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Azure DevOps Pipelines: Practices for Scaling Templates

August 11, 2023 Aug 11, 2023 08/11/23
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John Folberth explores what is considered "good practices" when looking to leverage one repository consisting of YAML templates in this blog series. Introduction This article is part of a larger series on Azure DevOps Pipelines regarding leveraging YAML templating. As part of this series, I have had numerous requests or questions ...

Azure DevOps Pipelines: Leveraging Stages with YAML Objects

March 23, 2023 Mar 23, 2023 03/23/23
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John Folberth continues his series on Azure DevOps Pipelines, by Leveraging Stages with YAML Objects. Introduction By now we’ve covered the basics on tasks, jobs, stages, environments, variables and templates for jobs and tasks. It is now time to move towards stage templates. Additionally, to assist with templating we will cover ...

Azure DevOps Pipelines: If Expressions and Conditions

February 16, 2023 Feb 16, 2023 02/16/23
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John Folberth continues his series on Azure DevOps Pipelines by taking a deep dive into If Expressions and Conditions. At this stage in the series we’ve talked about tasks, jobs, stages, how to template them, and how to leverage environments in variables. This post will attempt to cover some basics around using if and conditions in ...

Azure DevOps Pipelines: Tasks, Jobs, Stages and more!

January 21, 2023 Jan 21, 2023 01/21/23
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John Folberth recently contributed a series of Azure DevOps posts in our Tech Community covering a range of Pipeline topics, including Template Tasks, Jobs, Environments, Variables, Jobs, and Stages.  There is a lot of great information, so be sure to check these out. Azure DevOps Pipelines: Tasks, Jobs, Stages When starting in ...

Azure DevOps – Leveraging Pipeline Decorators for Custom Process Automation

January 20, 2023 Jan 20, 2023 01/20/23
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In this post, Jin Lee explores how Azure DevOps Pipeline Decorators can bridge the gap in a cloud environment with a customer's existing security processes on their on-premises IIS server. Background In the recent pandemic, health institutions all across the world have been pushed to their limits on about every facet. Through this, ...

Getting secrets from Key Vault in YAML pipeline

September 12, 2022 Sep 12, 2022 09/12/22
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Andrew Redman spotlights how to use a Key Vault Task inside an Azure DevOps pipeline to automate a deployment using secrets. Keeping your connection strings and secrets secure is not necessarily only a concern of just one type of industry.  The best practice would be to keep security at the top of your mind regardless of if you are ...

DevOps Fragility, Antipatterns, and Consequences

June 6, 2022 Jun 6, 2022 06/6/22
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Mark Eisenberg and Keith Anderson spotlight app architecture, organizational structure, and testing responsibilities and the importance of how these areas can improve or hinder the effectiveness of DevOps practices. Overview DevOps was born from the idea of applying development practices and tooling to the creation and management of IT...

How To Batch Importing Azure DevOps Work Items Using Azure DevOps APIs and C#

May 30, 2022 May 30, 2022 05/30/22
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Kyle Johnson and Sash Kavalaparambil explore batch import for Azure DevOps work items using REST APIs. While you can upload a CSV with work items into Azure DevOps, there is so much flexibility you get when you import work items using the Azure DevOps API. What you need You can do this by creating an app registration and using MSAL to...

DevOps Nirvana – Part 1

May 27, 2022 May 27, 2022 05/27/22
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Randy Pagels takes you on a DevOps journey to frame up the way an organization would foster a strong DevOps culture. Contributions made to this blog post by Kyle Burns, Microsoft Cloud Solution Architect and Able Wang, former Principal Cloud Advocate and DevOps Lead at Microsoft, his contributions and skills will be forever appreciated...

Workshop Spotlight: GitHub

August 31, 2021 Aug 31, 2021 08/31/21
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If you are looking to build your team's expertise with GitHub, there is no shortage of resources available. This post is to spotlight a few of the popular workshops available to organizations looking to build expertise with GitHub.