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Improvements to code coverage experience under test automation

July 20, 2023 Jul 20, 2023 07/20/23
Ravi Kumar
If you're using Azure DevOps for your CI/CD pipeline, you may be interested in our recent improvements to code coverage testing. Code coverage tests can help you identify areas of your code that are not tested, or not tested enough, and improve the quality of your automated tests and overall code quality. With our recent updates, you can now ...

Service Connection guidance for AKS customers using Kubernetes tasks

April 13, 2023 Apr 13, 2023 04/13/23
Eric van Wijk
Kubernetes tasks & Service Connections Azure DevOps supports Kubernetes deployments with a number of included tasks: AzureFunctionOnKubernetes HelmDeploy Kubernetes KubernetesManifest These tasks can be configured to target a Kubernetes cluster in a number of ways, using the connectionType property: Connection Type ...

Integrate Azure Load Testing into Azure DevOps

March 7, 2023 Mar 7, 2023 03/7/23
April Edwards
Azure Load Testing became generally available in February 2023. It shipped with a lot of new features that were requested by you, the community. You can get started quickly from within the Azure portal, or upload your own custom JMeter script. Azure Load Testing allows you to find bottlenecks within your application stack, load testing your ...

How to build, test and deploy your application using Azure and GitHub

March 6, 2023 Mar 6, 2023 03/6/23
Liam Hampton
In this blog-tutorial you will: Use GitHub Codespaces (or your own IDE) Create a simple Go web server application Run unit tests on the application Build the application into a multi-stage Docker Image Use the Azure Container Registry (ACR) to store your Docker Images Deploy the application into Azure App Services Automate the delivery ...

End of support for Azure Pipelines agents running on CentOS 6, Debian 4.9, Fedora 32, Ubuntu 16, macOS 10.14, and older versions

February 22, 2023 Feb 22, 2023 02/22/23
Bohdan Janousek
In the blog post Upgrade of .NET agent for Azure Pipelines, we explained our plan to update the agent implementation from .NET Core 3.1 to .NET 6 in order to support newer operating systems. If you run your agents on any operating system supported by .NET 6, then this will be seamless to you. However, if you run the agent on one of the ...

Learn Azure DevOps from Zero to Hero

January 27, 2023 Jan 27, 2023 01/27/23
April Edwards
Azure DevOps is FULL of so many features! Myself and Nana from Techworld with Nana teamed up to bring you an Azure DevOps Zero to Hero video! Many of you reading this blog may already be very experienced with Azure DevOps, please share this video to your colleagues and teams that are just getting started. The community (i.e. yourselves!) ...

Disable creation of classic pipelines

January 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023 01/24/23
Silviu
YAML pipelines offer the best security for your Azure Pipelines. In contrast to classic build and release pipelines, YAML pipelines: Can be code reviewed. YAML pipelines are no different from any other piece of code. You can prevent malicious actors from introducing malicious steps in your pipelines by enforcing the use of Pull Requests to ...

Node runner update guidance for Azure Pipelines task authors

January 6, 2023 Jan 6, 2023 01/6/23
Eric van Wijk
Introduction This blog post contains important guidance for Azure Pipelines task authors. Task authors are developers that create custom pipeline tasks that are published on the Marketplace and/or used internally in their organization. Background Azure Pipeline tasks are executed using Task runners, which in turn are bundled with and ...

Upgrade of .NET agent for Azure Pipelines

November 23, 2022 Nov 23, 2022 11/23/22
Bohdan Janousek
We are upgrading the .NET used by Azure Pipelines agent from current .NET Core 3.1 to .NET 6. This is to support new Apple silicon hardware as well as newer operating systems such as Ubuntu 22.04, or Windows on ARM64. Another reason for the .NET upgrade is the fact the .NET Core 3.1 version is already in maintenance phase and the support ends ...