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Category: Cloud
Guides, tutorials, and best practices for cloud platforms including AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. From architecture to deployment, learn to build and manage cloud infrastructure.
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Terraform Plan Output to File: Use -out Safely
Save Terraform plan output to a file, review it with terraform show, apply the exact saved plan, and handle .tfplan files as sensitive artifacts. Read the guide
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Portainer: How to Build a Docker Home Lab Setup
Update: Tested and Validated 30th December 2025 Portainer is a powerful, open-source management interface that allows you to build and manage Docker, Docker Swarm, and Kubernetes environments through… Read the guide
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Terraform Migrate From Template_file Data Sources: Complete Guide
I stumbled across this problem when using a new MacBook Pro M1 CPU. I had some legacy code that used aws_template for a user data script. The template… Read the guide
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Steampipe AWS One-Liners: Useful Commands and Examples
Here are some useful Steampipe queries for AWS Need to know how to install Steampipe – see my blog post here. Turbot’s Steampipe AWS tools are great for… Read the guide
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How to Query Cloud Infrastructure with Steampipe
Steampipe is a powerful open-source command-line tool that instantly transforms APIs into a relational database, allowing you to use standard SQL to query your cloud infrastructure. Instead of… Read the guide
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How to Deploy the Latest AMI Every Time
One of the more common tasks you will be asked to do as an AWS administrator is to build an instance, but you want to have the very… Read the guide
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Run VMware ESXi on Hyper-V: Nested Lab Guide
Build a lab-only nested VMware ESXi host inside Hyper-V, with current Microsoft and Broadcom support caveats, prerequisites, and setup checks. Read the guide
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How to Install and Use the Alation Data Catalog
The Alation data catalog tool is used to search, query, and collaborate on large data sets, using machine learning to gain insights incredibly quickly. In my environment, I… Read the guide
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VMware PowerCLI One-Liners: 15+ Scripts for SysAdmins: Useful Commands and Examples
Managing a VMware environment by hand is a slow way to work. If you find yourself clicking through the vSphere Client to find powered-off VMs or check host… Read the guide
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How to Secure Cloud Infrastructure
This is a copy of an article I wrote for Atlantic.Net – All Rights Reserved Demand for cloud computing has grown exponentially in 2020, the Covid-19 global pandemic… Read the guide
