Before You Deploy
Before You Deploy
Why many landing zones fail before the first subscription is deployed. Preventable failure modes, with NZ field notes.
Start here — Series overviewIn this series
| Part | Title | Read |
|---|---|---|
| Before You Deploy · Overview | The Landing Zone That Failed Before It Began Seven field notes on preventable failure modes that show up before the first subscription is deployed, with NZ programme stories. | 3 min |
| Before You Deploy · 1 | Landing Zones Without Business Context Why lift-and-shifting a real workload onto a vanilla ALZ reference is where the missing requirements finally come due. | 16 min |
| Before You Deploy · 2 | Governance as a Blocker Can a two person NZ team get a fully compliant production environment in under a week? If not, you have a tollbooth, not governance. | 10 min |
| Before You Deploy · 3 | The Platform Team That Built Alone A landing zone built alone is a hypothesis. A pilot partnership is the experiment, especially when people capacity is scarce. | 8 min |
| Before You Deploy · 4 | Undefined Subscription Strategy Could finance produce an accurate cost breakdown today? Could an NZ auditor list which subscriptions process personal information? | 8 min |
| Before You Deploy · 5 | Datacentre Thinking in a Cloud Landing Zone Network diagrams inherit easily. Decisions do not. Design Azure networking for NZ North, latency, and real workloads on purpose. | 8 min |
| Before You Deploy · 6 | IaC Without Platform Engineering Discipline Landing zones change forever. Without pipelines and release discipline, code stops matching reality, and a continuity path for small NZ teams. | 8 min |
| Before You Deploy · 7 | Big Bang Over Incremental Delivery How landing zones die: not in a failed deployment, but in a cancelled programme. An incremental roadmap sized for NZ teams. | 9 min |
This series in numbers
Counts for this arc only — pilots and numbered parts included.
8
Posts in Before You Deploy, including the overview.
7
Numbered field notes after the overview.
70
Estimated reading time across the full arc (minutes).