Jesse Loudon is a cloud and security engineer who writes about Microsoft Azure, Terraform, Terragrunt, Azure Policy as Code, and enterprise-scale cloud governance with practical, real-world insights.
10 articles from this blog
Three Terragrunt file patterns for orchestrating complex Terraform deployments at scale, including input mapping and data aggregation.
A technical guide sharing key lessons and architectural insights from migrating a traditional hub-and-spoke network to Azure Virtual WAN.
A technical guide on deploying Palo Alto Cloud NGFW with Strata Cloud Manager using Terraform and AzAPI on Azure.
A guide to managing Azure Databricks workspace IP access lists using CICD pipelines and the Databricks CLI, covering authentication and tooling challenges.
A guide to implementing security governance using Azure Policy as Code with Bicep, based on a Microsoft Reactor presentation.
A developer shares their journey discovering Azure Policy and Open Policy Agent, leading to the creation of a curated community resource list.
A guest discusses Azure Policy as Code on the Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast, covering Bicep, DevOps workflows, and best practices.
A technical guide on troubleshooting and resolving Azure Policy non-compliance issues, specifically for diagnostic settings on AKS clusters.
A technical talk summary on using Terraform with CSVs and ForEach loops to achieve DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principles for scalable infrastructure-as-code deployments.
A guide to implementing Azure Policy as Code using Bicep, presented at Global Azure 2021, with three levels of complexity.
