Azure Managed Grafana: diagnose API access before recreating a token
A production runbook for separating expiration, audience, Grafana role and deployed-secret drift when Azure Managed Grafana automation receives a 401 or 403.
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AgentOps: diagnose MCP tool shadowing before a production action
A production runbook for detecting MCP tool collisions, proving which tool the agent actually selected and validating a canary catalog before any sensitive action.
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A production runbook for reconstructing the effects of a canceled Azure DevOps deployment, proving target state, and choosing an idempotent resume, compensation or rollback.
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A production runbook for tying expiry, scope, assignment and compliance together before renewing an Azure Policy exemption or disabling the guardrail.
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A production runbook for measuring VNet Integration subnet capacity, separating address pressure from delegation and path failures, then validating resize or migration with rollback.
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A production runbook for separating ARM rollout, WAF associations, rule priority and request variance before a global Application Gateway policy rollback.
Read articleAzure DevOps: contain a compromised self-hosted agent before reopening the pool
A production runbook for quarantining a suspicious Azure DevOps self-hosted agent, preserving evidence, bounding exposed identities and validating a clean replacement before the pool receives production jobs again.
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A production runbook for separating legitimate automation, spoofed identities and hostile bot traffic before changing Azure WAF Bot Manager actions.
Read articleMicrosoft Sentinel: validate a watchlist before it drives automated response
A production runbook for proving watchlist freshness, schema, SearchKey, deletions and KQL behavior before allowing it to influence automated response.
Read articleAzure Resource Locks: diagnose a blocked deployment before removing the lock
A production runbook for separating inherited Azure management locks, RBAC, Policy and deny assignments, then validating a bounded unlock, deployment and rollback.
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A production runbook for proving that an agent fallback model preserves structured outputs, tool boundaries, refusals and traceability before routing live traffic.
Read articleAzure Service Bus: diagnose message-lock loss before extending auto-renewal
A production runbook for separating processing time, connection loss, renewal failure and late settlement before extending an Azure Service Bus message lock.
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A production runbook for isolating hostile instructions carried by MCP tool output, preserving provenance, enforcing policy outside the model, and validating or rolling back write access.
Read articleAzure DevOps: prove artifact provenance before production promotion
A production runbook for tying an Azure DevOps artifact to its source, build run, digest and approval before promotion, quarantine or rollback.
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A production runbook for tying source commit, sync job, draft, published version, no-effect test and rollback together before allowing Azure Automation to act.
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A production runbook for separating redelivery, splitOn, concurrency and ambiguous retries, then enforcing idempotency without removing workflow resilience.
Read articleAzure DevOps: diagnose a queued job before adding self-hosted agents
A production runbook for separating parallel-job capacity, pool authorization, demands, capabilities and agent eligibility before scaling an Azure DevOps self-hosted pool.
Read articleAzure Automation: rotate a webhook before the production trigger expires
A production runbook for inventorying Azure Automation webhook consumers, introducing a second endpoint, proving one execution per event, cutting over and revoking the old URL with a tested rollback.
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A production runbook for bounding a secret leak in Azure DevOps logs, preserving evidence, revoking access, validating redaction and deciding recovery or rollback.
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A production runbook for inventorying Key Vault access, staging data-plane roles, cutting over to Azure RBAC with real probes, validating workloads and rolling back without broadening permissions.
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A production runbook for qualifying OpenTelemetry tail sampling across trace affinity, late spans, memory pressure, policy coverage, Azure Monitor evidence, canary rollout and rollback.
Read articleAzure Container Registry: migrate Docker Content Trust to Notation without opening the delivery chain
A production runbook for inventorying Docker Content Trust, dual-signing with Notation, validating digests, and cutting over CI/CD gates with an explicit rollback.
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A production runbook for proving Azure Resource Graph scope, identity, pagination and result completeness before an inventory drives automated changes.
Read articleMicrosoft Foundry: diagnose a content-filter spike before weakening guardrails
A production runbook for separating blocked prompts, filtered outputs, application errors and policy drift before changing Microsoft Foundry guardrails.
Read articleMicrosoft Sentinel: diagnose a silent scheduled detection before widening its lookback
A production runbook for separating source ingestion, latency, analytics-rule execution, KQL windows and incident creation before changing a Microsoft Sentinel detection.
Read articleAzure API Management AI gateway: validate a backend circuit breaker before production failover
A production runbook for qualifying circuit breakers, Retry-After, Microsoft Foundry backend pools, canary traffic, observability and rollback before enabling AI API failover.
Read articleAzure App Service: validate all-traffic VNet routing before production cutover
A production runbook for validating App Service all-traffic VNet routing across application calls, image pulls, content storage, backups, managed identity, firewall evidence and rollback.
Read articleAgentOps: prevent MCP token forwarding before production actions
A production runbook for proving token audience, delegation, scopes and runtime identity across an MCP tool chain before restoring state-changing actions.
Read articleAzure Container Registry: diagnose incomplete image replication before retrying a multi-region rollout
A production runbook for separating ACR replication, regional routing, digests, identity and network paths before retrying or rolling back a container rollout.
Read articleAzure Managed Identity: diagnose principal drift after resource recreation
A production runbook for proving that a recreated Azure resource has a new principalId, finding orphaned roles and restoring least privilege without broadening RBAC.
Read articleAzure VMSS: diagnose an automatic repair loop before changing the action
A production runbook to separate health signal, grace period, service state, VMSS model and local data before changing Replace, Reimage or Restart.
Read articleAzure Backup: validate a VM restore before declaring the recovery path ready
A production runbook for testing an Azure VM recovery point in isolation, validating the system and application, measuring recovery, then deciding readiness, remediation or rollback.
Read articleAzure Monitor Managed Prometheus: contain a cardinality spike before raising quotas
A production runbook for isolating the metric, target and labels behind an AKS time-series spike before filtering collection, adding capacity or rolling back.
Read articleAzure App Service: diagnose Health Check failures before restarting instances
A production runbook for separating a faulty health endpoint, instance degradation, redirects, authentication and dependency failures before restarting or changing App Service Health Check.
Read articleMCP Roots is deprecated: migrate file scope without expanding access
A production runbook for replacing MCP Roots with tool parameters, resource URIs or server configuration while preserving path controls, canary evidence and rollback.
Read articleAzure Automation: validate a runtime migration before cutting production runbooks over
A production runbook for qualifying a new Azure Automation runtime environment across versions, packages, Hybrid Workers, no-effect tests, canary execution, validation and rollback.
Read articleGitHub Actions: validate a reusable workflow before trusting it with an Azure deployment
A production runbook for qualifying a reusable GitHub Actions workflow through permissions, secrets, OIDC, environments, traces, canary validation and rollback before an Azure deployment.
Read articleAgentOps: invalidate stale evidence before a production action
A production runbook for bounding evidence age across retrieval, telemetry and tool results before an AI agent proposes, executes or rolls back an operational action.
Read articleAzure API Management: validate a shared policy fragment before production rollout
A production runbook for inventorying references, versioning an APIM policy fragment, testing it on a canary API revision, correlating traces and deciding promotion or rollback.
Read articleAzure NSG: validate a Service Tag rule before rollout
A production runbook for qualifying an Azure NSG rule based on a Service Tag using regional scope, real prefixes, effective rules, flow tests, canary rollout and rollback.
Read articleAzure APIM: diagnose backend TLS before disabling certificate validation
A production runbook for separating trust chain, hostname, SNI, expiry, TLS protocol and APIM configuration before disabling backend certificate validation.
Read articleAgentOps: validate regional failover before rerouting a production agent
A production runbook for qualifying an AI agent regional failover across model deployment, state, retrieval, tools, identity, traces, canary traffic, validation and rollback.
Read articleAzure DevOps: diagnose workspace contamination before recreating a self-hosted agent
A production runbook for separating persistent sources, outputs, caches and machine state on a self-hosted Azure DevOps agent before cleanup, quarantine or recreation.
Read articleAgentOps: revalidate a stale approval before resuming a production action
A production runbook for detecting and revalidating stale human approval across state drift, request fingerprints, expiry, traces, refusal tests and rollback before an AI agent resumes an action.
Read articleMicrosoft Sentinel: validate a remediation playbook before production action
A production runbook for bounding a Microsoft Sentinel playbook across trigger, entities, identity, dry run, approval, traces, canary and rollback before any remediation action.
Read articleAzure App Service: diagnose TLS renewal before rebinding production
A production runbook to separate certificate issuance, Key Vault version, App Service import and hostname binding before syncing, rebinding or rolling back TLS.
Read articleAzure Update Manager: diagnose a maintenance window before forcing patching
A production runbook for qualifying an incomplete Azure Update Manager campaign across dynamic scope, orchestration, window budget, installation, reboot and validation before any out-of-window retry.
Read articleAzure PostgreSQL: diagnose read replica lag before promotion
A production runbook to qualify Azure Database for PostgreSQL read replica lag, prove the achievable RPO, and choose repair, planned switchover, or forced promotion.
Read articleAzure Monitor: diagnose suppressed notifications before changing the alert
A production runbook to prove that an alert processing rule suppresses notifications, bound its scope, validate recovery, and keep a rollback path.
Read articleAzure App Configuration: diagnose feature flag drift before rollback
A production runbook for qualifying inconsistent feature flag evaluations across instances by separating version, refresh, cache, targeting, telemetry and rollback.
Read articleAzure Logic Apps: contain connector throttling before adding retries
A production runbook for separating Logic Apps limits, connector throttling and downstream saturation, then reducing concurrency, validating a canary or rolling back without amplifying 429 responses.
Read articleGitHub Actions: prove artifact provenance before production deployment
A production runbook for tying commit, workflow, digest, attestation, approval and Azure identity together before promoting a GitHub Actions artifact.
Read articleAzure AKS: diagnose a stuck rollout before forcing rollback
A production runbook for locating an AKS rollout stalled across Deployment, ReplicaSet, scheduling, image and readiness, then resuming or returning to a known revision with explicit stop conditions.
Read articleTerraform on Azure: contain concurrent applies before state divergence
A production runbook for proving which Terraform writer owns an Azure Blob state lease, stopping competing pipelines, recovering a stale lock and validating state before another apply.
Read articleAzure ACR and AKS: verify an image signature before production promotion
A production runbook for pinning an ACR digest, verifying its Notation signature, scoping trust policy, promoting by digest, and rolling back without disabling provenance controls.
Read articleAzure API Management: contain a retry storm before scaling the backend
A production runbook for proving retry amplification in Azure API Management, protecting an overloaded backend, and choosing a bounded policy change, circuit breaker or rollback.
Read articleAzure Monitor DCR: diagnose missing logs before rolling back a transformation
A production runbook for qualifying missing logs after a Data Collection Rule change, separating source, stream, KQL transformation and destination, then validating or rolling back with a canary.
Read articleAzure SQL: diagnose connection pool exhaustion before scaling
A production runbook to separate connection leaks, SQL saturation, network latency and identity renewal before increasing the service tier.
Read articleAzure Service Bus: diagnose the dead-letter queue before a bounded replay
A production runbook for classifying dead-lettered messages, proving the cause, checking idempotency and replaying with a canary without creating a second incident.
Read articleAzure Automation: diagnose a Hybrid Runbook Worker that stops picking up jobs
A production runbook for separating queueing, heartbeat, extension, network, capacity, identity and runtime failures before retrying a Hybrid Worker job.
Read articleAzure Policy: bound a remediation task before it rewrites production
A production runbook for validating the target set, identity, roles, canary, logs and rollback of an Azure Policy remediation before scaling it out.
Read articleAzure Event Hubs: diagnose consumer lag before scaling or replaying
A production runbook to separate ingestion pressure, throttling, hot partitions, consumer failures and checkpoint drift before adding capacity or replaying events.
Read articleAzure UDR: diagnose an NVA black hole before changing routes
A production runbook to separate effective routes, next hop, NVA health, IP forwarding, policy and return path before fixing a UDR or bypassing inspection.
Read articleAgentOps: stop a multi-agent handoff loop before actions multiply
A production runbook for detecting an agent delegation loop, containing side effects, rebuilding traces, and deciding controlled recovery or a single-agent rollback.
Read articleTerraform on Azure: diagnose a partial apply before rerunning production
A production runbook for reconstructing an interrupted Terraform apply on Azure, comparing configuration, state and live resources, then choosing rerun, targeted import, rollback or state repair.
Read articleAzure Arc: diagnose an extension failure after a proxy change
A production runbook for separating Arc connectivity, effective proxy settings, extension service failures and handler errors before reinstalling the agent or widening outbound access.
Read articleAzure Chaos Studio: bound a resilience test before disrupting production
A production runbook for controlling blast radius, execution identity, evidence, abort criteria and recovery for an Azure Chaos Studio scenario.
Read articleAzure Site Recovery: test a recovery plan without touching production
A production runbook for running an Azure Site Recovery test failover in an isolated network, validating dependencies, measuring application recovery and cleaning up unambiguously.
Read articleAgentOps: shadow a prompt or model change before production cutover
A production runbook for comparing a candidate agent with the active runtime on the same requests without duplicating actions, then deciding promotion, canary or rollback.
Read articleAzure DevOps: diagnose a Key Vault secret after rotation before rerunning production
A production runbook for qualifying an Azure Key Vault secret consumed by Azure Pipelines through a variable group, isolating version, mapping, identity, network and precedence, then validating or rolling back without exposing the value.
Read articleAzure Firewall: diagnose a shadowed rule before opening traffic
A production runbook for proving which Azure Firewall rule handles a flow, separating routing from policy order, and applying a targeted fix with validation and rollback.
Read articleAzure Functions: diagnose a poison queue before replaying messages
A production runbook for qualifying poisoned Queue trigger messages, separating deterministic and transient failures, proving idempotency, then replaying or rolling back without duplicating business side effects.
Read articleOpenTelemetry Collector: diagnose telemetry drops before adding memory
A production runbook for locating telemetry loss across receivers, processors, queues and exporters, then validating capacity changes or rolling back safely.
Read articleAgentOps: contain an AI agent consumption runaway before shutting down production
A production runbook for attributing token and tool-call growth, isolating amplification, enforcing an execution budget, and validating or rolling back an AI agent release.
Read articleGitHub Actions: prevent overlapping production deployments
A production runbook for diagnosing concurrent GitHub Actions deployments, serializing writes, validating the active version, and resuming or rolling back without adding another race.
Read articleAzure Monitor: roll out a DCR transformation without losing telemetry
A production runbook for canarying a KQL transformation in an Azure Monitor Data Collection Rule, comparing volume and schema, detecting rejected records, then validating or rolling back without an observability gap.
Read articleTerraform: upgrade a provider without uncontrolled drift
A production runbook for qualifying a Terraform provider upgrade with a lockfile, baseline plan, canary, operational evidence and an explicit rollback.
Read articleAgentOps: bound MCP tool timeouts, retries and circuit breakers before production
A production runbook for defining latency budgets, idempotency, retries, circuit breakers, traces and rollback for an MCP tool called by an AI agent.
Read articleAgentOps: validate tool output before a production write
A production runbook for qualifying structured AI agent tool output with schema, sources, diff, idempotence, policy, traces, human validation and rollback before writing to production.
Read articleAzure Deployment Stacks: validate unmanage and deny settings before an update
A production runbook for reviewing managed resources, unmanage behavior, deny settings, excluded identities, validation and rollback before updating an Azure Deployment Stack.
Read articleAzure Container Apps Jobs: diagnose a KEDA scale rule before rerunning workers
A production runbook for qualifying an Azure Container Apps Job that no longer consumes correctly with KEDA scale rule, backlog, managed identity, secrets, logs, idempotency, validation and rollback before rerunning workers.
Read articleAzure DevOps: diagnose an offline self-hosted agent before recreating it
A production runbook for qualifying an Azure DevOps self-hosted agent that no longer picks up jobs by separating runner service, identity, network, disk, cache, pool, logs and rollback.
Read articleAgentOps: validate the Foundry automation handoff before a production action
A production runbook for qualifying the handoff from a Microsoft Foundry agent to Azure Automation, AWX, Azure DevOps or an MCP tool with contract, identity, traces, dry run, human validation and rollback.
Read articleAzure Durable Functions: diagnose an orchestration before replay or purge
A production runbook for qualifying a stuck Azure Durable Functions orchestration with instance history, activity state, storage, idempotency, KQL, validation and rollback before replay, terminate or purge.
Read articleAzure Functions: diagnose a Timer Trigger before replaying a job
A production runbook for qualifying a failed Azure Functions Timer Trigger with execution history, schedule locks, storage, Application Insights, idempotency, validation and rollback before manual replay.
Read articleAzure DevOps: diagnose a Variable Group before rerunning deployment
A production runbook for qualifying Azure DevOps Variable Group drift with variables, secrets, Key Vault, scopes, logs, validation and rollback before rerunning a pipeline.
Read articleAgentOps: scope an internal MCP server before exposing it to an agent
A production runbook for qualifying an internal MCP server with tool inventory, scopes, identities, secrets, audit, dry runs, evaluations, human validation and rollback before agent access.
Read articleAgentOps: diagnose a failed tool call before retrying a production action
A production runbook for qualifying a failed AI agent tool call with trace evidence, idempotence, identity, backend state, approvals, validation and rollback before retrying.
Read articleAgentOps: validate agent memory before production actions
A production runbook for qualifying AI agent memory with sources, traces, aging, permissions, evaluations, guardrails, human validation and rollback before it influences real actions.
Read articleAzure App Service: diagnose a Managed Identity token failure before bringing back a client secret
A production runbook for qualifying an Azure App Service Managed Identity failure with IMDS endpoint, Entra ID, RBAC, Key Vault or target API evidence, logs, validation and rollback before reintroducing a client secret.
Read articleAzure DevOps: diagnose a self-hosted agent before rerunning the pipeline
A production runbook for qualifying an Azure DevOps failure on a self-hosted agent with disk, workspace, cache, local services, identity, logs, controlled cleanup, validation and rollback.
Read articleAzure Monitor: diagnose ingestion latency before changing a KQL alert
A production runbook for qualifying a delayed Azure Monitor alert by separating application timestamps, Log Analytics ingestion, KQL query windows, evaluation frequency, action groups, validation and rollback.
Read articleAzure Logic Apps: diagnose a workflow before resubmitting the run
A production runbook for qualifying a failed Azure Logic Apps execution with trigger, connectors, managed identity, payload, logs, validation and rollback before resubmit.
Read articleMicrosoft Foundry: validate guardrails before exposing an agent to production
A production runbook for qualifying Microsoft Foundry agent guardrails with sources, refusals, tools, identity, traces, canary, human validation and rollback before user exposure.
Read articleAgentOps: diagnose prompt injection in retrieval before production actions
A production runbook for qualifying suspected prompt injection in an AI agent retrieval corpus with sources, traces, evaluation, tools, guardrails, validation and rollback.
Read articleAzure DevOps: validate approvals and checks before bypassing production
A production runbook for qualifying an Azure DevOps deployment blocked by approvals or checks with environment scope, identity, logs, audit evidence, validation and rollback before bypassing the guardrail.
Read articleAzure Policy: diagnose a deny before creating a production exemption
A production runbook for qualifying an Azure Policy deployment deny with assignment, initiative, deny effect, compliance, scoped exemption, validation and rollback.
Read articleAgentOps: validate an approval policy before production actions
A production runbook for qualifying an agent approval policy change with action scope, identity, traces, evaluation cases, guardrails, human validation and rollback.
Read articleAzure Event Grid: diagnose dead-lettered events before replay
A production runbook for qualifying Azure Event Grid delivery failures with subscription filters, endpoint health, dead-letter storage, diagnostics, replay scope, validation and rollback before reprocessing events.
Read articleAzure Automation: diagnose a runbook before rerunning the job
A production runbook for qualifying an Azure Automation failure with managed identity, parameters, modules, Hybrid Worker, webhooks, logs, validation and rollback before rerun.
Read articleAzure Automation: validate a scheduled runbook before it changes production
A production runbook for qualifying a scheduled Azure Automation job with trigger, managed identity, parameters, dry-run, logs, validation and rollback before allowing real action.
Read articleAzure APIM: validate a Named Values rotation before breaking a private API
A production runbook for qualifying an APIM secret rotation with Named Values, Key Vault, managed identity, private backend, logs, application validation and rollback.
Read articleAzure App Configuration: diagnose a feature flag before rollback
A production runbook for qualifying an Azure App Configuration or feature flag regression with labels, identities, refresh, Key Vault references, logs, validation and rollback.
Read articleAzure App Service slots: validate a swap before promoting to production
A production runbook for qualifying an Azure App Service slot swap with configuration drift, warmup, identity, dependencies, logs, validation and rollback before promotion.
Read articleAgentOps: diagnose missing agent traces before restoring a production action
A production runbook for qualifying incomplete AI agent traces with conversation events, sources, tool calls, identities, approvals, evaluations and rollback before restoring an action.
Read articleAWX: validate dynamic inventory before a production job
A production runbook for qualifying an AWX dynamic inventory change with source, host diff, variables, identities, limits, validation and rollback before execution.
Read articleAzure Monitor: diagnose missing logs before changing alerts
A production runbook for qualifying missing Azure Monitor logs with Diagnostic Settings, DCRs, ingestion, KQL, cost controls, validation and rollback before changing alerts.
Read articleAzure RBAC: diagnose authorization drift before widening a role
A production runbook for qualifying Azure RBAC drift with the real identity, scope, PIM, role assignments, deny assignments, logs, validation and rollback before adding permissions.
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A production runbook for exposing Azure DevOps to an AI agent through MCP with project scope, permissions, allowed actions, evidence, logs, human validation and rollback.
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A production runbook for qualifying an Azure Private DNS change with workload-side resolution, VNet links, Private Resolver, TTL, logs, application validation and rollback.
Read articleAWX: rerun a failed job without replaying a partial action
A production runbook for qualifying a failed AWX job with Ansible events, changed tasks, affected hosts, variables, limited rerun, validation and rollback.
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A short sequence to collect status, variables, affected host and error events before rerunning an AWX job.
Read articleAzure Private DNS Resolver: diagnose split-brain DNS before changing zones
A production runbook for qualifying Azure hybrid DNS incidents with Private DNS Resolver, forwarding rulesets, private zones, caches, evidence, validation and rollback.
Read articleKQL snippet: find risky tool actions from an AI agent
A short query to isolate write-capable tool calls, their execution identity and correlation before disabling an AI agent.
Read articleAzure UDR and NAT Gateway: diagnose egress before opening the firewall
A production runbook for qualifying Azure egress failures with UDR, NAT Gateway, NSG, firewall, DNS, KQL, validation and rollback before adding an overbroad rule.
Read articleAzure WAF: prepare an evidence pack before a policy PR
A production runbook for documenting an Azure WAF change with KQL evidence, policy diff, application probes, security validation, merge decision and rollback.
Read articleAgentOps: diagnose an AI agent action before rollback
A production runbook for qualifying an AI agent action with traces, sources, tools, identity, KQL, human validation and rollback without disabling the whole assistant.
Read articleAzure deployment from a private runner: diagnose the pipeline before rerun
A production runbook for qualifying an Azure deployment failure from a private runner by separating identity, DNS, routing, NSG, NAT, dependency access, logs and rollback.
Read articleAzure Monitor and KQL: decide a deployment rollback without silencing alerts
A production runbook for deciding an Azure rollback after deployment with Azure Monitor, KQL, impact correlation, regression evidence, validation and controlled recovery.
Read articleAzure Policy remediation: fix drift without breaking production
A production runbook for running Azure Policy remediation with impact preview, managed identity checks, controlled batches, exemptions, logs and rollback.
Read articleMicrosoft Foundry: evaluate an agent before giving it a production action
A runbook for validating an AI agent before real action by separating sources, tools, identity, evaluation cases, human approvals, logs and rollback.
Read articleAgentOps: expose MCP tools without losing control of production actions
A production runbook for exposing MCP tools to an AI agent while keeping action scope, approvals, identities, logs, evaluation and rollback under control.
Read articleAzure Storage: diagnose a private endpoint without opening the account
An operational runbook for Azure Storage private access failures by separating DNS, Private Endpoint, firewall, identity, logs and rollback evidence.
Read articleAzure App Service: diagnose a private endpoint before redeploying
Build an operational runbook for App Service private access failures by separating DNS, Private Endpoint, access restrictions, Application Gateway, application logs and rollback evidence.
Read articleAzure Functions: diagnose a private HTTP endpoint before changing code
Build an operational runbook for private Azure Functions failures by separating DNS, Private Endpoint, access restrictions, private storage, Application Insights logs and rollback evidence.
Read articleAzure AKS: diagnose private ingress before changing deployments
Build an operational runbook for AKS private ingress failures by separating DNS, Application Gateway, ingress controller, Kubernetes service endpoints, pod readiness and rollback evidence.
Read articleAzure Container Apps: diagnose private ingress before changing revisions
Build an operational runbook for Azure Container Apps private ingress failures by separating DNS, ingress mode, revision routing, application logs and rollback evidence.
Read articleAzure managed identity: diagnose private access before changing permissions
Build a runbook for Key Vault, Storage or private API access failures with managed identity, RBAC, private DNS, logs and real execution evidence.
Read articleAzure: make private paths verifiable with synthetic probes
Build useful synthetic probes for DNS, TLS, Application Gateway, WAF and Private Endpoint so private Azure paths fail with evidence before production incidents.
Read articleAzure snippet: audit WAF custom rule priorities
A short command to list custom rules in an Azure WAF policy with priority, action and type before an urgent change.
Read articleService identity and secret rotation: a production runbook, not an isolated task
Build operable rotation for secrets, certificates, and application identities with dependency inventory, evidence, change windows, monitoring, and rollback.
Read articleAzure Private Endpoint: detect Terraform, DNS, and network drift before incident
Build an operational drift reading across Terraform, Private Endpoint, private DNS, CI runners, and validation evidence before a private Azure path breaks in production.
Read articleAWX: design job templates that do not become a dangerous remote console
Turn AWX into a controlled operations tool with bounded job templates, limited variables, separated credentials, explicit inventories and post-action validation.
Read articleLightweight AWX production without overbuilding
A concrete use case for running AWX on a small Linux estate with Git inventories, separated credentials, controlled job templates, backups, and post-run checks.
Read articleInstalling AWX is easy. Operating it cleanly is not.
A production-oriented note on AWX with the operator, including namespace design, persistence, exposure, execution environments, validation, backups, and the failure modes that appear after the first successful login.
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