Last month GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps (GHAZDO) was released at the Build conference . GHAZDO is the implementation of GitHub Advanced Security on the Azure DevOps platform. On GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) is already around for quite a while, but on Azure DevOps it is still in it’s infancy. Together with my colleague […]
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Azure DevOps Branch Policy does not trigger on push
June 21, 2023 
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Today I was working on a Git Repo in Azure DevOps that is used for a training that I am currently building. together with my colleague Randy. One of the things we want is to set a branch policy on the main branch so that a Pull Request build is fired when we check in. […]
Continue readingKnowledge Driven Culture
February 1, 2023 Comments Off on 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 it. In many companies there […]
Continue readingRemove the [External] Tag in Outlook
January 20, 2023 Comments Off on 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 and spoofing going on that […]
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January 19, 2023 Comments Off on 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”. When it comes to the […]
Continue reading Creating an Azure Container Registry Service Connection in Azure DevOps with your own ServicePrincipal
February 26, 2020 Comments Off on 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 doing that. My previous post […]
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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 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 […]
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