
cloud · 27 November 2025
Terragrunt Tips and Tricks From The Field
Discover three distinct Terragrunt file patterns for managing your Terraform at scale.
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I'm Jesse Loudon. I help leaders shape, sell and deliver secure Azure, DevOps and AI transformation programs, bringing architecture, commercial thinking and people leadership into the same conversation.

The value I bring
My strongest work happens before and beyond implementation: listening for the real problem, making complexity legible to decision-makers, creating a credible path forward, and helping teams feel ownership of the change.
That means I can move comfortably between a C-suite conversation, an architecture review, a proposal workshop and a delivery team that needs practical enablement.
What I write about
Governance patterns that scale with your organisation.
Landing zones, networking, migration, and modernisation.
Pragmatic automation and emerging engineering practices.
From the notebook

cloud · 27 November 2025
Discover three distinct Terragrunt file patterns for managing your Terraform at scale.
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cloud · 24 November 2025
Discover lessons learned adopting Azure Virtual WAN from a traditional hub and spoke architecture
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cloud · 20 November 2025
Learn how to deploy Palo Alto Cloud Next-Generation Firewall with Strata Cloud Manager integration using Terraform.
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cloud · 27 April 2025
How you can manage Azure Databricks (ADB) Workspace IP access lists via CICD and DevOps processes
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cloud · 2 February 2022
I recently had the pleasure of presenting a livestream session via Microsoft Reactor Sydney on a subject close to my heart.
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cloud · 21 January 2022
This is the Awesome Azure Policy origin story
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cloud · 25 November 2021
Appearing as a guest on the Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast to talk Azure Policy as Code with hosts Tobias Zimmergren and Jussi Roine
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cloud · 25 July 2021
Fixing a design flaw with the existenceCondition for builtin policies
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cloud · 28 April 2021
How combining Terraform with CSVs and ForEach we can deploy at scale from large datasets
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cloud · 18 April 2021
Recently I've been diving into Microsoft's new DSL Bicep and as I'm passionate about Azure Policy I thought why not combine both aspects into a session?
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cloud · 21 March 2021
Discover patterns for leveraging DeployIfNotExists (DINE) policies to automate your Azure Monitoring Governance with Azure Monitor Metric Alerts
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exams · 28 January 2021
Discover the 'Just Enough Study' concept and learn how to hunt key phrases using Azure Text Analytics
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personal · 5 January 2021
After such a 2020 memorable year (for both good & bad reasons) I've been itching to publish my retrospective
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cloud · 10 November 2020
Discover the Ansible on Azure development ecosystem, key advantages/disadvantages, and how to get started
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cloud · 10 November 2020
Discover how Terraform IaC can automate your Ansible control host deployment into Azure
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cloud · 10 November 2020
Discover Ansible role development patterns on Azure using the Molecule-Azure driver
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m365 · 22 October 2020
How to manage Teams desktop client settings automatically with PowerShell
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cloud · 4 August 2020
Combine GitHub Actions and Terraform to achieve an automated Infrastructure as Code workflow
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cloud · 30 June 2020
Look under the hood of an example repository I created to deploy a set of custom Azure policies, initiatives, and assignments
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cloud · 15 June 2020
How to migrate existing Azure tag values to new tag key/value pairs programmatically using PowerShell
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cloud · 9 June 2020
Discover patterns for usage of Azure Policy as Code with Terraform and examine deployment methodologies, module structures, Azure policy best-practices, and Terraform best-practices
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cloud · 20 May 2020
How to programmatically find and remove 'Unknown' type Azure RBAC role assignments with PowerShell
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cloud · 18 May 2020
Introduction to the audit vs deny debate, native tooling, and governance at scale
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cloud · 18 May 2020
Intro to the Azure Policy extension for VSCode and authoring custom policy definitions by finding property aliases
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cloud · 4 March 2020
Putting Azure Building Blocks to the test with a simple Hub & Spoke VNET deployment
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events · 28 February 2020
The underlying theme of OpenHack is that there's no clear path forward through the challenges and the 'unknown' factor is ever present
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blogging · 17 February 2020
Introduction to getting setup with your own blog site using Jekyll GitHub VSCode
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cloud · 10 February 2020
All you need to know about Azure Backup Explorer released in preview Feb 2020
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cloud · 7 February 2020
Intro to Proximity Placement Groups demonstrating how to deploy a test environment
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exams · 7 February 2020
With Microsoft announcing sweeping changes to a few Azure exams later in March 2020 the time is ripe to blog about an exam I’ve had my eye on for a while: Azure DevOps Solutions (AZ-400).
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identity · 6 February 2020
The resolution to this problem for me was to ensure that an SPNameQualifier value was sent as a claim property from AD FS to IdentityNow
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security · 6 February 2020
The heart and soul of all this is a single PowerShell script
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Through talks, writing, open source and mentoring, I translate emerging technology into useful decisions and repeatable practice.