November 26, 2025
A private Azure Arc lab design that lets you learn governance patterns, vCenter onboarding, and policy testing without touching production.
Arc
Azure
Azure Arc
Governance
Hybrid
Lab
Networking
Private Link
Security
Terraform
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 18, 2025
Traditional Azure administration is becoming AI-assisted automation. Here's how to position yourself as an AI Admin instead of a human ticket processor - whether you're managing 40,000 resources or bootstrapping your first deployment.
azure
AI
Career
automation
Terraform
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
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
October 14, 2025
Deploy one VM to learn the variables. Deploy three VMs to learn you're wasting time. Code your fourth deployment or admit you're just clicking buttons for a living.
azure
Architecture
Terraform
IaC
Career
