Welcome to my blog, where I document my journey in cloud computing and IT. Here, I share what I learn about Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, virtualization, and cloud fundamentals, breaking down complex topics into simple, practical explanations.
Automating Secure Database Credentials with Terraform Every new environment (dev, staging, prod) needs its own database credentials. Making them up by hand doesn’t scale and it’s slow, inconsistent, and one weak password away from a problem. So I built a Terraform project that generates them automatically. What it does: Generates a random 4-character ID to […]
To demonstrate Terraform’s workflow in a simple, fun way, I’ll be creating a random pet resource. Here’s the first main.tf: So, Terraform would generate something like: African-happy-lion-tiger. This configuration is hardcoded making it less flexible and harder to reuse across different environments. Terraform init: Initializes the working directory. It downloads the providers your config depends
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Setup & Configuration Guide Overview Microsoft Entra Connect (formerly Azure AD Connect) is the Microsoft tool that bridges your on-premises Active Directory with Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) in the cloud. It enables hybrid identity, allowing users to sign in to both on-premises and cloud resources using a single identity. This guide walks through a
Beyond basic file commands, Linux becomes truly powerful when you understand redirection, pipes, and text processing tools. These features allow you to control input, output, and errors efficiently which is essential in system administration and DevOps and cloud environments.
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Linux is built around a powerful file system and command-line tools that give users full control over their environment. As a beginner, understanding the root user, root directory, and basic file-handling commands is an important first step. In this post, we’ll break these concepts down in a simple and practical way. Root User vs Root
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In this post, I’ll walk you through a simple “playground” setup where we’ll create directories and files safely, then practice moving around using both absolute and relative paths. Along the way, you’ll see why the -P option is a lifesaver when building nested folders, and how commands like cd, ls, cp and rm behave depending
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What is a Resource Group? A resource group is a container that holds related resources for an Azure solution. The resource group can include all the resources for the solution or only those resources that you want to manage as a group. You decide how to allocate resources to resource groups based on what makes
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In Microsoft 365 (M365), users are the individual accounts that people sign in with to access Microsoft services like Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint.
What is Hyper-V? Hyper-V is Microsoft’s virtualization technology.It lets you create and manage virtual machines (VMs) on a physical computer or server. Think of it like this: One physical machine → Many virtual computers running inside it.
Cloud Computing is the delivery of computing services over the internet enabling faster innovation, resources and economics of scales. The fundamental components of cloud infrastructure include;
