Episode
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Mark Tinderholt: The Azure Terraformer on Cloud Strategy and IaC Tools

In this episode, author and engineer Mark Tinderholt shares insights from his new book Mastering Terraform and his approach to using IaC across cloud platforms.

 Mark Tinderholt: The Azure Terraformer on Cloud Strategy and IaC Tools | The IaC Podcast

About the Episode

Mark Tinderholt joins us to talk through practical cloud decision-making, why he prefers Terraform in multi-cloud setups, and the realities of working with Azure policies, Bicep, ARM templates, and more.

About the Guest

Mark is an experienced technologist whose journey began in application development, spanning web and client-server applications to sophisticated distributed systems and microservices. Along this path, he developed deep expertise in automation and DevOps, leading diverse project teams and guiding organizations through strategic, operational, and pre-sales leadership roles. Currently, Mark holds a hands-on engineering position at Microsoft, contributing directly to the Microsoft Azure platform.

Beyond his professional work, Mark shares his passion for cloud computing through his YouTube channel, "The Azure Terraformer." He is also the author of "Mastering Terraform," a practical, multi-cloud guide to Cloud Architecture and Infrastructure-as-Code covering AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, and has created the Udemy course "Terraform 101.”

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