Azure Marketplace VMs Ship with Broken winget - Use Chocolatey Instead
January 22, 2026
Fresh Windows 11 Enterprise N VMs from Azure Marketplace have broken winget dependencies. Here's the Chocolatey automation that actually works.
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Azure Policy Reality Check: Why Your Guardrails Fail After 30 Days
December 20, 2025
Azure Policy is powerful on paper, but in enterprise environments the guardrails collapse almost immediately. Here's why your policies stop working and what it takes to build a policy framework that survives production.
Azure AI Foundry + Terraform: Production RAG Infrastructure as Code (Not Portal Clickops)
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.
From Chaos to Enterprise: How I Set Up Terraform Remote State in Azure (And Why You Need This Yesterday)
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.
Terraform + Azure DevOps CI/CD: Part 6 - Troubleshooting & Common Production Issues
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.
Terraform + Azure DevOps CI/CD: Part 5 - Production Best Practices & Multi-Environment Setup
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.
Terraform + Azure DevOps CI/CD: Part 4 - Branch Policies & Pull Request Automation
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.
Terraform + Azure DevOps CI/CD: Part 3 - Release Pipeline & Approval Gates
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.
Software Rationalization: The Step Zero That Works in a DevOps World
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.
Terraform + Azure DevOps CI/CD: Part 2 - Build Pipelines (Status Check & Plan)
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.
Terraform + Azure DevOps CI/CD: Part 1 - Prerequisites & Architecture
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.
Enterprise-Grade Terraform CI/CD in Azure DevOps - Complete Series
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.
Commenting for Continuity: Why My Code Comments Don't Look Like Yours (On Purpose)
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.
Why Your Automation Fails on Fresh Azure VMs (And How I Fixed It)
September 29, 2025
Three hours debugging certificate errors on fresh marketplace VMs. The culprit? Microsoft's own infrastructure serving outdated dependencies.