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Neeraj is a Cloud architect with over 10 years of experience in designing and building Cloud infrastructure and DevOps systems.
He is also a Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect, AWS certified: Associate Architect and Cloud Advocate. He has a passion for technology and sharing what he learns with others to help enable them to learn faster and be more productive.

• Infrastructure as code using ARM Templates and Azure DevOps Pipelines

  By Neeraj Singh on September 12, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Introduction Infrastructure as Code is a modern approach for automating the provisioning and deployment of IT resources. The idea is to use simple configuration files to define what IT resources we want to set up, and have those resources created… Read More ›

• Getting started with Azure Bicep – Next Generation ARM Templates

  By Neeraj Singh on May 16, 2021 • ( 0 )

  When we think about building the cloud infrastructure in Microsoft Azure platform, we always think of ARM (Azure Resource Manager) templates .There are many other ways to create resources i.e. Azure Portal, Azure PowerShell, CLI or Terraform. Most of us… Read More ›

• Day 10 – A Vase A Day Keeps The Anxiety Away

  By Neeraj Singh on May 11, 2021 • ( 0 )

  I will be making a new vase for each day of this lockdown. Or at least that is the plan. Day 10 – A Vase A Day Keeps The Anxiety Away

• How to setup Azure DevOps Self Hosted Build Agents using Azure Automation DSC

  By Neeraj Singh on December 24, 2020 • ( 0 )

  To build your code or deploy your application using Azure pipelines, you need at least one agent. As you add more code and people, you’ll eventually need more. There are typically two types of agents we can setup in Azure… Read More ›

• How to install the latest version of powershellget module

  By Neeraj Singh on November 23, 2020 • ( 1 )

  PowerShellGet is a module with commands for discovering, installing, updating and publishing PowerShell artifacts like Modules, DSC Resources, Role Capabilities, and Scripts. Step1: Set TLS1.2 as default protocol in the PS Session As of April 2020, the PowerShell Gallery no… Read More ›

• How to keep your cloud environment secure when working remotely

  By Neeraj Singh on July 5, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  As the whole world fights with Covid-19 pandemic, Organisations are being forced to quickly adapt new method of working. Ever since working remotely with teams distributed across multiple geographic locations and time zones becomes a new normal, keeping data and… Read More ›

• Introduction to AWS Key Management Service (KMS)

  By Neeraj Singh on June 13, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Data Encryption is still a best available mechanism when its about securing highly critical data stored in the cloud or on-premises. Organisational policies, or industry or government regulations, might require the use of encryption at rest to protect your data…. Read More ›

• AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

  By Neeraj Singh on June 4, 2020 • ( 1 )

  Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is the fundamental building block for your private network in AWS. VPC allows many types of AWS resources, such as EC2 instances, to communicate securely with each other, with the Internet, and with local networks…. Read More ›

• AWS DynamoDB Capacity Management

  By Neeraj Singh on June 2, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Read/Write Capacity Mode: When you provision Read Capacity Unit (RCU) and Write Capacity Unit (WCU) for Dynamo DB table, Always choose an option carefully after analysing the consumption as it may have a huge impact on the billing. The read/write… Read More ›

• AWS EC2 instance metadata and userdata

  By Neeraj Singh on May 30, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Instance Metadata: Instance metadata is data about your instance that you can use to configure or manage the running instance  Quick background: Instance metadata is data about an instance that can be used to manage the instance. Can be viewed by… Read More ›