The Managed DevOps Pools (MDP) resource in Azure has been Generally Available since Ignite 2024. Let's see how to set one up, and discuss why I think this solves a common problem in my projects: requiring deployments into VNETs.…
This post will go through the infrastructure implementations for two different use cases: scale-to-zero agents that die after every run, and static agents that persist until killed.…
Recent changes in the Azure DevOps UI have made it somewhat difficult to refresh secrets on the Azure ARM service connections, here are a couple of ways you can work around this.…
Due to the Covid-19 situation, the excellent Global Azure Bootcamp had to be transformed into a virtual event this year. I was already part of organizing a local physical event, so I thought it would at least make sense to participate in the virtual event.…
I've been using Azure Pipelines YAML schema for quite a while now, but the difficulty of selecting specific artifacts has been bothering me. Check out how I've overcome the issue.…
We wanted to generate migration scripts in our build steps and then separately run them against our SQL database in the release pipeline. This was fairly straightforward on paper, but in our situation turned out to include some gotchas I was not aware of before.…