I have just release a new Azure DevOps Pipelines extension to update a page in a Git based WIKI. It has been tested again Azure DevOps WIKI – running as the build agent (so the same Team Project) Azure DevOps WIKI – using provided credentials (so any Team Project) GitHub – using provided credentials It takes a string (markdown) input and writes it to a new page, or updates it if it already exists....
Whilst listening to a recent Radio TFS it was mentioned that TFS Aggregator uses the C# SOAP based Azure DevOps APIs; hence needed a major re-write as these APIs are being deprecated. Did you know that there was a REST API alternative to TFS Aggregator? My Azure DevOps Services & Server Alerts DSL is out there, and has been for a while, but I don’t think used by many people. It aims to do the same as TFS Aggregator, but is based around Python scripting....
There is a general move in Azure DevOps Pipelines to using YAML, as opposed to the designer, to define your pipelines. This is particularly enforced when using them via the new GitHub Marketplace Azure Pipelines method where YAML appears to be the only option. This has shown up a hole in my Pipeline Tasks documentation, I had nothing on YAML! So I have added a YAML usage page for each set of tasks in each of my extensions e....
When I started creating OSS extensions for Azure DevOps Pipelines (starting on TFSPreview, then VSO, then VSTS and now named Azure DevOps) I made the mistake of putting all my extensions in a single GitHub repo. I thought this would make life easier, I was wrong, it should have been a repo per extension. I have considered splitting the GitHub repo, but as a number of people have forked it, over 100 at the last count, I did not want to start a chain of chaos for loads of people....
There are still a few spaces left at the Yorkshire Global DevOps BootCamp Venue hosted at Black Marble Come and learn about all things cool in DevOps, including Video keynote by Microsoft Local keynote: Breaking down the Monolith Hackathon/HandsOn DevOps challenges. The hands-on part with be based on a common application where we try to solve as many challenges as possible, including ideas like How to containerize an existing application How to add telemetry (app insights) to the application and gather hypothesis information How to use telemetry to monitor availability How to use feature toggles to move application into production without disrupting end users How to use release gates How to make DB schema changes Use Blue Green Deployments And there is free lunch too!...