A couple of weeks ago the rename / rebranding of Visual Studio Team Services to Azure DevOps was announced. The rebranding is a great step forward into positioning the product even better and have more value for example for open… Continue Reading
Two weeks ago Microsoft announced Azure DevOps. Azure DevOps is a name change and rebranding of the product Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). The Azure DevOps service consists of more than 15 years experience in software development services from TFS… Continue Reading
Visual Studio Code is becoming one of the tools that you need to use when developing PowerShell scripts. It allows you to debug your scripts. But how do you add parameters for debugging. The upcoming paragraphs will explain how. PowerShell… Continue Reading
A client of my had an error while connecting to different resources within their Kubernetes cluster in Azure (AKS). Kubectl error On the kubectl commands kubectl proxy and kubectl get nodes they got the error: connectex: No connection could be made… Continue Reading
Kubernetes (AKS) can be used for many situations. For a client we needed to make files available trough a Kubernetes Pod. The files needed to be shared between containers, nodes and pods. To make these files available we used a… Continue Reading
When developing containers or applications that need to be hosted on Kubernetes it is handy to have a local Kubernetes cluster. With the use of Docker you can easily create a local single node cluster. Docker Start by installing Docker… Continue Reading
When deploying an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template you have to create a resource group within Azure. To deploy a template via script your script would look like the one below. Select-AzureRmSubscription -SubscriptionId [subscriptionid] New-AzureRmResourceGroup -Name [name] -Location [location] -Force… Continue Reading
Instead of storing user credentials of an external system in a configuration file, you should store them in the Azure Key Vault. Before MSI (Managed Service Identity) you would have to store the credentials to use the key vault in… Continue Reading
Since a couple of months I have been developing extensions for Visual Studio Team Service (VSTS). I created extensions for task I had to do manual a couple of times. Last week I updated all of my extensions. File Content… Continue Reading
Most of the times companies have rules in place for managing their Azure environment. The main rules that should be in place are “Azure Policies” and naming conventions. Naming convention should be used to easily identify Azure resources and making… Continue Reading
To connect an Azure App Service to a on-premise database you can make use of different solutions. Two of those solutions are: Hybrid Connection VPN On my blog I wrote a couple of articles on Hybrid Connections and this time… Continue Reading
A utility task is available for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to invoke an http triggered Azure function. The ability to invoke a Function from your CI/CD pipeline offers a lot of new possibilities within those pipelines. Arguments The Arguments… Continue Reading