Shared Azure API Management Service Design

Azure API Management Services (APIM) are a powerful, flexible, and well-equipped product in Azure, but they are also expensive. There are reasons for this, and ways in general you can reduce the cost with SKUs, but another way is to share it with other products within your organisation instead of having a dedicated APIM. IContinueContinue reading “Shared Azure API Management Service Design”

Download files and folders from Azure DevOps 

If you have a large repository it can be a long wait on the pipeline to get it checked out, only to use a few files. In this post, I will guide you through using PowerShell to download only the files you need with either the Azure DevOps REST API or CLI.  API Service  InContinueContinue reading “Download files and folders from Azure DevOps “

Automating SemVer Versioning

Application versioning is a key principle in the DevOps lifecycle, this is to ensure both users and software providers can easily tack any changes made to the application or environment, we therefore want to ensure that any manual process of updating versions is replaced with an automated process. In this post, I will go throughContinueContinue reading “Automating SemVer Versioning”

Octopus Deploy Runbook cloning with the REST API

Ever wondered how you can copy an Octopus Deploy Runbook from one Project to another? It can’t be done, well at least by using the User Interface. What you can do is use code, so by using the power of the Octopus REST API and some PowerShell we can make it possible. In this post,ContinueContinue reading “Octopus Deploy Runbook cloning with the REST API”

How to get Azure Artifact Feed ID from user readable name

This is a simple post but with some affective content. Sometimes when using Azure DevOps YAML Pipelines you might need to interact with the Azure DevOps Artifacts and their Feeds. However, to do this you need to obtain the Feed ID, which is not obvious where it is and how to get it, especially duringContinueContinue reading “How to get Azure Artifact Feed ID from user readable name”