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Cloud Tutorials and Platform Guides

Learn cloud computing with hands-on AWS, Azure, and OpenStack tutorials — VMs, storage, networking, IaC, and CI/CD on public and private clouds.

The Cloud section covers hands-on tutorials for AWS, Azure, and OpenStack.

Cloud computing lets you provision servers, storage, and networking on demand instead of managing everything on physical hardware. These guides walk through real tasks such as launching VMs, configuring object storage, setting up load balancers, and automating deployments with infrastructure-as-code.

You will find beginner-friendly overviews alongside step-by-step walkthroughs for specific services — from AWS EC2 and S3 to Azure App Service and AKS, and OpenStack private-cloud operations.

Each tutorial focuses on practical commands, portal steps, and configuration examples you can apply in lab or production environments.

Browse the articles below to get started with public cloud platforms or build and operate your own OpenStack environment.

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Cloud category illustration with AWS, Azure, and OpenStack architecture, EC2, S3, AKS, and Terraform graphics
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Ansible Azure Examples | Querying Azure VMs with Ansible

using ansible in azure to query vms. Examples to use ansible with Microsoft azure

Sahil Hulage11 min read
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Azure Blob Storage Explained [Tutorial With Examples]

Install and Configure Azure Blob Storage with screenshots. Different Types and features of azure blob storage

Sahil Hulage13 min read
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Azure File Sync Explained with Practical Examples

Using Microsoft azure file sync to centralize our organization's file shares in Azure Files, while keeping the flexibility, performance, and compatibility of an on-premises file server.

Sahil Hulage11 min read
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Azure Cost Management [Best Practices for Optimization]

Different tools available to perform Azure Cost Management. Best practices to optimize the Azure resource for minimal expenditure during the usage

Sahil Hulage9 min read
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Steps to Install and configure Controller Node in OpenStack – Part 2

Part 2 of step by step guide to install and configure controller node in openstack. To configure controller node in openstack we will configure glance, nova

Deepak Prasad20 min read
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Azure AD Groups Examples [Create & Manage]

Create and Manage Azure AD groups with Examples. Create Assigned and Dynamic group in Azure Active Directory. Assign and manage roles.

Sahil Hulage8 min read
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How to Install RabbitMQ on Azure

Step by step instructions to install RabbitMQ on Microsoft Azure.

Sahil Hulage5 min read
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Azure Tags Examples to Organize Resources

Azure tags are name and value pairs which can be assigned to resources in order to mange said resources more efficiently within the Azure cloud.

Sahil Hulage8 min read
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How to configure HAProxy in Openstack (High Availability)

Step by Step Guide to configure HAProxy in openstack i.e.High Availability using pacemaker and corosync to configure load balancer cluser in CentOS 7

Deepak Prasad14 min read
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How to Configure Tripleo Undercloud to deploy Overcloud in OpenStack

Step by Step guide to install tripleo (openstack on openstack) undercloud and deploy overcloud in Openstack using virtual machines on Red Hat (RHEL 7)

Deepak Prasad17 min read
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How to Install TripleO Undercloud (Openstack) on RHEL 7

Step by step guide to Install TripleO Undercloud and deploy Overcloud in Openstack with single compute and controller node on KVM (virt-manager) RHEL 7

Deepak Prasad14 min read
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Azure Database for PostgreSQL Deployment

Step by step instructions to use Azure Database for postgreSQL Deployment with examples

Sahil Hulage5 min read
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Azure Database For MySQL Deployment

As in this article, we understood the deployment and benefits of using Azure Database for MYSQL Deployment. It is used for performing database management functions at a flexible rate

Sahil Hulage5 min read
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Create Azure AD User [3 Methods With Examples]

3 different methods to create azure AD user with Azure Portal GUI, Azure CLI programmatically. Create Azure AD tenant with examples.

Sahil Hulage9 min read
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Azure Site to Site VPN Connection

Step by step instructions to configure Azure site to site VPN connection with screenshots.

Sahil Hulage6 min read
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Solved 'No valid host was found. not enough hosts available'

Fix Overcloud "No valid host was found. There are not enough hosts available" on Undercloud OpenStack with Red Hat — baremetal, IPMI, compute services, and flavor property mismatches.

Deepak Prasad5 min read
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Azure Resource Locks Usage Explained [Examples]

There are two types of azure resource locks i.e. read-only and delete lock. Azure Resource manager locks allow organizations to put safeguards in place that prevent the accidental deletion or modification of resources in …

Sahil Hulage10 min read
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Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Tutorial

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a managed Kubernetes container orchestration service in Azure. It helps removing the complexity of implementing, installing, maintaining, and securing Kubernetes in Azure

Sahil Hulage7 min read
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Create VM in Azure with 3 different methods [Step-by-Step]

Step by Step guide to create VM in Azure using Azure Portal, CLI, Powershell with screenshots

Sahil Hulage10 min read
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How to deploy SQL Database on Azure

In this tutorial we shared the step by step instructions to successfully deploy SQL Database on Azure.

Sahil Hulage5 min read
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Check Openstack version and mapped release information

Is there any single command to check openstack version or release name and how is Red Hat Openstack version mapping done.

Deepak Prasad2 min read
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Step-by-Step Tutorial: Install OpenStack on CentOS 7 using Packstack

Step by Step openstack installation Guide using packstack single node in centos or rhel 7 linux. Install Openstack on CentOS 7 using Packstack

Deepak Prasad12 min read
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How to troubleshoot OpenStack ironic introspection

Troubleshoot OpenStack ironic introspection for issues like Invalid provision state for introspection, Look up error: Could not find a node for attributes.

Deepak Prasad4 min read
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Solved: ironic node-delete is associated with instance

Here I have shared the steps to fix "ironic node-delete is associated with instance" where you fail to delete an ironic node accociated with an instance.

Deepak Prasad2 min read
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How to create and set property of flavor in OpenStack with examples

In this article I will show you the steps to create and set property of flavor with examples. Use openstack flavor set --property for existing flavors

Deepak Prasad5 min read
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Azure ARM Templates Explained with Examples

Azure ARM templates are an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methodology of deploying resources in the Azure cloud. They use declarative JSON to define resources and configurations.

Sahil Hulage10 min read
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Azure Policy Explained with Example [Step-by-Step]

Azure Policy is a service in Azure that you use to create, assign and manage policies. These polices are a mechanism through which we enforce compliance and enable auditing across our organization. Azure Policy does this …

Sahil Hulage8 min read
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Azure Active Directory Basics Explained

Azure Active Directory is the IAM service for the Azure cloud. Different AD features are IAM Platform, Identity Security, Collaboration and Development, Monitoring, identity Integration and Enterprise Access

Sahil Hulage8 min read
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Azure Blob Storage Lifecycle Management with Examples

Configure Object Replication, create storage account and configure Azure blob storage lifecycle management with step by step examples and screenshots from Azure portal

Sahil Hulage10 min read
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Azure File Share Explained [Tutorial With Examples]

Azure Files is a completely managed file share that you can mount just like any SMB file share. Create Azure File Share and mount the share on Linux VM with example screenshots and commands.

Sahil Hulage9 min read