Managed-Identity

Architecture diagrams are useful, but they eventually have to become files that run together. In this tutorial I build one complete vertical slice of a personal operations assistant, first on a Windows workstation with no Azure dependency, then on Azure Container Apps with Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Search. The companion implementation is in labs/personal-assistant in my agentic-infra-handbook repository. The commands and snippets below match that lab. The lab’s README also has its own step-by-step Azure deployment walkthrough, covering App Registration, the AZD environment, callback registration, validation, and cleanup as a standalone reference. ...

Eighth post in the series. In the previous one, we learned that a green dashboard doesn’t guarantee a healthy model. Now: the threats your WAF won’t catch. tl;dr Most AI security failures happen at identity, data access, and prompt boundaries, not at the firewall. Use managed identity, RBAC, Key Vault, private connectivity, and content filtering together. The chatbot that knew too much Your organization deploys an internal chatbot with Azure OpenAI, connected to a knowledge base of policies, documentation, and FAQs. The rollout goes smoothly, adoption takes off, and leadership is already planning a customer-facing version. ...