Azure DevOps Agents in Azure Container Apps
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.…
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Azure DevOps Agents using Managed Identitites
This post shows an example of how to use Azure DevOps Agents without Personal Access Tokens, using Managed Identities instead.…
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User Assigned Managed Identities with Azure DevOps Service Connections
This post will show you how to use User Assigned Identities to back Azure DevOps service connections to Azure…
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Simple Azure app deployment automation for Developers
A look into a simple approach to automating deployments to Azure that can be run locally using powershell. Also includes thoughts on Azure Developer CLI (azd)…
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Updating Azure DevOps Azure Automatic Service Principal secrets
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.…
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Business benefits of robust telemetry practices
In this post, I’ll try to open up a few of the ways of how a robust system of telemetry and feedback will allow your product to be more agile, deploy more often, lead to faster time to market, and change the development culture of your team for the better.…
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Simple staging slots for Azure Storage Static Websites
For our static frontend hosted in Azure Storage, there is no slot swap functionality out of the box. Here's a short walkthrough on how we solved this.…
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Runtime Artifact selection in Azure Pipelines YAML
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.…
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Updating ARM schema & apiVersion values
A short look into what the process is like, what benefits there are and what might go wrong.…
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Build your CI with Azure Pipelines YAML
After a bit of a lull in the content front, I recently wrote a blog…
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Automating .NET EF Core SQL Migration scripts
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.…
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DevOps flow in Azure Data Factory V2
I've recently had the opportunity to get a bit more familiar with Azure Data Factory V2. Here are some of my findings regarding the DevOps side of the product.…
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