14 June 2026
A full AZ-400 cheat sheet: DevOps terms and definitions, branch strategies, tooling, deployment strategies, and test types.
Tagged “azure-devops”
← All articles24 May 2026
When Whizlabs and Tutorials Dojo hadn't caught up to the April 2026 AZ-400 exam update (hybrid CI/CD, GitOps with Flux v2 + ArgoCD), generating custom scenario questions with AI to fill the gap — including one where the AI itself got a nuanced hybrid setup wrong first.
23 May 2026
80% on the Whizlabs AZ-400 final mock, first attempt, 5 days before the real exam — solid improvement from earlier practice tests after focusing hard on weak areas.
16 May 2026
Building a reusable Azure DevOps YAML pipeline for a small .NET helper library: AI-assisted (Aider + Qwen2.5) unit tests, automated SemVer NuGet packaging to GitHub Packages, restore caching, a dotnet format style gate, and the Cache@2 quirk that needed a manual mkdir to fix.
2 May 2026
Week 3 of an AZ-400 side project: a full Terraform + AKS + Traefik pipeline covering infrastructure, blue/green + canary deployment, and teardown — with real execution times for each stage, down to seconds for a blue/green traffic switch.
26 April 2026
The first working blue-green deployment on AKS for AZ-400 practice: three pipelines split across infrastructure provisioning, deployment, and Traefik IngressRoute-based promotion between two Git-branch environments.
25 April 2026
Adding a detect-language endpoint to the sentiment API, backed by AI-assisted unit tests (Aider + Qwen) that also run on main, a feature-branch flow set up for blue-green then canary, and a Flask route-ordering gotcha (routes must be defined before the blocking app.run() call).
19 April 2026
The sentiment API goes live via a real two-pipeline, cross-subscription Azure DevOps setup: Terraform cluster creation feeding a second deploy pipeline through cross-pipeline artifact passing, arm64/amd64 cost-split nodepools, end-to-end deploy in 2 minutes.