Terraform to Bicep Migration on Azure: A Field Guide
Moving Azure infrastructure from Terraform to Bicep is less about converting HCL files and more about replacing a state-file workflow with a deployment-based one. This field guide covers when migration pays off, inventorying tfstate, incremental coexistence patterns, the decompile tooling that exists, deployment stacks as the lifecycle answer, and the what-if validation and rollback discipline that keeps the cutover safe.
Azure Assistants API retired: migrating to Foundry Agents
The Azure OpenAI Assistants API reached its retirement date on 26 August 2026, and the classic Foundry Agent Service it underpins retires 31 March 2027. A step-by-step migration guide to the new Foundry Agent Service on the Responses API: threads become conversations, runs become responses, assistants become versioned agents, and Microsoft's migration tool rewrites code but not stored state.
Cognitive Search to Azure AI Search: Manufacturing Migration
Microsoft renamed Azure Cognitive Search to Azure AI Search in late 2023 and added substantial vector, semantic, and agentic-retrieval capabilities. Manufacturing teams running legacy Cognitive Search deployments need a structured migration plan — not a like-for-like upgrade, but a targeted modernisation of the features that matter most.