DevOps

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.

Workshop Spotlight: DevOps Fundamentals

April 24, 2021 Apr 24, 2021 04/24/21

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The DevOps fundamentals workshop introduces the business value of DevOps then walks the attendees through the essential practices required for a healthy implementation of DevOps within an Organization.

Azure DevOps Services: Essentials – Git with Visual Studio and VS Code

September 26, 2020 Sep 26, 2020 09/26/20

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The Azure DevOps Services: Essentials – Git with Visual Studio WorkshopPLUS is an instructor-led training course that provides participants with the fundamental knowledge that is required to use Git with Visual Studio. It provides detailed guidance for working with version control, work items, automated builds, and deployments.

Measuring Concurrent Jobs Over Time

July 29, 2020 Jul 29, 2020 07/29/20

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If you are looking to move your Azure DevOps Server or TFS implementation to Azure DevOps Services, you will find that the licensing and pricing around concurrent jobs has changed.