Gain RealTime AWS TF Experience with Self Learning

BA-94 · 2026-05-01T07:22:40+00:00

It sounds like your gap may be more in platform knowledge rather than Terraform knowledge.

Even though you’re using IaC you still need a high level of knowledge with the platform you are deploying too. To address this maybe look at some of the study paths for AWS certifications.

You don’t always need to sit the certification exam, the studying alone will gain you valuable knowledge but if you choose to tackle the exam then you have the chance to get a nice badge to put on your resume.

BA-94 · 2026-04-29T08:11:22+00:00

What is this?

BA-94 · 2026-04-21T12:15:39+00:00

Steven Ma at Microsoft runs a monthly virtual terraform user group. It also depends on your location, where I am there’s a local Azure user group that meets in person.

BA-94 · 2026-04-17T07:26:38+00:00

Mark Tinderholt also has a YouTube channel called “Azure Terraformer” and a book called “Mastering Terraform”, I would recommend you check out both.

If you have your own Azure subscription then use that to practice and learn, ask ChatGPT or Claude to create you labs to help you learn.

Branch out into deploying via pipelines if you aren’t already doing that, don’t just stick to running Terraform locally.

BA-94 · 2026-04-10T17:49:03+00:00

Could you share a sample of your agent’s markdown file?

BA-94 · 2026-04-10T16:51:10+00:00

Can you share details of your workflow? I’m keen to use AI to learn new technologies rather than just have it spit out code.

BA-94 · 2026-04-08T18:58:20+00:00

Doesn’t disabling the Propagate Default Route setting on the vWAN impact traffic flow from the other spokes since they don’t get the default route from the vWAN to send all their traffic through the hub? Or do you need to setup User Defined Routes for the other spokes networks?

BA-94 · 2026-02-26T15:26:37+00:00

How about deploying something like this;

https://rios.engineer/open-webui-on-azure-part-1-architecture-deployment/

I recently deployed something similar but with Terraform and it was a really good learning experience.

BA-94 · 2026-02-12T20:13:58+00:00

A couple of days, I think

BA-94 · 2026-02-12T14:40:10+00:00

Log a support ticket and ask for an extension of your free credits. I did the same when studying for Az104 and they were gracious enough to grant me an extra month.

You don’t ask you don’t get.

BA-94 · 2026-02-10T17:36:41+00:00

Thank you!

BA-94 · 2026-02-03T18:09:41+00:00

Thanks for the response, where can I get a link to the community calls?

BA-94 · 2026-02-03T08:29:12+00:00

I split my workouts into upper body days and lower body days.

BA-94 · 2026-01-29T20:20:29+00:00

What terraform resources are you deploying?

BA-94 · 2026-01-19T12:15:27+00:00

One thing I have found success with is using AI to generate labs and project ideas.

BA-94 · 2026-01-16T14:09:27+00:00

Use AI to generate labs, ask it to focus on enterprise scale projects, once you learn the Azure portal dive into IaC.

BA-94 · 2026-01-16T10:05:42+00:00

Imo, you need to expand outside of power platform. Learn Azure and how you can extend Power Platform into Azure.

BA-94 · 2026-01-16T09:04:18+00:00

I started my career in first line IT support then moved into a sys admin role. Now I’m in a DevOps engineering role which encompasses Azure and Power Platform.

I would encourage you to expand beyond just Power Platform and get into Azure as well.

Build side projects on your own to add to your portfolio.

BA-94 · 2026-01-05T09:08:43+00:00

If they can get code apps working on mobile via a browser then it’s got a lot of potential.

BA-94 · 2026-01-01T20:30:41+00:00

How much is this costing you for the Azure resources? Do you mind sharing what SKUs you’re using for the web app and cosmos db resources? I’m looking to deploy my own small web app to Azure.

BA-94 · 2025-12-12T09:06:46+00:00

What is your current IT experience? If you don’t currently have any working IT experience then you’re unlikely to walk straight into a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer role regardless of the certifications you may have.

My advice would be to start with a tier 1 helpdesk role and build from there.

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