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Azure DevOps Pipelines — the parts they don't document

The official docs cover the happy path. Here's what I learned from the edge cases: conditional stages, variable group scoping, and service connection gotchas.

The CI/CD pipeline nobody maintains — why pipeline-as-code needs ownership

Pipeline YAML is code. It has bugs, tech debt, and dependencies. But nobody owns it, so it rots in place until something breaks at 2 AM.

Zero secrets in pipelines — and why most teams still get this wrong

Stored credentials in CI/CD pipelines are a liability. How Azure Workload Identity federation eliminates the most common secret management failure.

Rico Twesten-Weber

Principal DevOps Engineer. I build platforms that run themselves, and write about DevOps and AI.

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