In advance of my upcoming Black Marble Webinar on the 18th October entitled ‘Practical DevOps in the Enterprise’, I have written a whitepaper of the same name. You can find the whitepaper on LinkedIn and register for this, and other free Black Marble webinars and in-person events, via the Black Marble website.
The Problem We run our SonarQube instance in a Docker container hosted in an Azure Web App Service. Today, with no notice, it failed. We did the obvious, just tried to restart it and the startup process failed. Looking at the Azure Web App’s Log Stream we could see the following error repeated on each restart attempt 2023-09-27T15:30:00.797Z INFO - Starting multi-container app.. 2023-09-27T15:30:01.024Z INFO - Pulling image: sonarqube:10.1-developer 2023-09-27T15:30:02.100Z INFO - 10....
The Issue If you are using Azure Scale Set based Azure DevOps Agent Pools (VMSS) to provide dynamically scalable agent pools, unlike with self hosted agent pools, there is no capabilities tab for the individual agents. My understanding is that this UX design choice was made as the capabilities of all the agents in a VMSS pool are identical, as they are the same disk image, so why show the same data multiple times....
Background I have recently been looking at getting Snipe-IT running on Azure using a Docker container. Though the documentation for this project is good, the detail for the Azure setup is a little lacking. So I thought I would document the steps and Rik Hepworth took to get it working. Notes: This is a simple configuration to get it working, it can obviously get a lot more complex with the setup of VNETs etc....
The Problem Recently had an issue on a project that had been paused for a few months. When we restarted the project we found that the SonarCloud PR analysis, running via an Azure DevOps YAML pipeline, was failing with a 404 error. The strange thing was that the same pipeline running analysis of the main trunk or the branch the PR related to worked without error. The Solution The issue was fixed by regenerating the SonarCloud PAT that was registered in the Azure DevOps project’s Service Connection....