Author: Rene van Osnabrugge
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Knowledge Driven Culture
In my previous blogpost about building an Engineering Culture I briefly touched upon the pillar “Knowledge Driven”. This pillar is really about culture. About behaviour and about mindset. You can only have a knowledge driven culture if people are willing to share knowledge, and if people are open to receive…
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Remove the [External] Tag in Outlook
I am an outlook user. A heavy outlook user. And there is something that is bothering me. The [External Tag in front of every message I get from an external email address (which is almost all my email) Don’t get me wrong. I understand it. There is so much phishing…
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Aligned Autonomy in Practice
In my previous blog post I talked about Engineering Culture and how important it is to embrace the fact that you need to behave like a software company. In this blog post I want to dive a little bit deeper in to an aspect of the pillar “Empowering Operating Model”.…
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Building an Engineering Culture
In 2011, Marc Andreesen made an often quoted statement “Software Is Eating the World”. Now, about 11 years later I think we can all agree on the fact that this is true and every company has become a software company. Ok ok ok, I agree, there are some exceptions. The…
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Embrace chaos to achieve stability
Date: 29 april 2022/25 may 2022Location: Porto, Portugal/Antwerp, Belgium, Utrecht, OnlineEvent: NDC Porto/Techorama Belgium / Techorama NL , AllDayDevOpsDuration: 60 minutes AbstractWhat do you do in case of a cyber attack? And a natural disaster? The absence of a person? Or, more concrete. What happens if the network is down,…
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Using the GitHub Container Registry with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Last week I wanted to try the GitHub container registry as an alternative for Azure Container Registry. Since many things are moving towards GitHub this seemed a good idea. The plan I wanted to execute was as follows:* Build a Docker Container with GitHub Actions* Push a Docker Container to…
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Corona gives us the opportunity to teach our kids (and schools) to learn and adapt
Just like almost any other blog writer, I also want to divert a little bit from my normal topics to write about this pandemic that hits us all. COVID-19 or Corona. Just like almost every other country in the world, my family and I are also bound to our house.…
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Creating an Azure Container Registry Service Connection in Azure DevOps with your own ServicePrincipal
A while ago, I blogged about creating an Azure Container Registry Service Connection in Azure DevOps, using the UI. In short, when you don’t have direct permission on the Azure subscription, the UI in Azure DevOps blocks you from creating a service connection, because there is no manual way of…
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Different variables for different branches in your Azure DevOps Pipeline
Yesterday I needed to create a pipeline to publish a zip file to a storage account on Azure. The zip file is used to publish some content to a website. I use the Azure DevOps wiki to write the content. A development branch, that contains the working version, and the…
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Pushing to an Azure Container Registry from Azure DevOps
Azure DevOps is full of great wizards and helpers to make life of the developers easy. One of them is setting up a service connection to an Azure Container Registry. When you go to the Service Connections of your Azure DevOps project and create a new Docker Registry Connection, it…
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Growing your DevOps Mindset @ Techorama Belgium
Tuesday 22 May, I did a talk on Techorama Belgium on Growing your DevOps Mindset. The session: Practicing DevOps successfully requires knowledge of hard skill areas such as continuous delivery and automated testing. But even if you have all these tools in place, you are not necessarily successful. And why…
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Road To ALM – Episode 3 Local Credential Scanning
In this episode I’ll show how you can use the CredScan build task to scan multiple repositories at the same time. By running locally on your PC or by using the same mechanism to create a schedule Continuous Assurance Job.
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Road To ALM – Episode 2 Credential Scanning in the pipeline
In this episode I talk about Credential Scanning in the pipeline. By using the buildtasks that are available on the website http://secdevtools.azurewebsites.net/ you can use the new Microsoft Credential Scanner to find secrets, password, certificates, SAS tokens and PAT’s before they end up in your master branch. I will show…
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Road To ALM YouTube Channel
It’s 2019 and I wanted to start something new. So I started a Road To ALM YouTube channel as an addition to this blog. In this channel I will create short, compact videos that cover a subject that interests me. Probably something in the DevOps space. But hey, why write…
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Distribute your blessed ARM templates with Universal Packages in Azure DevOps
There is a fine-grained balance between full autonomy of a team and arranging things on a more central level. One of the things I talk about, when I talk about shifting to Rugged DevOps, is the use of blessed libraries, scripts and templates. As an example, if all your teams write…
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Where to start with DevOps Metrics?
Now that more and more teams and organizations are moving towards a DevOps way of working, I get asked the question “What should we measure?” a lot. To be very honest, I find this a very hard question. The main reason is that metrics are always a point of discussion…
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Growing your DevOps Mindset
Practicing DevOps successfully requires knowledge on hard skill areas such as continuous delivery and automated testing. But the most important part is creating a culture where people show courage, work on teambuilding, practice DevOps leadership and have a continuous improvement mindset. Developing these soft skills is hard. One of the…
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VSTS Rest API – Hard to find methods
This post does not have a lot of text, only an introduction. I use the VSTS Rest API quite a lot and the documentation is great, but not everything is documented or hard to find. In this post, I list some snippets that you can use to get even more…
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