We Moved a Production System from Azure VMs to...

This wasn’t one of those long, overplanned migrations that drag on for years. It took us about three months from start to finish, and most of that time was spent being careful rather than building something complicated. The system we inherited was running on Azure with multiple VMs, a self-managed MySQL instance, and a load balancer in front. It had all the symptoms of something that had grown without a plan. Everything was configured manually. No infrastructure as code, no containers, no orches