Simon
13-10-2025
Simon
Cloud Engineer focused on Azure, Terraform & PowerShell. Passionate about automation, efficient solutions, and sharing real-world cloud projects and insights.
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Simon
13-10-2025
Sending Custom Logs to Log Analytics via HTTP
Centralized logging is a cornerstone of any professional IT or DevOps setup. Azure Log Analytics (LAW) / Azure Monitor provides…
Simon
04-10-2025
Automated Terraform Deployments with GitHub
Managing infrastructure through Terraform is powerful — but doing it securely and automatically is where real efficiency begins. In this…
Simon
31-08-2025
Azure Service Groups – A New Way to Organize Your Cloud
Microsoft has recently introduced Azure Service Groups (public preview since August 2025) – a feature designed to bring flexibility and…
Simon
06-08-2025
Auditing Azure VM Operating Systems
Managing a growing Azure environment often means dealing with multiple subscriptions, distributed teams, and a wide range of virtual machine…
Simon
27-07-2025
VM Power Management in Azure Using Tags, Runbooks, and a Custom GUI
As a Cloud Solutions Engineer, optimizing costs and automating operations is a daily priority. One of the common challenges in…
Simon
19-07-2025
Collecting GPU Metrics on Azure VMs with Telegraf
When working with GPU-enabled Azure virtual machines — such as those used for AI training, inference, or video rendering —…
Simon
12-07-2025
Azure Template Specs: Reusable ARM Templates
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is undoubtedly the gold standard when it comes to modern cloud infrastructure. Tools like Bicep, Terraform,…
Simon
05-07-2025
Using Terraform to Generate Local Zip Files
Terraform is most commonly used to provision infrastructure — VMs, storage accounts, networking, etc. But sometimes, your infrastructure code also…
Simon
27-06-2025
Terraform vs ARM vs Bicep – Which IaC Tool Should You Use for Azure?
In the world of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), several tools are available for deploying and managing Azure resources programmatically. The…
Simon
21-06-2025
Quickly Find Azure VMs Without NSG Protection
Network Security Groups (NSGs) are a key security feature in Azure, acting as virtual firewalls to control network traffic to…