Technology is changing in a very fast pace. If we look at Microsoft technologies like Azure, you see changes every week. Because of this I get a lot of questions from clients and colleagues how I keep up with all the changes and new functionalities. Podcasts As a consultant I travel a lot in my…
Collaborating in a Azure DevOps Git repository with a lot of people could become a chaos regarding branch folders. At the start of a project you can specify naming conventions for the branch names. In these names you can incorporate a ‘/’ and the tooling (Azure Devops, TFS and Visual Studio) will see this as…
Code analysis is a best practice in a operating continuous integration pipeline. SonarQube can be used in combination with Azure DevOps. If you do not know SonarQube, it is tool that centralizes static code analysis and unit test coverage. It can be used across multiple languages and for a single project up to enterprise scale.…
When developing applications for Azure security it always one of the items you need to cross of your list. Many security requirements can be solved by embedding the Azure Key Vault within your application. The Azure Key Vault can help you solve the following problems: Secrets Management Key Management Certificate Management Store secrets backed by…
In some situations, it can be useful to trigger an Azure DevOps pipeline from a pipeline. Triggering a pipeline can be done via the API and trough PowerShell. You can write your own script file and use the PowerShell tasks but there is also a custom task in the Azure DevOps marketplace: Trigger Azure DevOps…
While Power BI started as a self-service tool, it has become a part of the enterprise reporting tooling. With enterprise reporting strong governance can quickly become necessary. This will mean that the reports are being created and managed centrally. When this happens there needs to be a method for managing requirement, changes and bugs. For…
Azure DevOps extensions can be build and deployed by using Azure Pipelines. In the Azure DevOps marketplace there is a extension available that will help us to get everything up and running. In this blog post we will use the following extensions from the Marketplace: Azure DevOps Extension Tasks: Task made by “Microsoft DevLabs” for…
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 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 source projects. The service know exists out of five services that can be used independent of…
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 (Team Foundation Server) to Visual Studio Online to Visual Studio Team Services to Azure DevOps.…