Lead Cloud Solution Architect · Microsoft

Martin Opedal

I help organisations land securely on Azure: Landing Zones, AKS, Terraform, and the governance layer that holds it all together.

About

I'm a Lead Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft, focused on Azure Landing Zones, AKS Automatic, Terraform, IaC security, and sovereign cloud deployments. Before this I ran datacenters for nearly a decade - experience that shaped how I think about reliability and security from the hardware layer up.

Most of what I ship is built with GitHub Copilot. I steer the architecture and review the output; the agent writes most of the code. I believe AI should be held to the same review standards as human contributors.

On the side I co-founded two craft breweries. Turns out fermentation and infrastructure have more in common than you'd think: both need the right environment, the right controls, and patience.

What I Work On

Azure Landing Zones

End-to-end ALZ Corp deployments with Terraform and Bicep. 135+ automated checklist validations via Azure Resource Graph. Security and compliance built in from day one, not bolted on.

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AKS & Kubernetes

AKS Automatic clusters with ALZ Corp networking. BYO VNet, Application Gateway for Containers, NGINX, Istio with multiple ingress and egress patterns documented with full Terraform parity.

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IaC Security

Terraform modules built to run inside ALZ Corp landing zones: no public IPs, central firewall egress, managed identity everywhere. PSRule and azqr integrated into CI pipelines.

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GitHub Runners & CI/CD

GitHub-hosted and self-hosted runners with Azure VNet integration, Container Apps, and ALZ Corp firewall egress. GHE.com EU data residency patterns.

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Open Source

Terraform modules, ARG queries, and tooling that came out of real customer engagements.

Speaking

NIC speaker (94% approval, Level 300, live-streamed) on Terraform, GitHub Copilot, and IaC security. Nordic Infrastructure Conference →

Get in Touch

Open to conversations about Azure architecture, IaC patterns, and AI-assisted development.