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Azure Key Vault Access Troubleshooting Without Guesswork

May 21, 2026

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7 min read

Azure Key Vault Access Troubleshooting Without Guesswork

A Practical IT scorecard for validating RBAC, private endpoints, DNS, and firewall controls before the incident gets weird.

Matthew Koozer
Matthew Koozer

Automation

+9

Secrets Sprawl Cleanup Checklist & Worksheet

May 13, 2026

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2 min read

Secrets Sprawl Cleanup Checklist & Worksheet

A practical asset pack for finding, owning, rotating, and retiring unmanaged cloud credentials.

Matthew Koozer
Matthew Koozer

Automation

+22

Azure Policy Exemptions at Scale

Apr 28, 2026

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9 min read

Azure Policy Exemptions at Scale

Naming, expiration, and audit trail patterns for operators who need exceptions without creating permanent blind spots

Matthew Koozer
Matthew Koozer

Runbooks

+19

Private Endpoint DNS Checklist (What to Verify, in Order)

Feb 28, 2026

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10 min read

Private Endpoint DNS Checklist (What to Verify, in Order)

Troubleshooting guide for when Private Endpoints "work" in Azure, but nothing can reach them.

Matthew Koozer
Matthew Koozer

Microsoft Azure

+11

Zero-trust networking in Azure: the operator’s version (not the slide deck)

Feb 26, 2026

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10 min read

Zero-trust networking in Azure: the operator’s version (not the slide deck)

A practical lens for platform engineers, SREs, and cloud operators who own the pager and the audit trail.

Matthew Koozer
Matthew Koozer

Runbooks

+11

Private endpoints fail for one reason: DNS ownership is unclear

Feb 26, 2026

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7 min read

Private endpoints fail for one reason: DNS ownership is unclear

A slightly spicy operator take on why “networking issues” keep showing up in your postmortems.

Matthew Koozer
Matthew Koozer

Automation

+15

From ClickOps to GitOps: How I Migrated 250+ Azure Policies to Traceable CI/CD in a Day

Feb 20, 2026

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7 min read

From ClickOps to GitOps: How I Migrated 250+ Azure Policies to Traceable CI/CD in a Day

Matthew Koozer
Matthew Koozer

Practical IT

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