The IaC Landscape in 2026

Infrastructure as Code has become table stakes for any serious Azure deployment. The two dominant tools in the Azure space — Bicep and Terraform — each have compelling strengths, and the choice between them significantly shapes your team’s workflow.

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Why Automate Azure Arc Onboarding?

Manually onboarding servers to Azure Arc is straightforward for a handful of machines — but at scale (hundreds or thousands of servers), it quickly becomes unmanageable. In this post, I walk through the approach I use to bulk-onboard servers with PowerShell and …

A Common Misconception

I keep seeing people frame Azure Update Manager as a WSUS replacement. It’s not — at least, not directly. What it actually replaced was Azure Automation Update Management (the v1 solution that used Log Analytics workspaces and the Updates OMS solution). That was …