Azure DevOps has the ability to add multiple stage approval styles like human intervention, Azure Monitoring and schedules. However, there is not the ability to value if a source has changed before triggering a Stage. This can be done on the Pipeline level, but not the Stage level where it can be helpful to haveContinue reading "Automatic Change Checking on Pipeline Stages"
Auto Purge Azure Container Registry Images
When adding images into the Azure Container Registry you might start getting a backlog of images that need to be cleaned down. Azure CLI has some features, but you might want more... With the Azure CLI you can use the 'ACR' commands, which contain the option of 'purge'. This can be combined with a tagContinue reading "Auto Purge Azure Container Registry Images"
Setup Hyper Guest for SSH without IP Address
When setting up the Hyper-V Guest hosts, I found it a little tricky and hard to find documentation on how to easily set these up, so I thought I would share how I got them into a configuration with the most simple process. With this setup you can also SSH into the Guest Host evenContinue reading "Setup Hyper Guest for SSH without IP Address"
Microsoft Upgrade Assistant
Dotnet Core has been released for a very long time now and everyone is getting on the cutting edge of the SDK technology when it is realeased. However, there has been some assistance missing in helping, especially .Net Framework projects, upgrade to the next version. Now 2021 they have brought the tooling out! and byContinue reading "Microsoft Upgrade Assistant"
SSH to Hyper-V Virtual Machine using SSH.NET without IP Address
I have uses the Dotnet Core Nuget package SSH.NET to SSH into machines a few times, is a very simple, slick and handy tool to have. However, you cannot SSH into a Virtual Machine(VM) in Hyper-V that easy without some extra fiddling to get an exposed IP Address. With your standard SSH command you canContinue reading "SSH to Hyper-V Virtual Machine using SSH.NET without IP Address"
Automate Security for Azure Container Registry
From March 2021 Azure is deprecating the Container Setting in Azure Web Apps, which changes you to use the new Development Center. This look very nice, but there is a change that is going to force you to have weaker security. This change is to have the Admin Credentials enabled, but there is something youContinue reading "Automate Security for Azure Container Registry"
Merge Azure DevOps Pipeline Templates
As mentioned in my previous post about Azure DevOps Local Pipeline Testing, the available method of testing with the Azure DevOps API doesn't have the feature to merge the YAML Templates. Therefore, I have set out to try and solve this issue.. You can view the full PowerShell script on GitHub.(https://github.com/PureRandom/AzureDevOpsYamlMerge-ps) Please feel free toContinue reading "Merge Azure DevOps Pipeline Templates"
Testing Azure DevOps Pipelines Locally
I have tried and tried before, plus also read a lot of other people asking for the ability to test Azure YAML Pipelines locally. Now although it is not perfect and some room for improvement, Microsoft has create a way to test your pipeline with some local testing and remote testing without having to checkContinue reading "Testing Azure DevOps Pipelines Locally"
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