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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.

Building a better DSC script

May 10, 2019 May 10, 2019 05/10/19
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For those people that want to build a better DSC script, one that checks for most conditions and wants to keep their custom scripts from failing with no error handling, check out these recommendations.

Using Azure DevOps to Deploy Web Applications to Virtual Machines

April 23, 2019 Apr 23, 2019 04/23/19
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While it’s worth mentioning that hosting web applications using Azure PaaS offerings or via containers would be the preferred route for a variety of reasons, VMs are still widely used in many organizations. With that scenario in mind, this post is geared to helping you get started with streamlining your release process. As a note, much of this process translates easily to using Azure PaaS offerings.

Tips on Starting DevOps Projects

April 20, 2019 Apr 20, 2019 04/20/19
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DevOps uses Agile principles and combines infrastructure, development, QA, and operations engineers together through the entire cycle of software development, deployment, and support, eliminating many of the silos between teams. Most importantly, DevOps improves communication and enables better collaboration, helping enterprises to bring products and innovation to market much more rapidly.

Accessibility Testing with Azure DevOps Pipelines

March 5, 2019 Mar 5, 2019 03/5/19
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I was recently working with one of my customers to help them improve the usability of their applications as mandated by their IT staff. The goal was to create quality web applications that can be equally useful to all users including those with disabilities. Together, we reviewed many good tools and potential best practices, but we wanted something that would specifically run as part of the application release process.

Hosting Python packages in Azure DevOps

January 21, 2019 Jan 21, 2019 01/21/19
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What I wanted to accomplish here was simply to create a redistributable Python package. Also show some of the practices on how to work with Python in a Windows environment, but I could not stop there. I went ahead and built a complete CI/CD pipeline for the package, showing how easy it is and how well Python projects integrate with Azure DevOps.

DevOps and Culture, part 1

January 16, 2019 Jan 16, 2019 01/16/19
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Peter Drucker famously said, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” This is a great introduction to how we think about DevOps and in this article, I’m going to unpack this statement so that we have a bit more context. This is the first part of multiple articles on culture as it relates to DevOps.