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Pushing to an Azure Container Registry from Azure DevOps
September 23, 2019 
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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 […]
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 First encounters with creating a Managed Kubernetes Cluster (AKS) on Azure
October 25, 2017 1 Comment
Yesterday Microsoft announced in this blogpost thatr the public preview for a Managed Kubernetes Cluster (AKS) is now available. I directly wanted to test this and followed the steps in the blog. They work but I ran into a few tiny errors which were easy to solve if you know where to look. First thing you […]
Continue reading Running a Linux VSTS Agent on Azure Container Instances
August 18, 2017 Comments Off on Running a Linux VSTS Agent on Azure Container Instances
About 3 weeks ago, Corey Sanders (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-azure-container-instances/) announced in his blog that Azure Container Instances is in private preview. I think that this new Azure service is very promising. In a nutshell, it is a hosted and managed Container cluster. The only thing you need to take care of is to create a container image […]
Continue reading Publish symbols to Azure File Storage with the VSTS Hosted Agent
June 14, 2017 2 Comments
A while ago I migrated a lot of builds to the Visual Studio Team Services Hosted Agents. This works great. We reduced the number of build servers and agent on-premises and can now easily scal up and down. But .. as it goes… there is always that next thing on the list. In my case […]
Continue reading Shrink the physical size of an Azure Virtual machine VHD
October 25, 2016 Comments Off on Shrink the physical size of an Azure Virtual machine VHD
At a customer I am helping to set up a pipeline to spin up a complete new environment every night. The environment consists of multiple machines. 2 of the machines are preconfigured and cannot be automated (not now at least) with ARM and DSC to create everything from code (which is of course the best […]
Continue reading Create a Windows Docker Host and connect to it without Visual Studio
December 30, 2015 6 Comments
I have been exploring Docker on Windows for a while because I think it is very promising that containers can run on the Windows platform as well. I’ve also written a few posts already about Docker but this one is all about creating a Windows Docker Host on Azure and connect to it. Why does […]
Continue reading Use Visual Studio Team Services Build to manage your Azure Resource Groups
December 22, 2015 1 Comment
If you, just like me, have a MSDN subscription you are also provided with some serious Azure Credits. Because I am a Microsoft MVP I received the MSDN Enterprise subscription, allowing me to run 130 euro worth of Azure services. Because I do a lot of demos and experiments I always have a couple of […]
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