As part of the Azure Spring Clean 2025 event for 2025, we are here to take a look at Azure Landing Zones, specifically Platform Landing Zones, and the deployment of the Platform Landing Zone, using an accelerator and Azure DevOps for the CI/CD.
Today, we will touch on how Microsoft releases changes globally across the Microsoft Azure ecosystem. It always amazes me how Microsoft can release changes daily across Azure without customers noticing (the majority of the time), yet they benefit from new capabilities swiftly.
Microsoft has implemented several quality stages for Azure, and they are continuously enhancing platform automation and processes to ensure Azure service changes have zero impact on customer workloads. Let's take a look at how Microsoft is achieving this.
Would you like to know how Azure releases changes to Production while maintaining high Quality and Agility? Azure implements hundreds of changes daily without customers noticing, yet they benefit from new capabilities swiftly. You can learn about the quality stages for Azure and how they are learning to help ensure Microsoft continuously enhances platform automation and processes to ensure Azure service changes have zero impact on customer workloads.
The Azure Developer CLI (azd) is an open-source tool that accelerates provisioning and deploying app resources on Azure, it is great for deploying resources quickly and easily - especially in a proof of concept, or rapid innovation scenario.
One of the resources you can deploy (both Infrastructure and Application) is a Azure Static Web App recently, I ran into an issue where I was deploying a backend Azure Function, and I needed a react web application front end hosted on the Azure Static WebApp to pull the function app URL and function key from the runtime environment variables, and quickly realized that React does not support runtime environment variables - only build-time environment variables.
Today, we will implement a Terraform bootstrap script that will install Terraform and create directories where we can place our Terraform project, which will then run a plan against and deploy. This script will be written in PowerShell to bootstrap a new Terraform project.
"Bootstrapping usually refers to a self-starting process that is supposed to continue or grow without external input. Many analytical techniques are often called bootstrap methods in reference to their self-starting or self-supporting implementation" ~ Wikipedia.
