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.
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← All articles19 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.
11 April 2026
From sandbox success to a full CI/CD pipeline in a day: Terraform for AKS, Spot nodepools, a clean LLM-adapter pattern, Traefik on ARM64, ConfigMap-driven prompts, and a cross-subscription, bootstrap-plus-main-stage pipeline — all on €45 of remaining credits.
10 April 2026
The first working milestone: a self-hosted sentiment-analysis service running in the Whizlabs AKS sandbox — Terraform + PowerShell automation, a multi-container Ollama/LLM-adapter/Flask architecture, and ConfigMap-driven prompts with proper health probes.
5 April 2026
Kicking off a self-hosted LLM sentiment-analysis platform on AKS: a Flask API, an LLM adapter layer, Ollama (phi3:mini) in-cluster, Terraform for IaC, and Traefik ingress via Helm — the plan before any of it exists yet.