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    • Azure Firewall Rules as Code: Shifting Left

      Azure Firewall Rules as Code: Shifting Left

      It’s 9:30 on a Monday morning at an NHS trust. Your team has just merged a pull request updating firewall rules for the new Databricks workspace. Ten minutes later, the pipeline fails — not because Azure Firewall itself is broken, but because someone accidentally typed 10.0.0.0/35 instead of /24 in the CSV file. Now the…

    • Azure Firewall Rules as Code: CI/CD Integration

      Azure Firewall Rules as Code: CI/CD Integration

      Manual firewall updates often happen at 2 a.m. during an outage. Pipelines mean those changes are rehearsed, automated, and safe.This is the second post in a three-part series on Azure Firewall rules as code. Last time, I showed how turning firewall rules into code gave me a modular, reusable foundation that fit perfectly with the…

    • Azure Firewall Rules as Code: Modular Lab Deployment Guide

      Azure Firewall Rules as Code: Modular Lab Deployment Guide

      Firewall rules should protect your network, not your free time. Yet too often, updating them is a tedious, error-prone slog. In this series, I’ll show how turning firewall rules into code can flip that script. I’d recently been working with a customer on a project to migrate to a new hub network, and one of…