Landing zone

The First Apply Is Local (and That's Fine)

The First Apply Is Local (and That's Fine)

TL;DR. The deployment chain that applies your IaC is itself infrastructure — and something has to create it first. Instead of hand-building the pipeline chain before the code could run, we appli

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The Second Landing Zone Is the Real Test of the First

The Second Landing Zone Is the Real Test of the First

TL;DR. We stamped out a second application landing zone from the first one. The diff between the two repos is six values: subscription, name acronym, address space, project, service connecti

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Deploying Azure Virtual Desktop End-to-End in a Landing Zone

Deploying Azure Virtual Desktop End-to-End in a Landing Zone

TL;DR. This is the deployment walkthrough for a fully private, Entra-only Azure Virtual Desktop environment inside a regulated Azure Landing Zone. Pooled Windows 11 multi-session on a **cust

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When terraform plan says 'no changes' and the feature is broken anyway

When terraform plan says 'no changes' and the feature is broken anyway

Everything was green. Workspace deployed, host pool up, users assigned, RBAC clean. Then a user opens Windows App and hits: "No devices or apps found." The feed never loads. Nothing in the Azure

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Azure Virtual Desktop in a regulated Landing Zone: the traps no doc tells you about

Azure Virtual Desktop in a regulated Landing Zone: the traps no doc tells you about

TL;DR. Deploying Azure Virtual Desktop fully private in a Landing Zone (Private Endpoints everywhere, Palo Alto NVA for egress, centralised DNS) works very well — once you know about a dozen

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Building 60+ Terraform Modules for an Azure Landing Zone

Building 60+ Terraform Modules for an Azure Landing Zone

Technical revision — 23 October 2026. The original publication date is unchanged. Historical implementation examples are distinguished below from current, versioned documentation. The original d

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Azure Landing Zone with Palo Alto NVA: Lessons Learned

Azure Landing Zone with Palo Alto NVA: Lessons Learned

Deploying Palo Alto VM-Series as a Network Virtual Appliance in an Azure Landing Zone sounds straightforward — until you actually do it. This article covers the hard-won lessons from building the fire

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SubnetWithNsg: How Azure Policy Deny Forced Me to Use azapi

SubnetWithNsg: How Azure Policy Deny Forced Me to Use azapi

Technical revision — 23 October 2026. The original publication date is unchanged. Historical implementation examples are distinguished below from current, versioned documentation. The original d

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