Table of Content Part 1 – Provisioning and Restoring DB’s from Backup Part 2 – Setting up DNS Part 3 – Setting up HTTPS Part 4 – Settup up dynamic backend service url’s for mobile app (1 build for all stages) (Coming soon) Setting up HTTPS All modern websites today should have HTTPS enabled. And … [Read more…]
Real World DevOps-Breaking it all down (part 2-Setting DNS)
Table of Content Part 1 – Provisioning and Restoring DB’s from Backup Part 2 – Setting up DNS Part 3 – Setting up HTTPS Part 4 – Settup up dynamic backend service url’s for mobile app (1 build for all stages) (Coming soon) Setting up DNS Setting up DNS in my pipeline was really pretty … [Read more…]
Real World DevOps–Breaking it all down (part 1–Provisioning and Restoring DB’s from backup)
Table of Content Part 1 – Provisioning and Restoring DB’s from Backup Part 2 – Setting DNS Part 3 – Setting HTTPS Part 4 – Setting Up Dynamic Backend Service Url’s in Mobile app (1 build for all stages) (coming soon) Introduction I’ve recently started giving a talk titled Real World DevOps where I show … [Read more…]
Writing My First Custom GitHub Action
Table Of Content This is a part 3 in a 3 part blog series about GitHub Actions. Part 1: Github Actions 2.0 Is Here!!! – A first look and simple walkthrough of GitHub Actions 2.0 for CI/CD Part 2: Git Actions 2.0-Let’s do something a little more involved – A deeper dive using GitHub Actions … [Read more…]
Github Actions 2.0–Let’s do something a little more involved
Table Of Content This is a part 2 in a 3 part blog series about GitHub Actions. Part 1: Github Actions 2.0 Is Here!!! – A first look and simple walkthrough of GitHub Actions 2.0 for CI/CD Part 2: Git Actions 2.0-Let’s do something a little more involved – A deeper dive using GitHub Actions … [Read more…]
GitHub Actions 2.0 IS HERE!!!!!!
Table Of Content This is a part 1 in a 3 part blog series about GitHub Actions. Part 1: Github Actions 2.0 Is Here!!! – A first look and simple walkthrough of GitHub Actions 2.0 for CI/CD Part 2: Git Actions 2.0-Let’s do something a little more involved – A deeper dive using GitHub Actions … [Read more…]
Bulk Uploading Data with bcp.exe into Azure SQL Using Azure Pipelines uploads 0 rows!!!! WTF?
A colleague of mine asked for some help building out a DevOps pipeline that would provision a web app and a database, upload default data held in csv files into the database, and then deploy the web app and subsequent schema changes. Piece Of Cake. Totally simple. How hard could this be? And what could … [Read more…]
How do you break out of ForEach-Object loop in powershell????
I was doing some simple looping using ForEach-Object and I wanted to break out of the loop after I found the value I was looking for. Naturally, I did this: Yeah, that didn’t work out so well. That broke out of the entire script I was running. Some quick googling…. don’t use break or continue … [Read more…]
PowerShell Invoke-RestMethod : The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send
As I’m writing more PowerShell (what I really mean is googling PowerShell or asking Steven @StevenMurawski), I ran into this weird thing. I was trying to hit an Azure Function that I wrote using Invoke-RestMethod and I kept getting the error: Invoke-RestMethod : The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send … [Read more…]
Infrastructure as Code using the Azure CLI (or The URList has pipelines!!!!)
Recently Burke Holland (@burkeholland) and Cecil Phillip (@cecilphillip) asked me to help devops their URList project (actually, I’m not so sure if they asked or if I just kept pestering them until they let me on the team… ). At first glance, I thought this was going to be simple. The URList only consists of … [Read more…]