Backing Up Azure Infrastructure with Python and Aztfexport

In an ideal DevOps world, every cloud resource is spawned from Terraform or Bicep. In the real world, we deal with “ClickOps.” An engineer manually tweaks a Network Security Group (NSG) to fix a production outage, or a legacy resource group exists with no code definition at all. When a disaster strikes — such as the accidental deletion of a resource group — you can’t just “re-run the pipeline” if the pipeline doesn’t match reality.