In cloud-native engineering, securely connecting Azure DevOps pipelines to private GitHub repositories is essential — especially when working with Terraform modules that define your infrastructure. This guide walks through how to establish that connection using PowerShell Core, ensuring a secure and maintainable setup. 🛠️ Prerequisites Before you begin, make sure you have: An Azure DevOps organisation andContinueContinue reading “Integrate Azure DevOps Pipelines with Private GitHub Repos”
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Progressive Learning in Coding: The Elevator Approach
Learning new skills can be hard and when working with complex technology like coding it can be confusing. Over the years as I have learnt more technologies, I have found an approach that has helped keep learning simple. This is something I was taught before when I first started and continue to pass on toContinueContinue reading “Progressive Learning in Coding: The Elevator Approach”
What you want in a DevOps Engineer
DevOps and DevOps engineers are not a new concept, but there is still a little unknown as to what they are and what they cover. Therefore, it can be hard to gauge what you should look for when recruiting a DevOps Engineer and the skill set that is required. Not all the skills they needContinueContinue reading “What you want in a DevOps Engineer”
AppDynamics grouping Database Custom Metric Queries
When you create Custom Database Metrics in AppDynamics, you first thought is to create a new row for each metric, but if you have a lot to report on this can become messy. Not only that but in the metric view you will have a very long list of reports to go through. Therefore when we had the consultant down at work, we was shown how to group collections of metrics in one query, which then shows in the metric view in a sub folder. This tactic, we could not find anywhere on the internet, so I thought I would share this very handle insight for AppDynamics.
How to setup AppDynamics for multiple .Net Core 2.0 applications
We have decided to go with App Dynamics to do monitoring on our infrastructure and code, which is great and even better they have released support for .Net Core 2.0. However when working with their product and consultant we found an issue with monitoring multiple .Net Core instances on one server, plus with console apps, but we found a way.
Quick Tips for the Sitecore Package Deployer
There is a package for Sitecore called the Sitecore Package Deployer, that updates the Sitecore Content Management System(CMS) with packages from Team Development for Sitecore(TDS). While working with this package extension I have been told and shown two tips that can help with your development and deployment.
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.
How to get the users IP Address in C#.NET?
When you search this on your favourite search engine, (Google) you will get flooded by load of different way to get the end result. This is great in a sense as you know there are thousands of people with different answers, but then that is where the problem is at. There are so many single responses to how you can get the users IP Address in C#.NET, but not one that shows you everything. Therefore I will present to you below different methods to get the users IP and how I have implemented it in a project.
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