DevOps

The Journey Begins – DevOps starts with culture!

June 29, 2019 Jun 29, 2019 06/29/19

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At this point we were five plus years into a local transformation that was underappreciated and overlooked by the global IT organization. The frustration was high and the hope was waning. For me this became my motivation to start a journey to understand why some organization can adopt DevOps strategies successfully and other struggle.

Tribal Knowledge – The Anti-DevOps Culture

June 27, 2019 Jun 27, 2019 06/27/19

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By removing or reducing tribal knowledge from projects and teams, organizations set themselves up for success in an ever-changing landscape (exponentially changing). In other words, you can add to your DevOps culture (or create one) simply by subtracting the bad habits and behaviors.

DevOps and Your Definition of Done

June 10, 2019 Jun 10, 2019 06/10/19

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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

June 8, 2019 Jun 8, 2019 06/8/19

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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

June 5, 2019 Jun 5, 2019 06/5/19

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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

June 3, 2019 Jun 3, 2019 06/3/19

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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

June 2, 2019 Jun 2, 2019 06/2/19

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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

June 1, 2019 Jun 1, 2019 06/1/19

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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.

Enabling DevOps in A Hybrid Cloud Environment at DoD

May 22, 2019 May 22, 2019 05/22/19

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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.

May 20, 2019 May 20, 2019 05/20/19

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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.

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