Freddy Ayala

29 stories by Freddy Ayala

How to easily import existing Azure infrastructure into Terraform

Terraform is an excellent tool for managing and deploying any type of infrastructure. In an ideal world you would...

Sep 2 · 2 min read >

Becoming a Cloud Architect, Part 1 – Starting a project

Introduction In this series of posts we are going to deep dive into a real world scenario of a...

Aug 31 · 4 min read >

Microsoft Azure Certifications Explained

Over the past few years, the cloud computing industry has generated a lot of interest and investment and it...

Aug 30 · 3 min read >

Compliance != Security

Besides big data, machine learning and blockchain, one of the most popular technological subjects nowadays is security, I bet...

Aug 21 · 4 min read >

How to choose a database in the age of NoSql

As promised in one of my previous articles now we are going to discuss about how to choose a...

Aug 21 · 5 min read >

SQL VS NOSQL

I remember some years ago when talking about databases you would often hear the word “Oracle”, which is considered...

Aug 21 · 3 min read >

Terraform in Azure for Beginners

Long gone are the days where there was a clear line of separation between operations or sysadmin roles and...

Aug 20 · 2 min read >

Deploy a Kubernetes Cluster using 3 different IaC technologies (Terraform, ARM Templates and Pulumi)

Infrastructure as code (IaC) is the process of managing and provisioning cloud resources through machine-readable definition files rather than using...

Aug 20 · 6 min read >

Dirty Terraform Tricks with Azure

No matter how much you want to automate your Azure Infrastructure deployment using terraform, you are going to find...

Aug 7 · 3 min read >