When moving to a DevOps way of working it is important to have a good set of rules on how to work with software and infrastructure. When looking into Azure this rule set can be converted into Azure Policy and policies rules. Azure policies enforce rules and effects over the resources, so those resources stay…
The terms Continuous Deployment and Continuous Delivery are most of the time mistaken with each other. The abbreviation CD is sometime used for Continuous Deployment and sometimes used for Continuous Delivery! Hack I even use the terms in wrong situations were I forget to mention the right one, but there is a real difference between…
This week I released a new extension for Azure Pipelines called Version number counter. With this extension you add the ability to auto increment a version number for for example a build or release. Features Keys features of this extension are: Auto increment patch version number. Ability to manually change the version number. Auto increment…
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 that you can configure on the utility task: Argument Description Azure function URL The URL…
Today I published an extension for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) that gives you the ability to add and remove role based access assignments in Azure. VSTS Extension The screenshot below shows the extension. The extension can do two actions: Remove an Azure Role Assignment on a Resource Group. Add an Azure Role…
Today I published an extension for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) that gives you the ability to deploy PowerBI files (pbix) to PowerBI.com. It uses the PowerBI API that has the following operations (at the time of writing this article): Dataset operations: Get and create Datasets. Table operations: Get Tables and update Table schema. Row…
You can think of many situations where you would like to create a self hosted machine for Visual Studio team services (VSTS). Installing and configuring a self hosted machine requires only a few steps. Before you begin make sure the system meets the pre-requisites: Windows 10 and Beyond (64-bit): No known system prerequisites at this time.…
A couple of days ago I started developing extensions for Build and Release pipelines of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). One of these extensions is finished and I wanted to share it with the community. VSTS Extension The extension that I created is a build or release tasks that can be used to extract…
This year is my second year at Build. Most announcement during Build are given on Day 1. This blog post is a summary of announcement that I heard of during my sessions. The sessions I followed on day 1 are: Keynote DevOps for every Team Asp.Net Core 2.0 Continuous Delivery on Microsoft Azure Azure Compute:…
This post is the third and last one in a series of posts and will help you by deploying a CI build for a Azure Function. Prerequisites This blog post is totally written using the Azure Function Visual Studio template. Information and the Azure Function tools download are listed below: Finished Part 2 – Create…
This post is the second one in a series of three posts and will help you by creating a CI build for a Azure Function. Prerequisites This blog post is totally written using the Azure Function Visual Studio template. Information and the Azure Function tools download are listed below: Finished Part 1 – Creating a…
As mentioned in the overview Azure Function provide event-based serverless computing that make it easy to develop and scale your application, paying only for the resources your code consumes during execution. Since a couple of months Visual Studio contains a preview with the ability to create a function project in Visual Studio, add functions using…