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Terraform Module Design Is the Hard Part – So I Built an Agent Skill for It

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Building Terraform modules is rarely the hard part. The harder part is deciding whether a module should exist at all, where the boundary should sit, how much of the provider surface to expose, and which platform defaults should be opinionated rather than endlessly configurable. In this post, I walk through why I built a terraform-module-creator GitHub Copilot skill to help with that design work up front, using live Azure MCP and HashiCorp MCP guidance to shape better module boundaries, interfaces, documentation, validation, and long-term supportability.

Creating Diagrams with an Excalidraw Agent Skill and Excalidraw MCP

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Learn how an Excalidraw Agent Skill powered by Excalidraw MCP in GitHub Copilot can generate Cloud, Terraform, and workflow diagrams from natural language prompts.

Azure Pricing Skill for GitHub Copilot Using Azure MCP

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How I built the azure-pricing skill for GitHub Copilot, using Azure MCP and the Azure Retail Prices API to bring live Azure pricing into architecture and engineering workflows.

Azure Diagram Agent Skill with Draw.io MCP 

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Learn how to generate Azure architecture diagrams automatically using Draw.io MCP and GitHub Copilot Agent Skills. Build consistent, readable diagrams directly from structured inputs and integrate them into engineering workflows.

API Management – Disable Trusted Connectivity by March 2026

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If you are using Azure API Management service, you may get notified or see an Azure advisor recommendation regarding – Disable trusted service connectivity in API Management.  While reviewing Azure Advisor recommendations across multiple subscriptions, I noticed something interesting: only a subset of our API Management (APIM) services appeared in the advisor alerts. This prompted … Read more

Deploy Terraform to Azure with OIDC and GitHub Actions

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Recently I blogged about Deploying to Azure: Secure Your GitHub Workflow with OIDC, this is a follow on post – looking at deploying Terraform to Azure using OIDC and GitHub Actions With Microsoft and GitHub both emphasising identity-based access, using OIDC for Terraform deployments isn’t just secure. It will become the new norm. OIDC authentication … Read more

Deploying to Azure: Secure Your GitHub Workflow with OIDC

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OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication for GitHub Actions and Azure deployments is a real game-changer in the world of security. It significantly enhances security when deploying to your Azure environment. In this blog post, I’ll explain why to use OIDC, walk through setting up an Azure AD application with federated credentials using Azure CLI, and demonstrate … Read more

Getting current date and time in Azure Logic Apps using utcnow()

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Using Azure Logic Apps within your environment and wanting to get the current date and time within the Logic App? In this blog post I will show how you can do this with using the function utcNow() What is utcnow() ? utcNow(), as I mentioned above, is a function in Azure Logic Apps. It is … Read more

AKS Preview API lifecycle – Script to check if deprecated API versions are being used

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The post discusses an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) user’s experience with preview API retirements and shares a script to check current API versions in use. AKS preview APIs last about a year, and the script functionality includes querying the activity log for specific API versions. It generates a report detailing API usage, enabling proactive management to avoid deprecated versions and ensuring timely updates in Azure environments.

Using Terraform for Geo-Restore in Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server

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It was recently announced that you can now use Terraform to Geo-Restore within PostgreSQL Flexible server. I will show how you can do this within this blog post. Terraform support for Geo-Restore allows you to incorporate the functionality into your CI/CD tooling! What is Geo-Restore? Geo-Restore is a powerful disaster recovery feature for Azure Database … Read more