Architecture Center Diagrams, request flows, components, and operational guidance.
Architecture Center

Reference architectures for secure, automated cloud platforms.

Each architecture explains the problem, solution, request flow, core components, benefits, best practices, and related knowledge so teams can move from diagram to implementation.

UsersDNS and edge controls
IngressGateway and firewall
PlatformPrivate workloads
OpsLogs and metrics
Featured Architecture

Azure landing zone with hub and spoke networking.

Overview

A production-ready Azure foundation separates shared connectivity, security inspection, identity, management, and workload subscriptions while keeping deployment automated through Terraform.

Problem

Teams often start with isolated subscriptions, inconsistent networking, unclear ownership, and manual deployment practices that create drift and slow delivery.

Solution

Establish a governed landing zone with reusable network patterns, private connectivity, policy guardrails, centralized observability, and pipeline-driven environment creation.

InternetDNS, CDN, WAF
HubFirewall, VPN, shared services
SpokesApp, data, platform networks
ControlPolicy, logs, backup
Request Flow

From user request to observable platform event.

1

Resolve

Traffic resolves through managed DNS and optional CDN or front-door routing.

2

Inspect

Ingress is filtered by WAF, firewall rules, identity controls, and policy boundaries.

3

Route

Requests travel through hub services to private spokes, gateways, or service endpoints.

4

Observe

Logs, metrics, alerts, traces, and runbooks connect behavior back to operations.

Suggested Architectures

Reusable patterns for common cloud platform needs.

Azure Landing Zone

Subscriptions, policy, identity, networking, and operations baseline.

Application Gateway

WAF-enabled ingress for web workloads with private backends.

Hub and Spoke

Centralized connectivity, inspection, DNS, and workload isolation.

AKS Platform

Cluster topology, ingress, secrets, observability, and deployment flows.

Load Balancer

Internal and external traffic distribution with health checks.

Storage

Private endpoints, lifecycle policy, backup, and data governance.

Networking

IP planning, routing, DNS, firewalling, and hybrid paths.

Hybrid Cloud

VPN, ExpressRoute, identity, monitoring, and migration patterns.

Best Practices

Architecture content should guide implementation.

Keep diagrams close to code

Version architecture diagrams and component docs beside Terraform modules and platform repositories.

Record tradeoffs

Use decision records to explain why a topology, service, or control was selected.

Connect to operations

Every architecture should link to dashboards, alert rules, runbooks, and recovery steps.