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I've worked with multiple Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools a lot for the last couple of years and if I were to choose one thing to be considered lacking, it would be a valid, bulletproof and proven testing framework or testing pattern.

Application Insights bugs tend to fall into one of two categories.

This week in Topaz: Azure App Configuration launches as a new first-class service with store and replica lifecycle management, soft-delete, and purge support.

This week in Topaz: Azure Log Analytics launches as a new first-class service with workspace management, data ingestion, and soft-delete support.

When I started working on Topaz 15 months ago (I pushed the first commit in the middle of April 2025), I had no idea how the landscape of software engineering would change by the time I wrote this.

This week in Topaz: Azure App Configuration is fully implemented with data plane key-value management, access key operations, and Azure CLI support.

There is a certain category of test that feels good to write but does not actually test what you think it does.

For a while, local Azure development in my projects looked like this: Azurite for Blob and Queue Storage, the Microsoft Service Bus Emulator for messaging, the Cosmos DB Emulator for document storage, and nothing at all for Key Vault, Container Registry,…

This week in Topaz: Azure Cosmos DB gains full SQL query execution with schema-aware document CRUD, partition range planning, and QueryEngine refactoring.

Every team that tests against real Azure services in CI eventually hits the same four problems.

One of the fundamental rules of Topaz is that it must not require sudo or admin rights.

This week in Topaz: Azure Cosmos DB arrives as a full resource-management service with Accounts, SQL Databases, and Containers.

I had a simple target in mind: open a project, run docker compose up, and have a working local Azure environment — Key Vault, Blob Storage, ARM API.

This week in Topaz: Azure SQL arrives as a full first-class service with Servers and Databases.

I wanted to see whether Topaz could run a real PeekLock consumer, not just accept AMQP frames and pass a basic SDK smoke test.

This week in Topaz: Azure App Service lands as a first-class service with Plans and Sites.

I wanted GitHub Copilot to do more than generate a bash script that calls az group create.

This week in Topaz: Table Storage learns OData, Virtual Networks reach full CRUD, Network Security Groups arrive, Key Vault gets auto-purge, and the repo ships an official Dev Container.

I wanted the "Open in Dev Container" badge for Topaz to do the obvious thing: open the repository in VS Code with the emulator already running, the certificates trusted, and *.topaz.local.dev resolving without any manual setup.

This week in Topaz: Key Vault certificates land, Management Groups reach full CRUD maturity, Storage gets Entra ID auth, and the Portal grows a real dashboard.