Stop being a "Hero" of a broken pipeline. 55 Variables Audit 🛡️

Being an "Indispensable Hero" who fixes production at 3 AM is a trap. Real seniority is about building systems that don't need heroes. 📉 In this video, I audit a production pipeline with 55 variables. Half of them were "dead weight" — plaintext secrets and deprecated tokens from 2021. 💀 I’ll show you the exact pattern to kill the variable graveyard and migrate to a Zero Trust model using Azure Key Vault and Managed Identities (UAMI). What you will learn: 🧪 How to audit your "Secret Graveyard" (25 active vs 30 dead). 🏗️ The migration pattern: Store secret NAMES in YAML, not values. 🛡️ Why Service Principals are duct tape and why UAMI is the future. 🧼 Why secrets management is hygiene, not a project. 🌐 Full guides and engineering stories: https://devopsdive.com #devops #azure #cybersecurity #keyvault #dead #hero #cloudengineering #devopsdive