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327 Stories by kpantos

Multi-Protocol NFS Volumes in Azure: Pitfalls and Design Choices

Dual-protocol volumes in Azure NetApp Files are one of those features that sound like a solved problem in the Azure portal and turn into...
0 6 min read

Deploying Applications to VMSS Built from Golden Images: The GitHub Actions Playbook

The golden images post left off with a versioned, validated, agent-equipped image sitting in a Compute Gallery, pinned by whatever consumes it. That’s the...
0 8 min read

The Approach to Patch Management in Azure: CAF, WAF, and Azure Update Manager in Practice

Patch management has a way of looking solved right up until you actually have to design it at landing zone scale. Every VM needs...
0 6 min read

Golden Images in Azure: Two Ways to Build Them, and When Each One Wins

Every organization running more than a handful of VMs arrives at the same problem eventually. Someone spins up a marketplace Ubuntu image, SSHs in,...
1 7 min read

Composability in Azure Verified Modules

The earlier post on adopting Azure Verified Modules as an enterprise IaC standard covered the trade-off decision — what you gain, what you give...
0 6 min read

Deployment Agent in Practice: From Prompt to Pull Request

Most of what’s been written about the Azure Copilot Deployment Agent describes it from the outside: it takes a high-level goal, applies Well-Architected Framework...
0 3 min read

Azure Resource Graph: The Quiet Backbone of Every New Copilot Agent

If you read Azure Copilot’s New Agent Lineup: What Changes Today, and What Platform Teams Should Do About It, you already know the headline:...
0 5 min read

Azure SRE Agent vs. the Azure Copilot Agent Lineup: A Field Guide

If you’ve already read Azure Copilot’s New Agent Lineup: What Changes Today, and What Platform Teams Should Do About It, you know the governance...
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Azure Copilot’s New Agent Lineup: What Changes today, and What Platform Teams Should Do About It

Today marks a shift in how Azure Copilot worked, not just a feature bump. Up to now, Azure Copilot has offered a single combined...
2 4 min read

Adopting Azure Verified Modules as Your Enterprise IaC Standard: What You Gain and What You Give Up

Every platform team that reaches a certain scale ends up asking the same question: do we keep hand-rolling our own Bicep or Terraform modules,...
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