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Terraform to Deploy Azure Consumption Budgets
Automation, Azure, Cost, DevOps, Professional, Terraform

Terraform to Deploy Azure Consumption Budgets

If you missed it azurerm v2.59 of Terraform supports consumption resources. This is big as it allows us to apply an Azure Consumption Budget via

May 14, 2021May 14, 2021 by John Folberth2 Min Reading
Dynamically Adding Terraform Policy Assignments…Reusing Infrastructure as Code!
Automation, Azure, DevOps, Professional, Terraform

Dynamically Adding Terraform Policy Assignments…Reusing Infrastructure as Code!

This a post related to my post on “Creating Azure Policy via Terraform” and throws in how to deal reusing an Azure Policy Definition for

May 13, 2021May 14, 2021 by John Folberth2 Min Reading
Why take Microsoft beta Exams
Azure, Certifications, Professional

Why take Microsoft beta Exams

Taking Microsoft beta exams is an interesting topic within the Microsoft community. I decided to write this post after successfully passing the DP 203 Data

May 13, 2021December 29, 2021 by John Folberth4 Min Reading
25 Days of Open Source
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25 Days of Open Source

This holiday season I decided to embark on a challenge of committing things back to the open source community. There already is the well-established Advent

April 27, 2021April 27, 2021 by John Folberth4 Min Reading
How I Became a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT)
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How I Became a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT)

For those unaware a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) is a certification that allows individuals to deliver Microsoft content. There are a few other benefits such

April 13, 2021December 29, 2021 by John Folberth3 Min Reading
Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Template /Bicep Deployment what-if operation
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Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Template /Bicep Deployment what-if operation

Historically speaking one of the pitfalls when working with Azure ARM deployments has been a lack of a ‘plan’ or outline as to what the

March 30, 2021April 5, 2021 by John Folberth2 Min Reading
Auto Provision and Manage Azure Resource Group Lifecycle
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Auto Provision and Manage Azure Resource Group Lifecycle

This post is a part of Azure Spring Clean which is a community event focused on Azure management topics from March 22-25, 2021. Thanks to Joe Carlyle and Thomas Thornton for

March 24, 2021December 29, 2021 by John Folberth14 Min Reading
Exam DP-203: Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (beta)
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Exam DP-203: Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (beta)

Update 5/12/21: Did successfully pass the 203 beta exam. This is a brief summary of my experience taking Exam DP-203: Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure

March 19, 2021August 26, 2021 by John Folberth2 Min Reading
Creating and Deploying Azure Policy via Terraform
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Creating and Deploying Azure Policy via Terraform

Azure Policy is a way to proactively prevent Azure resources from being created that violate your organizations policies/standards/best practices. A policy can enforce a plethora

March 18, 2021March 18, 2021 by John Folberth2 Min Reading
Automagically Restarting Web and Function Apps
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Automagically Restarting Web and Function Apps

There certainly is a lot of talk in Azure about how to automatically do certain activities like restarting an application when an error threshold has

March 13, 2021December 29, 2021 by John Folberth4 Min Reading
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