Azure DevOps Pipeline Templates and External Repositories

Working with Azure DevOps you can use YAML to create the build and deployment pipelines. To make this easier and more repeatable you can also use something called templates. However, if you want to use them in multiple repositories you don’t want to repeat yourself. There is a method to get these shared as I will demo.

Azure REST API Scopes

When working with the Azure REST API you need to provide the scope in all API requests, so Azure knows where you are looking. However, throughout their documentation that although they ask for the scope they do not explain or link to an explanation of what a scope is and what the formats are. Therefore,ContinueContinue reading “Azure REST API Scopes”

How to authenticate with Fortify Security with PowerShell

Fortify, a security scanning tool for code, has some great features but also some limiting features. Therefore I sought to use their open REST API to expand on its functionality to enhance how we are using it within the DevOps pipeline. This was of course step one to find how to authenticate with Fortify toContinueContinue reading “How to authenticate with Fortify Security with PowerShell”

Azure Container with PowerShell

When I was trying to use PowerShell to action some Azure functionality, I found it very scattered and hard to get one answer, so here I give you the golden goose for Adding, Removing, Emptying and Copying files to an Azure Container using PowerShell.