An All-Too-Familiar Accident
Picture this: You’re at your desk on a Friday afternoon, trying to deploy a feature that’s long overdue in your development environment. Maybe your team has been scrambling to finalize sprint tasks, or you’re simply in a hurry to wrap things up before the weekend.
You open your terminal, type some commands, and — because it’s the end of a stressful day — you accidentally end up using wrong environment details (IP address/ Subscription ID / Resource Group / Hostname) . Instead of supplying the values of development environment, you have supplied values of the production environment’s.
Before you realize what you’ve done, the operation finishes. The scariest part? You had full and permanent administrative rights to the production environment — no extra barriers, no second checks. You see a cryptic error message, or maybe you realize data is missing. Your heart sinks. A small, simple slip has just caused a massive outage for your customers.
Sound like a nightmare? It’s an unfortunately common scenario for organizations that rely on shared admin accounts or have no guardrails in place. The real question is: why was it so easy to wreak havoc on your production environment in the first place?
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