Ryan Royals

Hi! I'm a passionate guy that loves all things Cloud, Automation, and Optimization. Not a programmer but spend a lot of time in the ecosystem working with startups, specializing deeply in Terraform and Azure.

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Using a Squid Container to Quickly Capture Requested URLs

Picture of Ryan Royals Ryan Royals: Feb 27, 2025 8:58:03 AM

Odds are whether you work in any Application or Infrastructure team, a someone will someday ask you "What are the URLs you need to get added to our...

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Can't resolve Storage Account DNS from VNET, but can from Internet

Picture of Ryan Royals Ryan Royals: Jun 17, 2024 10:00:00 AM

An ambiguous name for a hard to track down issue! When you are doing a NSlookup for a blob endpoint on a Storage Account in a Virtual Network in...

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Building Multi-Environment Terraform Projects in Azure

Picture of Ryan Royals Ryan Royals: May 27, 2024 3:06:45 PM

Howdy! In my previous article about Getting Started with Terraform I talked about what Terraform is, why it's neat-o, and a small example on getting...

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Getting Started with Terraform

Picture of Ryan Royals Ryan Royals: Jan 29, 2024 8:00:00 AM

What is Infrastructure as Code? Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a broad term used for the approach and tooling to manage infrastructure in scripts...

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