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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 ...

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...

Hybrid Model for GitHub and Azure DevOps – Enjoy the best of both worlds

April 27, 2022 Apr 27, 2022 04/27/22

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Shany Wiesel explores the benefits of a hybrid model using GitHub Enterprise and Azure DevOps. We often hear repeating conversations with Enterprise customers who have invested in Azure DevOps and have great working dev sec ops processes and success enabled by Azure DevOps: While we know that Microsoft is investing ...

Generate a Service Bus SAS Token and Manage Token renewal using Azure Runbooks

November 12, 2020 Nov 12, 2020 11/12/20

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This article covers the process of generating a service bus token using PowerShell, using an azure runbook to cover token generation and renewal, and the how process can be automated and managed with a CI/CD pipeline.

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.