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The Dynatrace Unbreakable Pipeline in VSTS and Azure? Bam!

August 3, 2018 by abel 6 Comments

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…]

Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged: #RubDevOpsOnIt, devops, Dynatrace, LOECDA, Monitor as Code, Performance Monitoring, Self Healing, Unbreakable Pipeline, vsts

Trying to write Async Release Gates for VSTS using Azure functions? Read this!

July 22, 2018 by abel 1 Comment

Recently, Donovan asked me to work with Dynatrace getting their unbreakable pipeline working with VSTS and Azure. The concept is like this:  Use Dynatrace to monitor your environments and protect your pipeline with the monitoring.  With Dynatrace you can define exactly what you want to monitor as well as the thresholds for what you are … [Read more…]

Posted in: Code Tagged: #RubDevOpsOnIt, #TheRockstar, Azure Function, devops, Exception, Release Gates, vsts

Mysterious Error Message for Kubectl Apply and Set Task in VSTS

January 27, 2018 by abel 1 Comment

I was trying to set up a VSTS CI/CD pipeline for a .net core web api running in a docker container deployed onto a Kubernetes cluster hosted in Azure AKS. I set up my release tasks like this: Running the release gave me the following error on kubectl apply 2018-01-27T00:31:50.0571239Z ##[error]error: Error loading config file … [Read more…]

Posted in: Code Tagged: cd, ci, CI/CD, Deploy to Kubernetes task, Error loading config file, kubectl, kubectl apply, kubectl set, Kubernetes, vsts

Creating Async Custom Automated Release Gates in VSTS with REST API

December 25, 2017 by abel Leave a Comment

One of the most exciting features we announced this year at Connect(); was automated release gates for VSTS releases. We’ve always had the ability to add manual approvers before and after every deployment environment. And now, we have the ability to also add automated gates using continuous monitoring. Out of the box, there are 4 … [Read more…]

Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged: ALM, Automated Release Gates, Callback, devops, Green Light, Green Lighting, Release Gates, REST API, vsts

Build and Deploy to multiple IIS servers and SQL Server using VSTS

November 28, 2017 by abel 5 Comments

The League was asked by twitter to show how to build and deploy a web app to multiple on prem IIS Servers and the schema of the database for the web app to an on prem SQL Server. Totally a fair request. All of my demos recently have been using PaaS, Azure SQL and Containers. … [Read more…]

Posted in: Code Tagged: #RubDevOpsOnIt, #TheRockstar, database, Database DevOps, devops, LOECDA, on prem, vsts

IIS Web App Deploy task fails with error code 2148734720

November 27, 2017 by abel 2 Comments

The League was recently contacted by @samsmithnz who wanted some more real world examples on setting up a CI/CD pipeline into IaaS, IIS and SQL.  Damian (@damovisa) asked me if I would be interested in recording a video about this when he swings through Redmond next week. Sure! Piece of cake! I have plenty of … [Read more…]

Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged: 2148734720, Deployment, error code, Error Code 2148734729, IaaS, IIS, IIS Web App Deploy, Release Management, TFS, vsts

Setting up a DevOps demo using VSTS and Azure (Or DevOps Nirvana with VSTS and Azure), Part 6/6

September 1, 2017 by abel 1 Comment

I am constantly asked to talk about DevOps and what DevOps means for Microsoft.  Although there are many definitions of DevOps floating out in our industry, at Microsoft, DevOps is the merging of people, process and products such that we can continually deliver value to our end users.  And clearly, VSTS/TFS and Azure are the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Code Tagged: Azure, cd, ci, continuous deliver, continuous integration, dev ops, dev ops nirvana, video, vsts, walkthrough

How do I add an Azure service connection to my VSTS account?

September 1, 2017 by abel Leave a Comment

I was creating a new demo for an upcoming event and needed a clean VSTS account,  so I started completely from scratch and created a brand new VSTS account. Next, I added my source code, created my build and started creating my release.  The first thing I wanted to do was use the Azure App … [Read more…]

Posted in: Code Tagged: Azure Service Connection, devops, LOECDA, vsts

warning MSB3884: Could not find rule set file

August 3, 2017 by abel 1 Comment

I keep forgetting to fix my style cop warnings (mainly the using statements need to be in alphabetical order and trailing whitespace at the end of the line) and @DonovanBrown finally got sick of it and told me to turn our Code Analysis warnings into errors. Simple enough.  I flip the switch, fix all my … [Read more…]

Posted in: Code Tagged: #RubDevOpsOnIt, .NET Core, Build Error, Build Warning, ci, continuous integration, Could Not Find Rule Set, devops, MSB3884, StyleCop, Visual Studio Team Services, vsts

Deploying DB’s in your CI/CD pipeline with EF Core Code First

July 31, 2017 by abel 23 Comments

Within the last week, 3 different people have asked me how to deploy their database schemas in their CI/CD pipeline using Entity Framework Core Code First.  I figured that’s a good sign to write a full blog post! When looking at DevOps best practices, my DB schema should be “checked in” to source control right … [Read more…]

Posted in: Code Tagged: Database Migrations, devops, ef, EFCore, Entity Framework, Entity Framework Core, migrations, Release Management, Team Services, Visual Studio Team Services, vsts
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