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+***Warning: Important information for customers using azure/caf-terraform-landingzones*** 
 
-[![Gitter](https://badges.gitter.im/aztfmod/community.svg)](https://gitter.im/aztfmod/community?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=badge&utm_campaign=pr-badge)
+This solution, offered by the Open-Source community, will no longer receive contributions from Microsoft. 
 
-# Azure Terraform SRE
+Customers are encouraged to transition to Microsoft Azure Verified Modules (https://aka.ms/avm) for continued support and updates from Microsoft. 
 
+Please note, this repository is scheduled for decommissioning and will be removed on July 1, 2025. 
 
-Azure Terraform SRE (formely CAF Terraform) ambitions:
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-* Equip the Site Reliability Engineering teams for Terraform on Azure.
-* Democratize an IaC: Infrastructure-as-Configuration.
-* Commoditize state management and enterprise-wide composition.
-* Standardize deployments leveraging official Azure landing zones components.
-* Propose a prescriptive guidance on how to enable DevOps for infrastructure as code on Microsoft Azure.
-* Foster a community of Azure *Terraformers* using a common set of practices and sharing best practices.
-
-
-You can review the different components parts of the Azure Terraform SRE and look at the quick intro video below:
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-[![caf_elements](./_pictures/caf_elements.png)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlQ17u4NNts "CAF Introduction")
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-## :rocket: Getting started
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-When starting an enterprise deployment, we recommend you start creating a configuration repository where you craft the configuration files for your environments.
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-The best way to start is to clone the [platform starter repository](https://github.com/Azure/caf-terraform-landingzones-platform-starter) and getting started with the configuration files.
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-If you are reading this, you are probably interested also in reading the doc as below:
-:books: Read our [centralized documentation page](https://aka.ms/caf/terraform)
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-## Community
-
-Feel free to open an issue for feature or bug, or to submit a PR.
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-In case you have any question, you can reach out to tf-landingzones at microsoft dot com.
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-You can also reach us on [Gitter](https://gitter.im/aztfmod/community?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=badge&utm_campaign=pr-badge)
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-## Contributing
-
-This project welcomes contributions and suggestions.  Most contributions require you to agree to a
-Contributor License Agreement (CLA) declaring that you have the right to, and actually do, grant us
-the rights to use your contribution. For details, visit https://cla.opensource.microsoft.com.
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-When you submit a pull request, a CLA bot will automatically determine whether you need to provide
-a CLA and decorate the PR appropriately (e.g., status check, comment). Simply follow the instructions
-provided by the bot. You will only need to do this once across all repos using our CLA.
-
-## Code of conduct
-
-This project has adopted the [Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct](https://opensource.microsoft.com/codeofconduct/).
-For more information see the [Code of Conduct FAQ](https://opensource.microsoft.com/codeofconduct/faq/) or
-contact [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) with any additional questions or comments.
+Customers interested in maintaining their use of this community solution should refer to (https://github.com/aztfmod/caf-terraform-landingzones/issues/1)