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Item-level CI/CD in Microsoft Fabric is a settled capability. The unsolved problem is source of truth and tenant governance as code — the workspaces, capacity, domains, tenant settings, connections, and roles that Git integration does not manage. A blueprint for tenant-as-code.
IaC is a skill that compounds. These practices become second nature and save countless hours of debugging and recovery.
IaC maturity is a journey, not a destination. Start where you are, establish good practices early, and continuously improve. The goal is infrastructure that…
Azure Deployment Environments addresses these challenges with templated, self-service infrastructure.
The Bicep Registry is essential for scaling infrastructure as code across enterprise organizations.
Bicep in 2022 is production-ready and the best choice for Azure infrastructure as code.
IaC maturity in 2021 meant treating infrastructure code with the same rigor as application code. The tools support it; the discipline makes it work.
ARM Template Specs provide a governed, versioned approach to managing infrastructure templates. With native RBAC integration and first class Azure resource…
Bicep modules enable clean, maintainable Azure infrastructure code. By separating concerns into modules, you create reusable components that can be shared…
Pulumi is the infrastructure-as-code choice for teams where "I don't want to learn another DSL" is a genuine constraint. You write infrastructure in C#…
Terraform with the AzureRM provider is the infrastructure-as-code choice I recommend to teams that need multi-cloud portability or already have Terraform…
I've written a lot of ARM templates in the past three years, and I've also inherited a lot of ARM templates written by people who were having a bad day. The…
The first time I helped a platform team stand up a new environment from scratch, we got it right on the third try. The first two tries had a RBAC assignment…