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If you still manage Azure Policy in the portal, you are running production on hope

Feb 5, 2026

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8 min read

If you still manage Azure Policy in the portal, you are running production on hope

A hot-take workflow for shipping Azure Policy through Azure DevOps without surprise outages, exception chaos, or portal drift.

Matthew Koozer
Matthew Koozer

Microsoft Azure

+5

Azure Policy at scale: DeployIfNotExists patterns that don’t melt ops

Feb 4, 2026

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7 min read

Azure Policy at scale: DeployIfNotExists patterns that don’t melt ops

A PracticalIT how-to for building DeployIfNotExists policies that stay predictable in production.

Matthew Koozer
Matthew Koozer

Microsoft Azure

+8

Before and after: what changes when you move policy to PRs

Feb 3, 2026

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6 min read

Before and after: what changes when you move policy to PRs

A mini case post for platform teams who are tired of click-ops governance

Matthew Koozer
Matthew Koozer

Cost Optimization

+4

How to sanity-check cloud cost reports before you escalate anything

Feb 2, 2026

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4 min read

How to sanity-check cloud cost reports before you escalate anything

A practical workflow for Azure-heavy teams, but useful for any cloud cost report: verify coverage, verify the data, then isolate the driver.

Matthew Koozer
Matthew Koozer

Microsoft Azure

+5

Before and after: what changed when we moved policy to PRs

Feb 2, 2026

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6 min read

Before and after: what changed when we moved policy to PRs

A mini case post for platform teams who are tired of click-ops governance

Matthew Koozer
Matthew Koozer

Cost Optimization

+5

Cost Drift: A System Bug, Not a Billing Surprise

Dec 23, 2025

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5 min read

Cost Drift: A System Bug, Not a Billing Surprise

Matthew Koozer
Matthew Koozer

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