Archive | September, 2016

Copy files (and run tests) on a remote machine back to the VSTS build and release agent

September 27, 2016 by Rene van Osnabrugge 1 Comment

This week I was working on a script, running in my VSTS release pipeline that executed Pester tests on a remote machine. Running Pester tests on the VSTS Build and Release Agent work fine with one the awesome tasks on the Visual Studio Marketplace, but this was about running the tests remotely AND getting the […]

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Build, Release Management, Tips & Tricks, Uncategorized
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Set up a Windows Docker host in Azure and connect from your local computer

September 19, 2016 by Rene van Osnabrugge 5 Comments

A while ago I blogged about how to set up a Docker host without Visual Studio. Now, half a year later things have changed and so have some steps. Yesterday I spun up a new Windows 2016 machine (CTP5) from the Azure gallery and (of course) it did not work as expected. Containers were already […]

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Docker, Uncategorized
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