Amazon Redshift is a data warehouse product released by Amazon Web Services (AWS) back in 2012, and it is one the most popular products of this cloud computing market leader. Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud, and it is available in two options: …

This story will list all the ports required to communicate with Active Directory Domain Controllers and how to create network security groups and firewall rules using Terraform to secure communications to AD Domain Controllers. We are going to talk about the following: Description of Ports used by Active Directory List…

In this story, we will learn how to enable Private Endpoint in Azure Manage Disks with Terraform. A private endpoint is a special network interface for an Azure service in our VNet (Virtual Network). We can use private endpoints to restrict the export and import of managed disks and access…

Terraform is the most popular Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool in the market, and in this Getting Starting with Terraform and OCI series, we will learn how to write Terraform code to automate our cloud infrastructure in Oracle Cloud. Part 1: Deploying network resources in OCI — this story Part…

The OCI Terraform provider supports four authentication methods: API Key Authentication Instance Principal Authorization Resource Principal Authorization Security Token Authentication In this story, we will set up the Terraform Provider for OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) using API Key Authentication. 1. Requirements This is the list of requirements to configure the OCI Terraform…

Azure Active Directory Domain Services (Azure AD Domain Services) or AADDS is a managed Active Directory service. It provides domain services such as domain join, group policy, lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP), and Kerberos/NTLM authentication. When we create an Azure AD DS managed domain, we define a unique namespace. This…

Thousands of companies worldwide rely on Active Directory for user authentication; these companies commonly implement a few domain controllers in Azure, running on a Virtual Machine (VM) to authenticate the user and applications running on the cloud. In this story, we will deploy two AD DCs. The first one, DC1…

Azure Bastion Host is a service that lets us connect to a virtual machine using our browser and the Azure portal or via the native SSH or RDP client already installed on our local computer. The Azure Bastion service is a fully platform-managed PaaS service that we provision inside our…

This story will teach us how to deploy a Qualys Virtual Scanner Appliance in Azure using Terraform. 1. Requirements To deploy a Qualys Virtual Scanner Appliance in Azure, we will need the following: Define the Azure Provider Create or use an existing Resource Group Create or use an existing VNET Create or…