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DevOps and Your Definition of Done

Premier DeveloperJune 10, 2019Jun 10, 201906/10/19

DevOps, among other things, is about collaboration, and a shared responsibility for delivering features into production. Your Definition of Done should reflect this. Learn why and how you should explicitly define Done to improve collaboration and quality.

Understanding Your Cloud Adoption Maturity Level

Premier DeveloperJune 8, 2019Jun 8, 201906/8/19

To be successful an enterprise must address people, process and technology when adopting the cloud. I often witness organizations migrating to Azure focus primarily on the cloud technologies and fail to assess their current maturity readiness.

Azure DevOps: Build pipelines for Arduino microcontrollers

Premier DeveloperJune 5, 2019Jun 5, 201906/5/19

Azure DevOps applies to any language, any platform including Arduino. In this post, I will show you how to build Arduino microcontrollers using Azure DevOps Build pipeline and a custom build agent.

Getting started with Azure Logic Apps

Premier DeveloperJune 3, 2019Jun 3, 201906/3/19

If you’ve ever struggled with automating cloud/on-premises workflows or wondered what of your workflows could be automated, Azure Logic Apps now makes it possible for development and IT teams to automate these workflows with little to no code.

How to fetch a user’s profile from Azure Active Directory using PowerShell

Premier DeveloperJune 2, 2019Jun 2, 201906/2/19

On my recent journey helping customers migrate from TFS to VSTS; one of the most common obstacle is verifying that users marked for active import to VSTS have matching AAD records. Thankfully there is a fairly streamlined way to do this using PowerShell and the Azure Graph API.

Migrating a repo from Bitbucket to Azure DevOps

Premier DeveloperJune 1, 2019Jun 1, 201906/1/19

Migrating from Bitbucket to Azure DevOps is a quick and easy process. Once your code is in DevOps, you’ll have access to all the powerful services Azure has to offer.

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Enabling DevOps in A Hybrid Cloud Environment at DoD

Premier DeveloperMay 22, 2019May 22, 201905/22/19

Learn how DoD leverages Azure DevOps to promote code from higher information level (IL) environment from a lower IL environment using Microsoft-Hosted and Self-Hosted Agents.

Conflicting Principles; DevOps VS ITIL.

Premier DeveloperMay 20, 2019May 20, 201905/20/19

On the surface DevOps and ITIL seem to be contradictory practices, with the former being more used in development work and the latter being more used for services/operations. However, if we drill down into their fundamentals you will find that DevOps cannot exist in its entirety without a framework such as ITIL.

Using Azure DevOps REST API with Node.js to retrieve repo permissions

Premier DeveloperMay 19, 2019May 19, 201905/19/19

In this post, we will show you how to retrieve Azure DevOps permissions using the REST APIs with NodeJS. You can use this as a starter to consume other Azure DevOps REST APIs as documented at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/azure/devops/?view=azure-devops-rest-5.0.

Azure DevOps Pipelines: Leveraging OWASP ZAP in the Release Pipeline

Premier DeveloperMay 14, 2019May 14, 201905/14/19

As part of an organization’s automated Release pipeline, it is important to include security scans and report on the results of these scans. One tool used in the industry is the OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP).

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