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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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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Azure Pipelines YAML Trigger Overview
I was recently asked about the different triggers in Azure Pipelines YAML. Let's take a closer look at what is offered and how to use them.…
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My presentations from Global Azure Virtual
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.…
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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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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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