🚀 Azure & DevOps Strategy ✅ How would you design a zero-downtime deployment architecture in Azure? ✅ Explain the role of Azure Blueprints in enforcing governance. ✅ How do you configure managed identities in Azure for secure pipeline deployments? ✅ What’s your approach to setting up multi-region redundancy for APIs in Azure? 🚀 CI/CD + Azure Pipelines ✅ How do you conditionally run a pipeline stage only when a specific file is modified? ✅ How do you manage environment secrets and variable groups securely in Azure DevOps? ✅ How would you integrate automated quality gates (SonarQube/Checkmarx) into your pipeline? ✅ Explain pipeline caching and how it helps speed up build jobs. 🚀 Kubernetes Deep-Dive (AKS) ✅ How do you debug an AKS pod stuck in Init state with no logs? ✅ What’s the impact of setting incorrect resource limits on AKS node performance? ✅ Explain how you can configure pod affinity/anti-affinity for zone-level availability. ✅ How do you secure internal AKS communication with mTLS or service mesh? 🚀 Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) ✅ How do you use Terraform workspaces to separate environments? ✅ What’s the difference between count and for_each in Terraform — where would you use each? ✅ How would you prevent accidental deletions in Terraform (e.g., production VMs)? ✅ How do you perform a dry run or preview changes before applying them? 🚀 System Monitoring & Incident Handling ✅ You receive alerts of latency in production — how would you isolate if it’s a DNS, app, or infra issue? ✅ What tools do you prefer for proactive monitoring of AKS ingress traffic? ✅ How would you implement alert deduplication and escalation policies ?