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I was recently trying to create an Azure DevOps work item when an email is received using the Power Automate ‘Create an Azure DevOps work item when email arrives with ‘Bug’ in subject’ template. The flow created without issue, and all the drop downs were correctly populated with O365 and Azure DevOps values as expected. However, when the flow ran, on receiving an email to the correct inbox, it failed with a BadGateway error....

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....

I posted a while ago about how I had automated the generation of social media posts for my static Hugo based website using Azure Logic Apps. The other place I auto-generate social media posts is from releases via my project’s Azure DevOps Pipeline builds. These use a YAML Pipeline Template that calls a Marketplace task to post to Twitter and a PowerShell task to Invoke-WebRequest to post to Mastodon. Recently the Twitter task started to fail, and given the recent changes to the Twitter API with the move to the V2 API, I decided a new solution was required....

Background When working with Azure DevOps, you may need to access the REST API if you wish to perform scripted tasks such as creating work items, or generating reports. Historically, you had to use a Personal Access Token (PAT) to do this. If you look in my repo of useful Azure DevOps PowerShell scripts you will find all the scripts make use of a function that creates an authenticated WebClient object using a passed in PAT token....

Background We use Lability to build Windows Server images for our test labs. Lability makes use of Desired State Configuration (DSC) to build the VM images. Part of this process is for Lability to download DSC modules, as ZIP files, from a NuGet feed such as PowerShell Gallery to inject into the created VM image. Historically, we have stored our own private DSC modules on an internally hosted NuGet server. However, we wanted to move these modules to a private Azure DevOps Artifacts feed....