CPCédric Poissonincedric-poisson.hashnode.dev·5d ago · 6 min readFrom a Working Active Directory to a Working SIEM: Automating Detection with OpenTofu, Ansible, and WazuhContext After automating the deployment of an Active Directory forest with OpenTofu and Ansible (see the previous article), the next step felt obvious: an AD with no monitoring is a blind infrastructu00
CPCédric Poissonincedric-poisson.hashnode.dev·Aug 28 · 7 min readFrom Zero to a Working Active Directory Forest — Automating Everything with OpenTofu and AnsibleA few weeks ago I set myself a challenge: build a fully working Active Directory lab on Azure — forest, domain controller, organizational units, group policies, a domain-joined client — without touchi00
CPCédric Poissonincedric-poisson.hashnode.dev·Aug 25 · 13 min readEvery Error I Hit Deploying Kubernetes on Azure With OpenTofu (and What Each One Taught Me)I spent a weekend turning an empty GitHub repo into a Kubernetes cluster running on Azure, provisioned entirely through code, deployed through a CI/CD pipeline that triggers on merge. That sentence to00
KEKingsley Erhatiemwonmoninkingzcloud.hashnode.dev·Aug 21 · 12 min readAzure DevOps Projects: VM Deployment, Three-Tier Architecture & AI Security AuditIntroduction My recent Azure projects have taken me through a progression from basic cloud infrastructure and application deployment to production-style architecture, troubleshooting, security auditin00
VPVikram Patilinaiusecases.hashnode.dev·Aug 15 · 17 min readThe AI Agent That Prepares Your Daily Standup1. The Business Use Case Technical managers burn the first hour of every day walking the Azure DevOps board — counting states, chasing overdue items, checking who is loaded with what — before they can00
SRSailesh Ravichandranindata-engineering-sailesh.hashnode.dev·Aug 4 · 11 min readDeduplication and Late-Arriving Data HandlingHow we stopped rewriting the entire lake every night and started scoping dedup work to exactly the partitions that changed Domain: Data Engineering Stack: Azure Databricks, Delta Lake (MERGE + Z-Orde00
DADr. Ankita Mehtainlegacy-to-modernapplicationmigration.hashnode.dev·Jul 16 · 9 min readAzure DevOps to Jira Migration: Planning, Mapping, and Common Pitfalls (2026)Moving from Azure DevOps to Jira is rarely just a data migration exercise. Whether the transition is driven by a merger, tool consolidation initiative, or a company-wide shift to Atlassian products, s00
RRitabritainto-cilium-from-scratch.hashnode.dev·Jul 9 · 2 min read30 Day Cilium Learning JourneyWhen it comes to observability in Azure, I've mostly worked with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, KQL, Alerts, and Network Watcher. These tools have helped me monitor workloads, inv00
ADAtash Dasinatashdas.hashnode.dev·Jul 8 · 14 min readAzure Hub-Spoke Network Provisioning from ConfigurationAbstract Enterprise Azure network architectures almost universally adopt the hub-spoke topology — a central hub virtual network that provides shared connectivity services (firewalls, VPN gateways, DNS00
FGFrances Georgeinvirtualmachineapache.hashnode.dev·Jul 2 · 12 min readDeploying Azure Virtual Machine Scales set with AutoscalingINTRODUCTION Scenario: PalmPay Millions of Nigerians initiate transfers, pay bills, and top up airtime at the same time during holidays like Christmas, Sallah, and end-of-month salary cycles, causing 00
