Yesterday I realised that the last time I connected via RDP into a server was back in May. That talks volumes about how much cloud-native...

I was talking with Mohamed about this earlier today - it’s something that can make you think you are off the track while in reality...

I am writing this post because I’ve been asked four times within two weeks, so it acts as a public service announcement :-)

Something that’s really fascinating for me is how serverless brings new life to existing pieces of technology - in this case, Azure Function Apps. PowerShell-based...

I am currently working with a client that’s got a very well made Landing Zone (we are talking tens of subscriptions with nested Management Groups),...

I ran into this interesting bug the other day - let’s say this is our repository:

If you import or fork a repository with many YAML pipelines you will soon face this issue…

The title is a bit cheeky… but I just realised that you can pick-up a website in Edge and make it an app by clicking...

I blogged about the toolkit in the past, Microsoft Security Code Analysis is something that you should look at if you want to integrate a...

If you want to approach GitHub Issues for your projects, sooner or later you are going to need a form of project management. It can...

Last week a colleague (hi Kapil!) ran into an interesting scenario:

I keep talking about Azure Pipelines a lot these days and there are so many features in the Pipelines as Code implementation you just miss...

I recently spent a lot of time working on this topic, which in a nutshell can be summarised as:

YAML pipelines for CI/CD are finally GA. Hooray!

Another integration between Azure DevOps and GitHub is in work planning and tracking, or project management if you like.

I bought this book a few weeks ago after a suggestion by fellow MVP Wouter de Kort:

GitHub’s marketing headline is very clear IMHO:

If you want to start approaching GitHub Actions, you can easily do that targeting Continuous Integration.

Continuing my exploration of GitHub from Azure DevOps, the next topic which caught my attention is the equivalence between Azure DevOps and GitHub at service...

It’s been a while I wanted to spend proper time with GitHub Actions and compare it with Azure Pipelines. Today thanks to the storm this...

It all starts from this error…

One of the most demanded features for multi-stage pipelines in Azure DevOps is the possibility of natively targeting VMs. As of today you can easily...

I was discussing this with a colleague a couple of days ago (if you are reading this, hi Keith!): can we easily build a build...

Here it is, the most awaited book this year for whoever is even tangentially involved with DevOps…

This happens fairly often in restricted configurations where there are proxies, firewalls, etc… Let’s say you want to update your Azure Pipelines agent from the...

As part of a solid engineering practices one of the first things I flag up during an assessment is how you handle secrets - their...

This is a crucial but often overlooked detail when it comes to corporate adoption of Azure DevOps - how can I prevent users from creating...

It’s one of these things that go unnoticed until you actually stumble upon them: did you know that Azure DevOps has a number of branch...

As much as I am a fan of Microsoft Secure Code Analysis I would not go and blindly integrate the whole suite without a degree...

I recently got in touch with the Microsoft Secure Code Analysis team as part of my deeper research on DevSecOps practices, and I was astounded...

It’s been a while since my last book review - unfortunately I did not read any work-related book for the last few months, and that...

Picking up from my last post, a question I regularly get after showing these tools is: Should I apply all of these (tools and practices)...

For my latest session (at WinOps 2019, brilliant conference as usual) I dabbled with some addition to my session on Code Quality and DevSecOps. One...

Build Retention Policies have always been a contentious thing to talk about: at some point, you need to let go of your old builds. This...

Azure DevOps is a complex platform and today I found out something quite interesting: system-wide flaky test detection. A really neat feature indeed - you...

If you used Azure DevOps long enough, you will eventually run into a situation like this - your Service Principal will expire and throw this...

Azure DevOps is a brilliant platform with a flexibility second to none, so it comes fairly natural to try and push its boundaries more and...

The Azure DevOps team released a new Auditing feature a couple of days ago, and then a question immediately sprung up: what is the difference...

All technology tools and platforms have some feature which, for one reason or another, are less known and used compared to others. More often than...

Sometimes simple things seem really hard - rollback strategies seem to end up in this category! Let’s make things simple: each and every release pipeline...

Today is an important day. Today is Renewal Day for a sizeable amount of the Microsoft MVP population, and I was renewed as well for...

This post stems from a discussion I had a few days ago: sometimes we just forget how powerful having an Agent on a target system...

This year I hosted the Global DevOps Bootcamp 2019 for London, and the theme of the event was You Build It, You Run It! -...

More than ten years ago I was at the beginning of my career, and I bought a book - “Team Foundation Server 2008 in action”....

You might have got it - I am very, very keen on YAML Build and Release Pipelines, because they unleash the power of a full-fledged...

At Build the Azure DevOps team announced YAML pipelines for the deployment side of the story. I am very excited, because I believe this changes...

What should you do if you want to have a Pipelines job that loops based on dynamic inputs? Working around this problem has always been...

This is something that comes in very handy - licence management isn't the simplest thing to implement and police. There is always someone who is...

YAML pipelines can be daunty, no question about this - especially if you come from a background where you come from a nice UI like...

Modern deployment patterns rely on automation, everywhere. A common request in this space is to automatically verify if a web resource is up and running...

This was one of those things you never realise until you actually look at it:Have you ever thought that many people just leave that at...

This is fairly quick, but I haven't realised how important it is up to now - a friend made up such a mess of his...

I love the introduction of a Basic Process Template in Azure DevOps, and I will tell you why – it provides a very simple structure...

When you think about it, most of the tasks you carry on in a DevOps environment revolve around automation.Infrastructure as Code? It’s automation, right? Cool....

It might seem funny, it might seem stupid... but this might happen to someone else, so it can be handy for the future. How do...

As I mentioned in my last few posts, I have been working in my spare time to convert the existing scripts I had for Azure...

Plenty of reasons behind this, but you might want to move away from your <organisation>.visualstudio.com URL and onto the new dev.azure.com/<organisation> URL as a matter...

A few days ago I spent a some time reviewing some old repositories of mine (mostly demos) and I realised how cluttered they were.You know...

I am a huge PowerShell fan, and pretty much anybody who knows me is aware of that.Over time I developed my set of scripts for...

I will cover more about my custom PowerShell Azure DevOps task, but I wanted to share this quick tip as I struggled as much as...