About
Platform Fieldnotes is a working notebook for people who design, build and operate cloud platforms on Azure. It focuses on the engineering decisions behind landing zones, infrastructure as code and the automation that keeps managed environments healthy.
Principles
- Field-tested. Notes drawn from building and running real platforms, written down while the details are still fresh.
- Code first. Terraform, Bicep, pipelines and scripts are treated as primary material, not afterthoughts.
- Operations aware. Architecture is judged by how it behaves on day two: governance, cost, change and support.
Topics
- Azure Platform Engineering: Designing internal Azure platforms: shared services, developer experience, guardrails and the operating model around them.
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform and Bicep in practice: module design, state, testing, versioning and delivery pipelines.
- Azure Landing Zones: Management groups, policy, networking and subscription vending for enterprise-scale Azure foundations.
- Cloud Architecture: Architecture and governance decisions: resilience, identity, cost, security baselines and their trade-offs.
- MSP Automation: Automation for managed service providers: multi-tenant operations, onboarding, monitoring and repeatable delivery.
- DevOps: CI/CD with GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps, release practices and the platform engineering feedback loop.
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Contact
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