Pilot Azure Pipelines GitHub-hosted PAYG agents with measured queue time, cost per successful .NET run, policy checks, and a tested rollback.
Fix AzureStaticWebApp@0 Bash and Docker failures on self-hosted Windows agents with a source-backed preflight and split deployment job.
Keep .NET builds reliable on clean Azure agents: cache NuGet packages, authenticate feeds, validate committed locks on every run, and rebuild project assets.
Bound .NET 11 test runs in Azure Pipelines, preserve every module’s results, and handle timeout and failure-limit exit codes without losing artifacts.
Find Azure Pipelines tasks that still depend on Node.js 6, 10, or 16, test the provider restriction, and migrate owned tasks to Node20_1 safely.
Migrate Azure Pipelines Linux container jobs to the safer Docker socket default, opt in only required jobs, and verify host-daemon access before builds.
