In one of our Hackathons, we had the idea to create an Alexa skill to work with Azure DevOps Boards. The idea is, that you stand in a daily standup before a none touch display and can move your items … Continue reading Alexa, open Azure DevOps
Right now, there’s no way to fail your pipeline in Azure DevOps (a.k.a Visual Studio Team Services, VSTS) when your SonarQube Quality Gate fails. To do this you have to call the SonarQube REST API from your pipeline. Here is … Continue reading Fail your Azure DevOps pipeline if SonarQube Quality Gate fails
How to get .NET Core Code Analysis to SonarQube including Code Coverage. Continue reading .NET Core, SonarQube and Code Coverage
Finding the best git branching strategy for the teams in your organisation. Continue reading Git Branching Guidance for DevOps Teams
Today I released a Visual Studio Team Service (VSTS) Plugin for FeatureSwitcher – an open source .NET project to help you with FeatureFlags. The FeatureSwitcher.VstsConfiguration allows you to store and manage FeatureFlags as WorkItems in VSTS. Getting started The package … Continue reading VSTS Plugin for FeatureSwitcher
Problem TFS or VSTS builds that contain npm tasks take a very long time on a private build agent. As you can see in the image, each npm stept takes more then 6 minutes – even a npm config. If … Continue reading Fix slow performance of npm tasks on TFS build agent
This post shoes the LaunchDarkly extension for Visual Studio Team Services and how you can use it to deploy a Azure Service Fabric application wit a feature flag. Continue reading Roll out a service fabric application with LaunchDarkly and VSTS
Configure a build and release pipeline for a Azure Service Fabric microservice application with Visual Studio Team services. Continue reading Deploy Azure Service Fabric Application with VSTS
Docker is getting more and more popular. At Connect() 2016 Microsoft announced the Azure Web Apps on Linux that support docker. To build your containers in a CI build you need a Linux build agent. Since the documentation is scattered … Continue reading Set up a Linux Build Agent for Docker
We migrated our on premise TFS to the cloud using third party tools. This was really hard and took us over a year. I’m glad I had not tried this with a customer. The good new is: Microsoft announced this … Continue reading Migrate from your on premise TFS to Visual Studio Team Services
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