# DevOps — Daily DevOps & .NET > Pragmatic DevOps strategies: shorten feedback loops, ensure safer releases, automate intelligently, and foster shared ownership across teams. Source: https://daily-devops.net/tags/devops/ Generated: 2026-06-11 ## About this topic - [Topic landing page](https://daily-devops.net/tags/devops/): Pragmatic DevOps strategies: shorten feedback loops, ensure safer releases, automate intelligently, and foster shared ownership across teams. - [Back to all topics](https://daily-devops.net/tags/) - [Site index](https://daily-devops.net/llms.txt) ## Articles tagged "DevOps" (25) - [Platform Engineering Without Backstage: Pragmatic IDPs on Azure](https://daily-devops.net/posts/platform-engineering-without-backstage/): Backstage is not the only path to an Internal Developer Platform. Pragmatic IDP patterns on Azure that ship value before the YAML eats your team. - [AI Code Review Is a Sycophant: Why It Always Approves](https://daily-devops.net/posts/ai-code-review-is-a-sycophant/): Copilot and Claude find real bugs, but miss wrong abstractions and bad designs. Understanding that gap matters more than debating the tools. - [.claudeignore Doesn't Exist. Here's What Does.](https://daily-devops.net/posts/claudeignore-dotnet/): .claudeignore is a hallucination. Claude invented it, the internet spread it, and now Claude keeps recommending it. Here is what actually works in .NET. - [Your Privacy Docs Are Fiction: Let's Fix That with .NET CLI Tools](https://daily-devops.net/posts/privacy-audit-automation-dotnet-cli/): Quarterly audits can't catch PII added last Tuesday. Build .NET CLI tools that make compliance a build-time fact, not a spreadsheet fantasy. - [Security Tests That Prove Themselves](https://daily-devops.net/posts/cli-security-testing-audit/): Build xUnit and WebApplicationFactory security tests that emit timestamped evidence tied to commit hashes. Retire the SharePoint screenshot folder. - [Certified, Filed, Forgotten: The Compliance Trainwreck](https://daily-devops.net/posts/compliance-verification-dotnet-cli/): Consultants paid. Docs filed. Then compliance becomes a Word doc ritual until an audit exposes the drift. CLI tools fix what checklists never could. - [AKS at Scale: Hard-Won Lessons from 1000+ Node Clusters](https://daily-devops.net/posts/aks-at-scale-mega-cluster-lessons/): Real-world lessons from operating 1000+ node AKS clusters: etcd limits, network saturation, observability overhead, and cost spirals you need to know. - [Why Your Azure Portal Clicks Will Fail the Next Audit](https://daily-devops.net/posts/infrastructure-as-code-compliance-bicep/): Azure Portal clicks fail ISO 27017 Control CLD 6.3.1. Move to Bicep so Git history becomes the audit trail and pull requests the change control. - [Stop Deploying Garbage to Production](https://daily-devops.net/posts/continuous-deployment-security-gates/): Failing tests as warnings, secrets in Git, no approvals. Build GitHub Actions gates that enforce ISO 27001 A.14.2 and A.18.2 before production. - [Hybrid AKS: Bridging Cloud and On-Prem with Azure Arc](https://daily-devops.net/posts/hybrid-aks-on-prem-azure-arc/): Practical patterns for connecting AKS to on-prem: ExpressRoute, VPN connectivity, Azure Arc management, DNS resolution, and identity federation. - [AKS Disaster Recovery: Why Your Untested Backup Will Fail](https://daily-devops.net/posts/disaster-recovery-business-continuity-aks/): AKS outages happen. Build a tested DR plan with Velero, realistic RTO/RPO targets, and multi-region failover steps your team can run under pressure. - [Container Registry & Image Security in AKS Deployments](https://daily-devops.net/posts/container-registry-image-security-aks/): ACR security is foundational. Learn practical hardening: image scanning, signing, RBAC, private endpoints, and policy enforcement for AKS clusters. - [Trust Is Not a Control: ISO 27001 Compliance via GitHub](https://daily-devops.net/posts/change-control-github-branch-protection/): "We trust our developers" fails audits. GitHub branch protection makes ISO 27001 change control technically enforceable, not just documented. - [Multi-AKS Cluster Networking & Hub-Spoke Topology](https://daily-devops.net/posts/multi-aks-cluster-networking-hub-spoke/): Practical multi-cluster AKS networking with VNet peering, hub-spoke routing, DNS, shared ingress, and clear criteria to keep mesh complexity in check. - [Observability in AKS CNI Overlay: When Pod IPs Hide Behind Nodes](https://daily-devops.net/posts/observability-logging-aks-cni-overlay/): CNI Overlay hides pod IPs behind nodes, breaking observability. Practical patterns for log aggregation, network flows, and debugging at scale. - [Your Incident Response Plan Is a Lie. Here's How to Fix It.](https://daily-devops.net/posts/incident-response-github-actions/): ISO 27001 demands effective incident response. GitHub Actions transforms your dusty Word doc into automated workflows that actually work at 3 AM. - [AKS Cost Optimization: Resource Governance That Actually Works](https://daily-devops.net/posts/cost-optimization-resource-governance-aks/): How to control AKS costs with pod density, node-pool design, spot VMs, and FinOps tagging—without sacrificing reliability or operational control. - [AKS Cluster Upgrades: Zero-Downtime Operations That Actually Work](https://daily-devops.net/posts/cluster-upgrades-zero-downtime-aks/): Master AKS upgrades with cordon/drain mechanics, Pod Disruption Budgets, multi-node-pool rollouts, and automation for zero-downtime operations. - [Pod Identity & Access Control in AKS: What Actually Breaks](https://daily-devops.net/posts/pod-identity-access-control-aks/): Workload Identity Federation changed how AKS handles authentication. Credential leaks, RBAC failures, identity drift: what breaks and how to fix it. - [AKS Architecture & Operations — The Complete Series](https://daily-devops.net/posts/aks-architecture-operations/): Nine articles on production AKS—identity, storage, multi-cluster networking, cost governance, DR, and running 1000-node clusters in practice. - [Stoßlüften: The Architecture of Intentional Resets](https://daily-devops.net/posts/stossluften-and-software-systems/): Hidden decay slips past green dashboards: intentional resets, rebuilds, and reproducibility checks expose what monitoring quietly keeps hiding. - [Alphabet Soup: The Format Buffet Nobody Ordered](https://daily-devops.net/posts/alphabet-soup-file-formats/): CSV breaks on commas. YAML breaks on spaces. JSON breaks on trailing commas. TOML, TAML, TOON, CCL joined the chaos. Nobody wins. Here's why. - [.NET CLI 10 – Microsoft Finally Realizes DevOps Exists](https://daily-devops.net/posts/dotnet-10-cli-devops/): .NET 10 CLI finally ships features DevOps teams needed years ago: built-in container builds, ephemeral tools, and machine-readable schemas across the SDK. - [Stop Typing: The .NET CLI Tab Completion You've Been Missing](https://daily-devops.net/posts/dotnet-cli-expanding-scope-autocomplete/): .NET 10 ships native tab completion for the dotnet CLI. One command, no Register-ArgumentCompleter snippets, and your shell finally remembers. - [.NET 10 Testing: Microsoft Finally Fixed the Test Runner (Mostly)](https://daily-devops.net/posts/dotnet-10-testing/): Microsoft.Testing.Platform replaces VSTest in .NET 10. See what improves, what breaks, and why your global.json now matters in IDE and CI reliably. ## Optional - [Full site index for LLMs](https://daily-devops.net/llms.txt) - [Full content of all articles](https://daily-devops.net/llms-full.txt) - [RSS for this tag](https://daily-devops.net/tags/devops/feed.rss) - [Atom for this tag](https://daily-devops.net/tags/devops/feed.atom) - [JSON Feed for this tag](https://daily-devops.net/tags/devops/feed.json)