I designed and wrote my GPG and YubiKey guide with two AI models. I expected it to be faster. It was not. Here is what AI actually changed about how I work, and where my own discipline still mattered.
A practical, modern guide to signing your git commits with GPG and a YubiKey. Why it matters, where the common advice is overkill, and how to set it up properly.
Since I worked as an architect in the compliant financial industry, I have been signing my git commits so that people cannot impersonate me in source code. I have always defaulted to a single GPG personal key that I could also use for both personal and work. But suddenly I needed to juggle two keys.
People love checklists because they give the illusion of an easy success. But DevOps is not straight-forward and looks different for each team and application. That is why I conduct reviews with Azure customers as an engineer at Microsoft in an interview-style discussion. And like an interview, I'm not challenging your answers, but your thought process.
Azure Pipelines and Terraform make it easy to get started deploying infrastructure from templates. But how do you go from sample code to real life implementation, integrating git workflows with deployments and scaling across across multiple teams? Here are 5 Best Practices to get you started on the right foot.