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Running a Linux VSTS Agent on Azure Container Instances

August 18, 2017 by Rene van Osnabrugge 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 […]

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ALM, Azure, Build, Cross Platform, Uncategorized
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Running a Visual Studio Build vNext agent in a Docker container

August 7, 2015 by Rene van Osnabrugge 15 Comments

Update: 27-10-2016 Take a look at the official Microsoft Docker Images on DockerHub that also contain a Build agent With the introduction of the new build engine in Visual Studio Online and Team Foundation Server 2015, Microsoft also introduced real cross-platform build capabilities, The VSO-BuildAgent and tasks are both published as Open source on Github […]

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Build, Cross Platform, Docker, Tips & Tricks
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Get started with Docker on Azure for Microsoft developers and/or Linux noobs

July 31, 2015 by Rene van Osnabrugge 4 Comments

I said it earlier in a previous post. The world is changing. And especially the world of Microsoft Developers. In my post about modern tools I presented a list with tools that a developers must have in his toolbox. This list did not contain a lot of Microsoft tools. In the ALM space, and here […]

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Articles, Cross Platform, Docker

Integrating TeamCity with Team Foundation Server – Part 2

July 17, 2015 by Rene van Osnabrugge 6 Comments

In my previous post I introduced TeamCity as  an alternative build server to use in conjunction with Team Foundation Server. This post mainly focused on getting started with TeamCity and building sources coming from Team Foundation Server. At the end of this previous post I talked about the dependency of TFS artifacts with the TFS […]

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Integrating TeamCity with Team Foundation Server – Part 1

July 16, 2015 by Rene van Osnabrugge 3 Comments

In this cross-platform world, where everything integrates with … well everything, it is not unusual to come across companies that use more than one system for their Application Lifecycle Management. Team Foundation Sever offers a great solution if it comes to ALM. Work Item Management, Build Management, Release Management etc. But there is more available […]

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