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
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 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
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
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… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
In some situations you will look into a current Azure Environment and the setup/governance of it and need to migrate or move resources around. The below script will help you with exporting the Azure resources into a CSV file, from… Continue Reading