Welcome to GalloCloud

Azure Hybrid & Enterprise Network Field Notes

GalloCloud is a technical blog focused on Azure networking, hybrid architecture, and enterprise cloud migrations.

The goal of this site is to document real-world lessons, design patterns, and practical solutions from working with complex cloud environments.

New articles and architecture guides will be published soon.

Topics Covered

• Azure Networking

  • Hub-Spoke architectures
  • Azure Firewall design
  • Front Door & Application Gateway patterns
  • WAF tuning and security

• Hybrid Infrastructure

  • Azure Stack HCI
  • On-premises to Azure connectivity
  • VPN and ExpressRoute design
  • Hybrid identity patterns

• Cloud Migrations

  • Enterprise migration planning
  • Tenant-to-tenant Azure moves
  • Downtime planning and risk mitigation
  • Azure Migrate and ASR lessons learned

Upcoming Articles

The first field notes will include topics such as:

• Designing Azure Firewall placement with Front Door and App Gateway
• Creating S2S VPN backup for ExpressRoute
• Lessons from large Azure tenant migrations
• WAF rate limiting in production environments
• Hybrid network design using hub-spoke architecture

About GalloCloud

GalloCloud is maintained by Thomas Hansen, a cloud architect specializing in:

• Azure networking
• Hybrid infrastructure
• Enterprise cloud migrations

The purpose of this blog is to share practical insights, architecture patterns, and automation techniques for building secure and scalable cloud environments.

Work in Progress

This site is currently being developed.
More technical articles and scripts will be published soon.

Stay tuned.