{"id":4745,"date":"2026-03-25T21:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T16:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itsupportwale.com\/blog\/devops-azure-a-complete-guide-to-streamline-your-workflow\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T21:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T16:18:08","slug":"devops-azure-a-complete-guide-to-streamline-your-workflow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsupportwale.com\/blog\/devops-azure-a-complete-guide-to-streamline-your-workflow\/","title":{"rendered":"DevOps Azure: A Complete Guide to Streamline Your Workflow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pager didn\u2019t just beep. It screamed. It\u2019s a specific frequency\u2014somewhere between a dying hawk and a car alarm\u2014that PagerDuty reserves for the kind of &#8220;Priority 0&#8221; events that end careers. I swiped the screen with a thumb that was shaking more from a lack of sleep than from fear. <\/p>\n<p><strong>03:14:22 UTC.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Error Code: <code>AADSTS7000222<\/code><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Message: <code>The provided client secret keys are expired. Visit the Azure Portal to create new keys for your application, or consider using certificate credentials for added security.<\/code><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I sat up. The room was freezing, the radiator having given up around midnight. I reached for the mug of espresso I\u2019d left on the nightstand\u2014cold, oily, and bitter. Just like the next six hours of my life were going to be. <\/p>\n<p>The message was clear: our primary Service Principal, the one that handles the automated scaling for the entire <code>prod-us-east-2<\/code> cluster, had just timed out. Its secret had hit its one-year expiration. Because we\u2019re a &#8220;fast-moving&#8221; company, nobody had documented which vault held the source of truth, and the rotation script I\u2019d written two years ago had been disabled by a &#8220;Security Architect&#8221; who thought it was too risky. <\/p>\n<p>Now, the cluster was trying to scale out to handle the early morning batch processing for our European clients. It couldn&#8217;t. The nodes were redlining. The site was throwing 503s. And I was the only one awake.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_80 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69e3363c1b6bb\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69e3363c1b6bb\"  aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/itsupportwale.com\/blog\/devops-azure-a-complete-guide-to-streamline-your-workflow\/#INCIDENT-8821_The_Portal_is_a_Liar_and_a_Thief_of_Time\" >[INCIDENT-8821] The Portal is a Liar and a Thief of Time<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/itsupportwale.com\/blog\/devops-azure-a-complete-guide-to-streamline-your-workflow\/#OPS-WAR-ROOM_The_Transition_to_DevOps_Azure_Salvation\" >[OPS-WAR-ROOM] The Transition to DevOps Azure Salvation<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/itsupportwale.com\/blog\/devops-azure-a-complete-guide-to-streamline-your-workflow\/#TECHNICAL_INTERLUDE_1_THE_CLI_TRUTH\" >TECHNICAL INTERLUDE #1: THE CLI TRUTH<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/itsupportwale.com\/blog\/devops-azure-a-complete-guide-to-streamline-your-workflow\/#DEPLOY-PIPELINE-ALPHA_The_Bicep_vs_ARM_Cold_War\" >[DEPLOY-PIPELINE-ALPHA] The Bicep vs. ARM Cold War<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/itsupportwale.com\/blog\/devops-azure-a-complete-guide-to-streamline-your-workflow\/#TECHNICAL_INTERLUDE_2_THE_YAML_INDENTATION_INCIDENT\" >TECHNICAL INTERLUDE #2: THE YAML INDENTATION INCIDENT<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/itsupportwale.com\/blog\/devops-azure-a-complete-guide-to-streamline-your-workflow\/#INFRA-RECOVERY_Managed_Identities_and_the_%E2%80%9CStandard_D2s_v3%E2%80%9D_Trap\" >[INFRA-RECOVERY] Managed Identities and the &#8220;Standard_D2s_v3&#8221; Trap<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/itsupportwale.com\/blog\/devops-azure-a-complete-guide-to-streamline-your-workflow\/#TECHNICAL_INTERLUDE_3_THE_BICEP_FIX\" >TECHNICAL INTERLUDE #3: THE BICEP FIX<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/itsupportwale.com\/blog\/devops-azure-a-complete-guide-to-streamline-your-workflow\/#POST-MORTEM-HARD-TRUTHS_Your_Tools_Wont_Save_You\" >[POST-MORTEM-HARD-TRUTHS] Your Tools Won&#8217;t Save You<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/itsupportwale.com\/blog\/devops-azure-a-complete-guide-to-streamline-your-workflow\/#Related_Articles\" >Related Articles<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"INCIDENT-8821_The_Portal_is_a_Liar_and_a_Thief_of_Time\"><\/span>[INCIDENT-8821] The Portal is a Liar and a Thief of Time<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>My first instinct was the &#8220;Manual Hell&#8221; approach. I know, I know. &#8220;Use the CLI,&#8221; they say. &#8220;Stay in the terminal,&#8221; they say. But when your brain is 40% caffeine and 60% panic, you find yourself clicking into the Azure Portal like a moth to a bug zapper.<\/p>\n<p>I logged into the tenant. The UI felt like it was moving through molasses. I navigated to <strong>App Registrations<\/strong>, searched for the SPN, and clicked <strong>Certificates &amp; secrets<\/strong>. The spinning blue circle of death mocked me for a solid thirty seconds. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Come on, you piece of&#8230;&#8221; I muttered, the words catching in my dry throat.<\/p>\n<p>When it finally loaded, I saw the red text. <em>Expired: 03:14:00 UTC.<\/em> I generated a new secret. I copied the value. Now I just had to update the Key Vault. But wait\u2014which Key Vault? We have fourteen of them in that subscription alone because &#8220;microservices&#8221; apparently means &#8220;give everyone a vault and let God sort them out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I tried to use the search bar. <em>No results found.<\/em> I tried to filter by tags. <em>No tags found.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>I spent forty-five minutes clicking through the UI, manually checking the Access Policies of every vault to see which one had the <code>Microsoft.Compute\/virtualMachines<\/code> provider registered as a contributor. I was drowning in a sea of &#8220;Essentials&#8221; blades and &#8220;Activity Logs&#8221; that told me nothing. The Portal is designed to make simple things look easy and hard things impossible. It\u2019s a dashboard for people who don&#8217;t actually have to fix things at 4 AM.<\/p>\n<p>By 04:00 AM, the latency on our <code>Standard_D2s_v3<\/code> instances in the staging environment\u2014which I\u2019d foolishly used as a canary\u2014was hitting 4000ms. The disk IOPS were throttled because I\u2019d picked a SKU that couldn&#8217;t handle the burst. I was losing the war.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"OPS-WAR-ROOM_The_Transition_to_DevOps_Azure_Salvation\"><\/span>[OPS-WAR-ROOM] The Transition to DevOps Azure Salvation<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>I closed the browser tab with a vengeance. The &#8220;Manual Hell&#8221; phase was over. If I was going to save this, I had to stop acting like a junior admin and start using the <strong>devops azure<\/strong> toolset properly, even if the transition felt like dragging my soul over broken glass.<\/p>\n<p>I opened VS Code and pulled the repository for our infrastructure-as-code. We were in the middle of a half-baked migration from ARM templates to Bicep. Half the modules were legacy JSON garbage that looked like a bracket factory exploded, and the other half were Bicep files that were &#8220;clean&#8221; but lacked the specific parameters needed for our custom VNET injection.<\/p>\n<p>I needed to update the Service Connection in Azure DevOps. This is where the &#8220;devops azure&#8221; workflow usually breaks down: the bridge between the identity provider (Entra ID, or whatever they&#8217;re calling it this week) and the orchestration engine.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"TECHNICAL_INTERLUDE_1_THE_CLI_TRUTH\"><\/span>TECHNICAL INTERLUDE #1: THE CLI TRUTH<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>I ran a quick check to see exactly what the state of my resources was. I didn&#8217;t trust the Portal anymore.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"codehilite\"><code class=\"language-bash\"># Attempting to verify the service principal's current role assignments\naz role assignment list --assignee &quot;d3b07384-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx&quot; --output table\n\n# Result:\n# (stderr) AD Graph lookup failed. This can happen if the service principal \n# has been deleted or if there are eventual consistency issues in Entra ID.\n# (stdout) []\n\n# Let's check the actual resource provider status for the VMSS\naz resource show \\\n  --resource-group &quot;rg-prod-compute-001&quot; \\\n  --name &quot;vmss-app-prod&quot; \\\n  --resource-type &quot;Microsoft.Compute\/virtualMachineScaleSets&quot; \\\n  --api-version &quot;2023-09-01&quot; \\\n  --query &quot;{Status:provisioningState, SKU:sku.name}&quot;\n\n# Result:\n# {\n#   &quot;Status&quot;: &quot;Failed&quot;,\n#   &quot;SKU&quot;: &quot;Standard_D2s_v3&quot;\n# }\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>The <code>provisioningState<\/code> was <code>Failed<\/code>. Of course it was. The scale-set was stuck in a &#8220;Updating&#8221; loop because it couldn&#8217;t authenticate to the Key Vault to pull the disk encryption key. I had to fix the identity, and I had to do it through the pipeline, or the state file would be out of sync forever.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"DEPLOY-PIPELINE-ALPHA_The_Bicep_vs_ARM_Cold_War\"><\/span>[DEPLOY-PIPELINE-ALPHA] The Bicep vs. ARM Cold War<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>I started rewriting the deployment module. We had been using a monolithic ARM template that was 4,000 lines of JSON. If you\u2019ve never had to debug a nested <code>copyIndex()<\/code> function in an ARM template at 4:30 AM, count your blessings. It is a special kind of psychological torture.<\/p>\n<p>I moved the logic to Bicep. Bicep is supposed to be the answer to our prayers, but in a <strong>devops azure<\/strong> environment, it\u2019s just a prettier way to fail. The syntax is cleaner, sure, but the underlying API (Microsoft.Resources\/deployments) still has the same quirks.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote the Bicep module to handle the Managed Identity instead of the Service Principal. That was the goal: get away from secrets that expire. But Managed Identities have their own friction. You can&#8217;t just &#8220;create&#8221; one and use it; you have to wait for the identity to propagate through the Azure global graph. If your pipeline moves too fast, the next step\u2014assigning permissions\u2014will fail with a <code>PrincipalNotFound<\/code> error.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"TECHNICAL_INTERLUDE_2_THE_YAML_INDENTATION_INCIDENT\"><\/span>TECHNICAL INTERLUDE #2: THE YAML INDENTATION INCIDENT<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>I pushed the change to the <code>azure-pipelines.yml<\/code> file. I was confident. I was smug. I was an idiot.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"codehilite\"><code class=\"language-yaml\">stages:\n- stage: Deploy\n  jobs:\n  - job: Infrastructure\n    pool:\n      vmImage: 'ubuntu-latest'\n    steps:\n    - task: AzureResourceManagerTemplateDeployment@3\n      inputs:\n        deploymentScope: 'Resource Group'\n        azureResourceManagerConnection: 'sc-prod-connection'\n        subscriptionId: 'sub-id-hidden'\n        action: 'Create Or Update Resource Group'\n        resourceGroupName: 'rg-prod-compute-001'\n        location: 'East US 2'\n        templateLocation: 'Linked artifact'\n        csmFile: '$(Build.DefinitionName)\/infra\/main.bicep'\n        overrideParameters: &gt;\n          -vmSku &quot;Standard_D2s_v3&quot;\n          -adminPassword &quot;$(vm-password)&quot;\n          -managedIdentityName &quot;id-prod-app&quot;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>The pipeline failed instantly. <strong>Error: Line 42, Column 1: Expected a mapping value.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I stared at line 42 for twenty minutes. It looked perfect. I deleted the spaces. I re-added them. I switched to a different text editor. It turned out that a stray tab character\u2014likely introduced when I copied a snippet from a StackOverflow post from 2019\u2014had infiltrated the file. YAML is a language designed by people who hate engineers. It\u2019s a configuration format that treats whitespace as logic, which is like building a skyscraper where the structural integrity depends on how hard the wind is blowing.<\/p>\n<p>In a <strong>devops azure<\/strong> context, your pipeline is only as strong as your last <code>git push<\/code>. And mine was currently a pile of garbage.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"INFRA-RECOVERY_Managed_Identities_and_the_%E2%80%9CStandard_D2s_v3%E2%80%9D_Trap\"><\/span>[INFRA-RECOVERY] Managed Identities and the &#8220;Standard_D2s_v3&#8221; Trap<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Once the YAML was fixed, the deployment started. But then I hit the next wall: the SKU.<\/p>\n<p>I had specified <code>Standard_D2s_v3<\/code>. In my head, this was fine. It\u2019s a general-purpose SKU. But I forgot that in <code>prod-us-east-2<\/code>, the quota for the <code>D<\/code> series was nearly maxed out. The pipeline sat there for fifteen minutes in &#8220;Created&#8221; status before failing with:<\/p>\n<p><code>Operation results in exceeding quota limits of Core. Maximum allowed: 100, Current in use: 98, Additional requested: 4.<\/code><\/p>\n<p>I had to pivot. I needed to change the SKU to something available, but changing a VM SKU in a Scale Set isn&#8217;t always a &#8220;hot&#8221; swap. Sometimes it requires a full re-image of the nodes. If I did that now, I\u2019d take down the remaining 5% of the site that was still limping along.<\/p>\n<p>I had to manually go into the Bicep file and implement a conditional logic gate for the SKU selection based on the region\u2019s capacity\u2014something that should be handled by the cloud provider but instead falls on the shoulders of the SRE.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"TECHNICAL_INTERLUDE_3_THE_BICEP_FIX\"><\/span>TECHNICAL INTERLUDE #3: THE BICEP FIX<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Here is the Bicep snippet that finally stabilized the environment. Note the use of the <code>existing<\/code> keyword to reference the Key Vault\u2014this is crucial for avoiding the &#8220;Resource Not Found&#8221; errors that plague <strong>devops azure<\/strong> deployments.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"codehilite\"><code class=\"language-bicep\">param location string = resourceGroup().location\nparam vmSku string = 'Standard_D2s_v3'\nparam managedIdentityName string\n\nresource mi 'Microsoft.ManagedIdentity\/userAssignedIdentities@2023-01-31' = {\n  name: managedIdentityName\n  location: location\n}\n\nresource kv 'Microsoft.KeyVault\/vaults@2023-07-01' existing = {\n  name: 'kv-prod-secrets-001'\n}\n\nresource roleAssignment 'Microsoft.Authorization\/roleAssignments@2022-04-01' = {\n  name: guid(mi.id, 'Key Vault Secrets User')\n  scope: kv\n  properties: {\n    principalId: mi.properties.principalId\n    roleDefinitionId: subscriptionResourceId('Microsoft.Authorization\/roleDefinitions', '4633458b-17de-408a-b874-0445c86b69e6')\n    principalType: 'ServicePrincipal'\n  }\n}\n\nresource vmss 'Microsoft.Compute\/virtualMachineScaleSets@2023-09-01' = {\n  name: 'vmss-app-prod'\n  location: location\n  sku: {\n    name: vmSku\n    tier: 'Standard'\n    capacity: 10\n  }\n  properties: {\n    overprovision: true\n    upgradePolicy: {\n      mode: 'Automatic'\n    }\n    virtualMachineProfile: {\n      extensionProfile: {\n        extensions: [\n          {\n            name: 'KeyVaultForLinux'\n            properties: {\n              publisher: 'Microsoft.Azure.KeyVault'\n              type: 'KeyVaultForLinux'\n              typeHandlerVersion: '2.0'\n              autoUpgradeMinorVersion: true\n              settings: {\n                secretsManagementSettings: {\n                  pollingIntervalInS: '3600'\n                  certificateStoreLocation: '\/var\/lib\/waagent\/Microsoft.Azure.KeyVault'\n                }\n              }\n            }\n          }\n        ]\n      }\n    }\n  }\n}\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>I triggered the pipeline again. 05:15 AM. The sun was starting to come up, a sickly orange glow filtering through the smog. I watched the logs.<\/p>\n<p><code>Checking for existing deployment...<\/code><br \/>\n<code>Validating Bicep module...<\/code><br \/>\n<code>Deployment started...<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Ten minutes later, the VMSS started churning. The new nodes were coming online with the Managed Identity. No secrets. No expirations. Just pure, unadulterated Entra ID tokens being passed through the metadata service. <\/p>\n<p>I checked the metrics. The 503s were dropping. The latency was stabilizing. The site was back.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"POST-MORTEM-HARD-TRUTHS_Your_Tools_Wont_Save_You\"><\/span>[POST-MORTEM-HARD-TRUTHS] Your Tools Won&#8217;t Save You<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>It\u2019s 06:00 AM now. The rest of the team is starting to wake up, seeing the &#8220;resolved&#8221; notifications in Slack and pretending they would have known what to do. They\u2019ll talk about &#8220;best practices&#8221; in the retro. They\u2019ll talk about how we need to &#8220;embrace a <strong>devops azure<\/strong> culture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Let me tell you something about &#8220;culture.&#8221; Culture is what\u2019s left after the fire has burned everything else away. <\/p>\n<p>Here are the hard truths from the trenches:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>DevOps Azure is not a product you buy.<\/strong> It\u2019s not a set of licenses for Boards and Pipelines. If you think installing a tool makes you an SRE, you\u2019re the reason I don\u2019t sleep. Most people use these tools to automate their own incompetence. They build faster pipelines to deploy worse code.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Portal is a drug.<\/strong> It\u2019s easy at first, but it makes you weak. If you can&#8217;t rebuild your entire production environment using nothing but a terminal and a few YAML files, you don&#8217;t own your infrastructure\u2014Azure does. And Azure is a fickle god.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Managed Identities are the only way forward.<\/strong> If I see one more Service Principal secret stored in a plaintext Notepad file or a &#8220;shared&#8221; Key Vault, I\u2019m going to lose my mind. Secrets are technical debt that eventually comes due at 3 AM. <\/li>\n<li><strong>Abstraction is a lie.<\/strong> Bicep is better than ARM, but you still need to understand the underlying Resource Provider APIs. You still need to know that <code>Microsoft.Compute\/virtualMachines<\/code> at version <code>2023-09-01<\/code> behaves differently than it did in <code>2021-03-01<\/code>. If you don&#8217;t read the API documentation, you&#8217;re just guessing.<\/li>\n<li><strong>SKUs matter.<\/strong> Don&#8217;t let a developer pick a VM size. They will pick the one with the most RAM and ignore the IOPS limits, the network bandwidth, and the temporary disk size. A <code>Standard_D2s_v3<\/code> is a fine machine until you actually try to do work with it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I\u2019m going to finish this espresso. It\u2019s cold, it\u2019s gritty, and it tastes like failure. But the site is up. The &#8220;devops azure&#8221; workflow held together by the skin of its teeth. <\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t ask me for a &#8220;comprehensive&#8221; report. Don&#8217;t ask me how we can &#8220;empower&#8221; the developers to avoid this next time. The answer is simple: hire people who actually care about how things work under the hood, and stop believing the marketing fluff that says the cloud is easy. <\/p>\n<p>The cloud is just someone else\u2019s computer, and right now, that computer is on fire. I\u2019m just the guy with the bucket. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Status: Resolved.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Root Cause: Human arrogance and a stray tab character.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Next Action: Sleep. 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