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Different variables for different branches in your Azure DevOps Pipeline
December 20, 2019 
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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 master branch that contains the […]
Continue reading Pushing to an Azure Container Registry from Azure DevOps
September 23, 2019 Comments Off on 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 gives you a nice dialog […]
Continue reading Growing your DevOps Mindset @ Techorama Belgium
May 23, 2019 Comments Off on 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 is that? In most cases, […]
Continue reading Road To ALM – Episode 3 Local Credential Scanning
January 21, 2019 Comments Off on 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.
Continue reading Road To ALM – Episode 2 Credential Scanning in the pipeline
January 18, 2019 Comments Off on 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 how to get the task […]
Continue reading Road To ALM YouTube Channel
January 18, 2019 2 Comments
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 if you can run the […]
Continue reading Distribute your blessed ARM templates with Universal Packages in Azure DevOps
October 11, 2018 1 Comment
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 their own logging library, you […]
Continue reading Where to start with DevOps Metrics?
September 5, 2018 1 Comment
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 and a trigger for behavior […]
Continue reading Growing your DevOps Mindset
August 29, 2018 Comments Off on 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 reasons for that is that […]
Continue readingContact me @ Xpirit
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I speak at Techorama Netherlands
- MIND MATTERS: THE IMPORTANCE OF CULTIVATING A DEVOPS MINDSET
- Knowledge Driven Culture
- Remove the [External] Tag in Outlook
- Aligned Autonomy in Practice
- Building an Engineering Culture
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Using Personal Access Tokens to access Visual Studio Online
- Changing the product backlog in TFS 2012
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Use Visual Studio as your Diff and Merging Tool for local files
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Using Custom Reports in TFS: Part 3 – How to set up my reporting environment and structure
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TFS as perfect tool for Scrum (Part 5) – Sprint Review and Retrospective
The Road to ALM 