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The other day I ran into one of those Azure deployment problems that looks reasonable right up until you understand which service is actually making the call.

I had provisioned an Azure Key Vault with enabled_for_template_deployment set to true. I was familiar with this setting from working with …

Problem Space

When deploying Azure solutions with Infrastructure as Code, we often create role assignments as part of the deployment. For example, a Bicep deployment may give a Function App’s managed identity access to a Key Vault, storage account, or Service Bus namespace.

It is easy to focus …

Problem Space

Role assignments are one of those areas in Azure that look simple on the surface, but can become awkward pretty quickly once you start automating them properly.

Anyone who has worked with RBAC through IaC for long enough will usually run into the same set of problems.

There are usually …

Over the last few years, Azure Logic Apps Standard has become a core building block for many integration workloads. The platform gives us flexibility, connector richness, and scalable runtime options, but as workflow solutions grow, so does the risk profile.

In many teams, validation still leans …