Hello Folks! If you have ever stood up a marketplace Ubuntu VM, SSH’d in, layered on your monitoring agent, security tooling, a couple of CA certs, and a hardening script, then captured the result ...

Hello Folks! If you have ever come back from vacation to find a “mystery” storage account no one remembers creating, or watched a junior admin nuke a production resource because they clicked the wr...

Hello Folks! If your AKS cluster looks like most production clusters I have walked through, one of two things is true. Either nobody writes any network policies and every pod can talk to every othe...

Hello Folks! This Microsoft Azure Infra Summit 2026 sessions one is for everyone running production workloads on AKS. Jack Stromberg from the Application Gateway product team walked us through the ...

Hello Folks! If your IaC repo has a dev folder, a test folder, and a prod folder that all started out identical and have since drifted in three different directions, this session is for you. At the...

Hello Folks! If you have been writing Bicep or Terraform for Azure over the last few years, you have probably lived this story. You pick a community module, it works great for six months, then the ...

Hello Folks! Welcome back to my coverage of the Microsoft Azure Infra Summit 2026. This session is one I have been looking forward to, because if you have ever stood up an Azure Landing Zone (ALZ) ...

Hello Folks! If you sat through this session during the Microsoft Azure Infra Summit 2026, you already know that Anand Guruswami and Arun Rabindar from the Cloud Native Experiences team showed us s...

Hello Folks! Picture this. A regulator hands you a one-pager that says, in essence, “this data does not leave the building.” Or your link to Azure decides to take a nap during a critical batch run....

When a Virtual Machine Scale Set needs to scale out, it normally uses a single VM size (also known as SKU). Whilst that is simple, it can also become a constraint. For example the scale out might be ...