Day 81 of DevOps, Day 31 of Azure. Both tasks today involved reading something that was not there.

A pipeline Test stage checks that an application is accessible, and would report success whether or not the Deploy stage that ran before it accomplished anything. And an Azure quota error left one field blank, and I read the blank as evidence about what the quota applied to.

One Jenkins task, one Azure task. Build a two-stage pipeline that deploys and then tests, then deploy a Python web app. The tasks come from the KodeKloud Engineer platform.

This is the last Jenkins day. Days 82 to 93 are Ansible, which is the gap I have been calling the clearest one on my CV since August.

Task 1: Two stages, deploy and test

The task: a Pipeline job named deploy-job with a Deploy stage that pulls from master and a Test stage that confirms the application is accessible.

Step 1: Stages, not jobs

Day 80 chained two jobs.…