Posted: March 12, 2026 | | Tags: ARM Templates, Azure, Bicep, CI/CD, DevOps, GitHub Actions, Infrastructure as Code
Introduction ARM templates have long been the go-to for declarative Azure infrastructure, but their verbose JSON syntax makes them painful to read and maintain. Bicep is Microsoft’s answer — a cleaner domain-specific language that compiles down to ARM JSON. Pair... Posted: March 12, 2026 | | Tags: Automation, CI/CD, Entra ID, GitHub Actions, Microsoft Graph, PowerShell, Reporting
Introduction Most IT teams generate the same reports week after week — license usage, stale accounts, patch compliance, group membership changes. Done manually, these are tedious and easy to forget. Done with PowerShell and GitHub Actions, they run themselves on a... Posted: March 8, 2026 | | Tags: AI, CI/CD, Claude, DevOps, GitHub Actions
Every senior engineer has reviewed a pull request, spotted an obvious bug, and wondered why the submitter did not catch it themselves. Claude can be that first-pass reviewer — reading every PR automatically and leaving structured comments before a human even opens the... Updated: March 12, 2026 | | Tags: Azure, Azure Policy, CI/CD, GitHub Actions
Azure Policy is a powerful governance tool, but when policies are created manually through the portal they quickly become undocumented and inconsistent across environments. By storing policy definitions in a Git repository and deploying them through GitHub Actions,... 
