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How to design and operate a secure, global HTTP(S) edge on Azure using Azure Front Door: routing patterns, WAF, origin lockdown, TLS gotchas, observability, and troubleshooting.

Ensuring our Terraform modules are well-documented is a key part of our development process. But, let’s be honest, keeping docs up-to-date is a tedious task! Luckily, there’s an efficient tool out there that makes the process simpler and quicker – terraform-docs! Terraform-docs is an open-source, cross-platform tool, that can automatically generate comprehensive documentation for your […]

When I sit down to craft a Terraform module, I ask myself how future me—and the teams inheriting my code—will reason about every decision. I remind myself to start with clarity, keep security opinionated but flexible, and prove the workflow end to end before anyone else runs terraform apply. I literally keep a checklist on […]

A practical reference from first contact to writing your own modules Table of Contents What Ansible Is and How It Thinks Ansible is: Key properties: A mental model: Ansible Architecture At a high level: Key components: Installing and Setting Up Ansible On Linux Most common: Or from your package manager (versions may lag): On macOS […]

Repository: https://github.com/SalehElnagar/azure-terraform-conventions This article walks through how to think about Azure naming conventions and how to turn those decisions into code using the azure-terraform-conventions GitHub repository. That repo contains: The goal is not “just use whatever the repo does”. The goal is: capture your organization’s naming decisions once, codify them with this library, and then […]

Ingress migrations are rarely “just routing.” They’re one of the few moments where you’re forced to touch the edge, which means you can also fix the stuff that quietly rots over time: The core move is simple: Don’t migrate YAML → YAML. Migrate to a desired state — and encode that state as Terraform. This […]

Master Azure Artifacts packaging, retention, and governance to empower hybrid DevSecOps teams shipping from monorepos, microservices, and data science workloads. Why Azure Artifacts Matters Azure Artifacts provides a first-party, enterprise-grade package management service within the Azure DevOps ecosystem. It supports multi-format feeds (NuGet, npm, Maven, PyPI, Universal Packages) with integrated build automation, permissions, and compliance […]

In global enterprises, the Azure Virtual WAN (VWAN) enterprise fabric is no longer a purely network-engineering effort. The DevOps engineer has become the connective tissue that translates intent into approved designs, reproducible infrastructure, and validated operations. This article dives deep into why their contributions inside design sessions are vital, and how a single DevOps leader […]

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is now the standard way to manage and provision cloud resources, and Terraform is one of the most widely adopted tools to do this on Azure. But Terraform needs credentials to talk to Azure: client IDs, client secrets, certificates, tokens, subscription IDs, and more. Those credentials are extremely powerful. If they […]