public IP address and you need to remove it. Don’t worry, you do NOT need to delete the VM. You can disassociate the Public IP from the Network Interface connected to the VM, and then delete the Public IP. This […] The article Azure CLI: Delete Public IP from Existing NIC / VM appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

So you have already created a Virtual Machine in Azure that is provisioned with a Public IP address and you need to remove it. Don’t worry, you do NOT need to delete the VM. You can disassociate the Public IP from the Network Interface connected to the VM, and then delete the Public IP. This […] The article Azure CLI: Delete Public IP from Existing NIC / VM appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

There are times when you want to delete all the resources within a specific Azure Resource Group, but you do not want to delete the resource group. Sure, deleting the entire resource group might be easier, but at this time that’s not an option. You can use the az resource list and az resource delete […] The article Azure CLI: Delete All Resources Within Resource Group appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Are you looking at security certifications? Certification in the areas of Cybersecurity, IT Security, and Computer Security do not have as many straight forward options in comparison to Windows or Linux certifications, or even cloud certifications with Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, or others. Those certification paths are quite straight forward, as you can find certifications […] The article Top 15 Security Certifications for your Job Role in 2022 appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article