IBM has announced its acquisition of HashiCorp Inc., a leading multi-cloud infrastructure automation company, for $6.4 billion! This acquisition is poised to revolutionize the hybrid cloud landscape, offering enterprises a comprehensive end-to-end solution to navigate the complexities of today’s AI-driven application growth. Let’s look at the details of this cloud changing acquisition and its implications […] The article Analyzing IBM’s Acquisition of HashiCorp: A Game-Changer in Hybrid Cloud Management appeared first on Build5Nines ..read more

When using HashiCorp Terraform as the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool of choice, it becomes critical to organize the Terraform code as the Terraform project becomes more complex. One of the most common practices is to split the Terraform project from a single file (typically named main.tf) into multiple smaller files. This helps increase maintainability […] The article Terraform: Split main.tf into seperate files appeared first on Build5Nines ..read more

Terraform’s declarative approach allows for defining infrastructure as code (IaC), enabling teams to automate the deployment and management of resources across various cloud providers, including Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS. As infrastructure evolves, there may arise a need to remove resources from the Terraform state that are no longer required. When you manually delete resources […] The article Terraform: Remove Resource from State File (.tfstate) appeared first on Build5Nines ..read more

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) have emerged as transformative technologies, driving innovation across many industries. However, in addition to their benefits, AI and ML systems bring unique security challenges that demand a proactive and comprehensive approach. A new methodology that applies the principles of DevSecOps to AI and ML security, called AISecOps, ensures […] The article AISecOps: Applying DevSecOps to AI and ML Security appeared first on Build5Nines ..read more

The Microsoft Azure CDN (Content Delivery Network) provides secure, reliable content delivery with a broad global reach along with rich features. The Azure CDN POP (point of presence) locations are not the same as the Azure Region locations, and Microsoft has the list of cities for the CDN locations published in the Azure documentation. However, […] The article Azure CDN POP Locations: Interactive Map of Azure CDN Points of Presence appeared first on Build5Nines ..read more

With Infrastructure as Code (IaC), every aspect of an organization’s infrastructure is defined and managed through code. This infrastructure deployment and configuration automation makes managing the organizations infrastructure much easier over time. Also, by committing the IaC code that configurations the infrastructure into source control, there are change tracking and other benefits for the organizations […] The article Benefits of Convention over Configuration for IaC Deployment Projects appeared first on Build5Nines ..read more

HashiCorp Terraform is a great Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool that allows you to easily manage many resources efficiently. While you can write Terraform code for each individual resource, Terraform supports for_each loops and other programming constructs that enable more efficient resource management to be programmed within a Terraform project. This article will show you […] The article Terraform: How to for_each through a list(objects) appeared first on Build5Nines ..read more

All resources within Microsoft Azure are created within an Azure Resource Group. While every resource has an Azure Region (aka location) specified as to where the resource will be hosted, so do Azure Resource Groups. This may be confusing at first, since Azure Resource Groups are a “global” resource. This means they are just an […] The article Why do Azure Resource Groups have an Azure Region association? appeared first on Build5Nines ..read more

When working with Terraform, one common question that arises is whether to include the .terraform.lock.hcl file in the Git repository or leave it out by adding it to .gitignore. This decision impacts the version control practices and reproducibility of your infrastructure deployments. In this article, we’ll explore the contents of the .terraform.lock.hcl file, discuss why […] The article Should .terraform.lock.hcl file be added to .gitignore or committed to Git repo? appeared first on Build5Nines ..read more

Merging two Git repositories together in not a common task. In my own consulting work, this is a task that does come up every so often when the code I’m working on needs to be moved from an initial Git repository, whether it’s GitHub or Azure DevOps, to another Git repository that will be the […] The article Git: Merge Repositories with History appeared first on Build5Nines ..read more