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…]

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…]

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…]

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…]

Recently, Burke Holland (@burkeholland) and Cecil Phillip (@cecilphillip) released their awesome app The Urlist, a real world serverless app (check it out, it’s cool). After reading Burke’s blog post talking about The Urlist, I came away with 3 conclusions. Very cool app and very cool use of serverless technology Burke’s blogging style is freaking awesome!!! … [Read more…]

Build was ridiculously exciting and fun (although EXHAUSTING for me as I wasn’t really supposed to be there. Was supposed to stay home and “rest”. Doesn’t that sound horrible? Resting???? While BUILD is going on????). We announced all sorts of new and cool stuff around Azure DevOps. Here’s a list of all Azure DevOps related … [Read more…]

I was recently asked how to get the code analysis and code metrics info from visual studio into an Azure Pipeline build. My first thought was, how hard could it be? Sure I’ll write a blog post about it. Lol… turns out, it was a little harder than I expected. Let’s dive in and I’ll … [Read more…]

I’ve always wondered how to get code coverage information for a .net core app in my build pipeline in Azure Pipelines. When I just use the standard .net core template from AzD, I get my test results published but I don’t get any code coverage info. I’ve always known that getting code coverage is possible. … [Read more…]

Today, Robin Kilpatrick (@rakilpatrick) asked The League (#LoECDA) a question on twitter. What is the best way to use Azure Pipelines with microservices? He even posted the question on stack overflow. This is a great question. Microservices makes it super easy to build and release only the part of your application that changed vs the … [Read more…]

Recently, Andreas Grabner (@grabnerandi on twitter) of Dynatrace demoed their Unbreakable Pipeline to me and Donovan. I immediately leaned over to Donovan and said, “Dude, that is sick. We can use Dynatrace for Azure Monitoring and we can totally build Dynatrace’s Unbreakable Pipeline using VSTS and Azure!”. Then I really started geeking out. “We can … [Read more…]