This year, on June 16th, 2018, we (Marcel de Vries (Xpirit), Mathias Olausson(Solidify) and me(Xpirit)) organized the second Global DevOps Bootcamp. I did a blogpost on Global DevOps Bootcamp 2017 earlier. This year we wanted to do it again and of course we aimed to make it a bit bigger. In 2017 we had 30 […]
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In a perfect world Devs do not need Ops
April 10, 2018 
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Originally posted at: https://xpirit.com/2018/04/06/in-a-perfect-world-devs-do-not-need-ops/ Together with my colleague Geert van der Cruijsen I wrote this article on DevOps and how Ops should be changed. This is an introduction to the Open Source library we are creating on Azure Security as Code. Purpose of this library is to maintain all Azure settings in code instead of […]
Continue readingSecure or Compliant? That is the question!
January 31, 2018 Comments Off on Secure or Compliant? That is the question!
Compliance means conforming to a rule, such as a specification, policy, standard or law. Regulatory compliance describes the goal that organizations aspire to achieve in their efforts to ensure that they are aware of and take steps to comply with relevant laws, polices, and regulations. (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_compliance) Within many organizations, compliance is a commonly used […]
Continue reading Setting up Sonatype Nexus 3 as your Windows Docker Container Registry
November 22, 2017 Comments Off on Setting up Sonatype Nexus 3 as your Windows Docker Container Registry
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 […]
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 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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Corona gives us the opportunity to teach our kids (and schools) to learn and adapt
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Creating an Azure Container Registry Service Connection in Azure DevOps with your own ServicePrincipal
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Automatically provision a Azure SQL DB with a Managed Service Identity (MSI)
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IT4IT DevOps Manifesto
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Different variables for different branches in your Azure DevOps Pipeline
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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
