Joel Aggeler · Azure & Network Engineer · AZ-104
I design Azure platforms — management groups, networking, identity, governance, and infrastructure as code — and publish the architecture, decisions, and trade-offs behind each one. Grounded in hands-on engineering and the Cloud Adoption Framework. An engineering notebook, documented as I learn.
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Structured, long-form documentation for project builds, platform architecture, deployment patterns, operational baselines, and implementation decisions.
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Technical posts, lessons learned, opinions, and focused explanations from ongoing engineering work.
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Azure architecture, observability, automation, and the systems behind the documentation.
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Background, certifications, and the engineering focus behind the documentation and code.
More about JoelFrom the blog
A practical look at the Azure Policy controls I would enable early in a cloud platform: tagging, allowed regions, diagnostics, public exposure, security defaults, and governance without slowing teams down.
Jun 13, 2026
Azure / Jun 5, 2026
A concise explanation of why management groups and subscription structure matter in Azure, how they shape governance, and how I would approach them when building a cloud platform foundation.
Azure / May 26, 2026
A practical look at what makes an Azure environment a real cloud platform: identity, networking, governance, security, operations, and the decisions that matter before deploying workloads.
Documentation library
Docs capture the architecture, setup sequence, operational details, and decisions that do not fit cleanly into a blog post.
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Systems I build, operate, and use as the foundation for posts and documentation.
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About the engineer
I use Infraze to document what I build at work and in my homelab, including the decisions, trade-offs, failures, and lessons behind each system.