The Great IaC Conundrum

When it comes to Infrastructure as Code, today, you are presented with a number of options. What are the best way to interpret the options available, and when should you use one or the other? This post gives an honest of the options available. The options are endless, we are going to look at Bicep, ARM, Terraform, and Pulumi. Others are of course available, but this post features the main options when working with Microsoft Azure....

11 February 2022 · 9 min · Martyn

Cloud Native for IT Pros: Introduction

There is a medieval French phrase, the modern form of this is “Rome ne s’est pas faite en un jour”. Translated that means “Rome wasn’t built in a day”. It’s an adage attesting to the need for time to create great things. One of the things I commonly hear from IT Pros is the sheer amount of technology in play. How distributed it all is and how hard it is to learn if you don’t have a software engineering background....

3 September 2020 · 3 min · Martyn