Azure Landing Zone and AKS Deployment for Shared Platform Services
Designed and deployed an Azure platform foundation for teams that needed consistent networking, identity, and Kubernetes-based application delivery.
Technical Implementation
- Built the landing zone with management groups, separate subscriptions, hub-and-spoke virtual networks, NSGs, route tables, and Azure Policy assignments so network and governance controls were consistent before workloads landed.
- Implemented environment provisioning through Terraform and Azure DevOps pipelines, using reusable modules for networking, identity, and cluster dependencies and validating changes with terraform validate, tflint, and staged plan review.
- Deployed AKS with managed identities, Azure CNI, ingress, cert-manager, and the Key Vault CSI driver so cluster access, secret delivery, and certificate handling were part of the base platform design.
- Integrated Azure Monitor, Container Insights, and log routing into the cluster baseline, then validated onboarding with pilot services to confirm image pull paths, secret mounts, ingress behavior, and workload telemetry before wider use.
Client Delivery & Handover
The implementation was done with the client infrastructure and engineering teams through design sessions, paired rollout work, and validation checkpoints against real workload requirements. Handover included landing-zone documentation, subscription and network diagrams, AKS support runbooks, environment build guidance, and training sessions for both platform operators and engineering leads. The enablement work focused on ensuring the client team could both operate the platform and onboard additional services without losing consistency.
Outcome
The client moved to a more coherent Azure architecture with cleaner deployment patterns, better environment consistency, and a platform foundation that application teams could consume more predictably.
Project Snapshot
Category
Cloud Architecture
Sector
Azure Architecture
Duration
18 weeks
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