November 24, 2025
Complete Terraform code for Azure AI Foundry RAG: secure, repeatable, version-controlled deployment. Includes private endpoints, managed identity, monitoring, cost controls, and search integration. What YouTube tutorials skip for enterprise production.
azure
Terraform
Infrastructure as Code
Azure AI Foundry
RAG
devops
November 16, 2025
After our third 'who deleted the state file' incident, I finally set up proper Terraform remote state. 30 minutes of work eliminated an entire category of disasters. Here's exactly how to do it, with zero fluff.
azure
Terraform
Infrastructure as Code
devops
November 08, 2025
Real-world troubleshooting guide for Terraform CI/CD pipelines. These are the issues I've actually encountered in production - and how to fix them fast.
azure
Terraform
devops
CICD
IaC
troubleshooting
November 07, 2025
Scale from single environment to Dev/Test/Prod with separate state files, environment-specific approvals, and production hardening. This is how enterprises actually run Terraform.
azure
Terraform
devops
CICD
IaC
Azure DevOps
Production
November 06, 2025
Enforce GitOps workflow with branch policies that require reviews, trigger automated validation, and prevent direct commits to main. No cowboy deployments allowed.
azure
Terraform
devops
CICD
IaC
Azure DevOps
GitOps
November 05, 2025
Build the release pipeline that deploys approved Terraform plans with pre-deployment approval gates and audit trails. This is where governance happens.
azure
Terraform
devops
CICD
IaC
Azure DevOps
November 04, 2025
Before you migrate, modernize, or even look at the cloud — you must know what you own, what it costs, and whether it should exist. This is not a migration step. It's a business survival step.
Rationalization
FinOps
devops
azure
governance
Architecture
Security
Cost Allocation
November 04, 2025
Build the two pipelines that validate Terraform code on pull requests and create deployment artifacts on merge. GUI-based, no YAML, full control.
azure
Terraform
devops
CICD
IaC
Azure DevOps
November 03, 2025
Enterprise-grade Infrastructure as Code with pull request approvals, Key Vault secrets, and zero manual portal changes. This is the exact setup I use in production - GUI pipelines, not YAML.
azure
Terraform
devops
CICD
IaC
Azure DevOps
November 02, 2025
The complete 6-part guide to deploying Azure infrastructure with Terraform through Azure DevOps - with pull request approvals, Key Vault secrets, and zero manual portal changes. This is how enterprises actually run Infrastructure as Code.
azure
Terraform
devops
CICD
IaC
Azure DevOps
Series
October 27, 2025
Most guides say 'comment the why, not the what.' Azure admins need more: comments that double as runbooks, audit trails, and change-board briefs.
azure
devops
kql
powershell
Terraform
governance
September 29, 2025
Three hours debugging certificate errors on fresh marketplace VMs. The culprit? Microsoft's own infrastructure serving outdated dependencies.
azure
powershell
automation
devops
troubleshooting
