Currently I am working at Rabobank. Rabobank uses Sonatype Nexus as their artifact repository for all kinds of packages and also for Docker Containers. Since there are a few Microsoft .Net teams are moving towards Docker, the need for Docker containers arose as well. So we created a Windows Base container and tried to push […]
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Setting up Sonatype Nexus 3 as your Windows Docker Container Registry
November 22, 2017 
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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 Slides and Demos Techdays 2017
October 16, 2017 Comments Off on Slides and Demos Techdays 2017
Last week I spoke on Techdays Netherlands. I had 3 sessions Docker beyond F5 Part 1- From Laptop to Cluster Docker beyond F5 Part 2 – Deep Dive with Alex Thissen Docker from Huh? to Wow! with Jasper Gilhuis Slides and Demos I’ve put all our material on Github. I even put the demo scripts […]
Continue reading Speaking @ … Upcoming talks
September 14, 2017 Comments Off on Speaking @ … Upcoming talks
There is a busy season for me as a speaker. I’ll make a short list here: 26 September – Fujitsu Hybrid IT Event Continuous Delivery 3.0, the next step 12-13 October – Techdays Netherlands Docker beyond F5 – From Laptop to Cluster Docker beyond F5 – Deep Dive Docker – From Huh to Wow 9 […]
Continue reading COPY failed when adding files to Docker container
September 6, 2017 1 Comment
This is a blogpost for myself. Because I don’t want to make the same stupid mistake again. And hopefully It might help you as well … I was preparing a demo to build a simple Docker Container. I used Visual Studio 2017 15.3 to create a new .NET Core Project, to which I added Docker […]
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 […]
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May 23, 2017 Comments Off on Slides & Demos from Techorama 2017
Today I spoke on Techorama on Containerized Delivery with VSTS and Docker. Abstract With Continuous Delivery 3.0, I introduced the concept of rethinking what you do instead of optimizing what you have. Containers are a very important concept in this new way of thinking. Instead of delivering your application on a server, you can also store your […]
Continue reading REST call to get all tasks in your VSTS account
May 8, 2017 Comments Off on REST call to get all tasks in your VSTS account
This time, a small and simple post. I was working on a solution to get all tasks used in multiple build definitions. When you get the Build Definition with the REST API, you see a reference to the tasks by it’s GUID. But the displayname, group etc, is not displayed there. There is no documentation […]
Continue reading Using VSTS Package Management as a private Chocolatey Gallery
May 2, 2017 1 Comment
For information how to set up a private Powershell repository on VSTS check this post I just blogged about how to use VSTS Package Management as a private Powershell repository. But here was another need that I had. I wanted a private Chocolatey gallery as well. So I did some more investigation and foudn that […]
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Road To ALM – Episode 3 Local Credential Scanning
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Road To ALM – Episode 2 Credential Scanning in the pipeline
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Road To ALM YouTube Channel
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Distribute your blessed ARM templates with Universal Packages in Azure DevOps
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Where to start with DevOps Metrics?
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Using Personal Access Tokens to access Visual Studio Online
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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
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