Using the GitHub Container Registry with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Last week I wanted to try the GitHub container registry as an alternative for Azure Container Registry. Since many things are moving towards GitHub this seemed a good idea. The plan I wanted to execute was as follows:* Build a Docker Container with GitHub Actions* Push a Docker Container to the GitHub Container Registry* Pull […]

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Corona gives us the opportunity to teach our kids (and schools) to learn and adapt

Just like almost any other blog writer, I also want to divert a little bit from my normal topics to write about this pandemic that hits us all. COVID-19 or Corona. Just like almost every other country in the world, my family and I are also bound to our house. That means, working from home, […]

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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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IT4IT DevOps Manifesto

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Different variables for different branches in your Azure DevOps Pipeline

Yesterday I needed to create a pipeline to publish a zip file to a storage account on Azure. The zip file is used to publish some content to a website. I use the Azure DevOps wiki to write the content. A development branch, that contains the working version, and the master branch that contains the […]

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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 […]

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Growing your DevOps Mindset @ Techorama Belgium

Tuesday 22 May,  I did a talk on Techorama Belgium on Growing your DevOps Mindset. The session: Practicing DevOps successfully requires knowledge of hard skill areas such as continuous delivery and automated testing. But even if you have all these tools in place, you are not necessarily successful. And why is that? In most cases, […]

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Road To ALM – Episode 3 Local Credential Scanning

In this episode I’ll show how you can use the CredScan build task to scan multiple repositories at the same time. By running locally on your PC or by using the same mechanism to create a schedule Continuous Assurance Job.

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Road To ALM – Episode 2 Credential Scanning in the pipeline

In this episode I talk about Credential Scanning in the pipeline. By using the buildtasks that are available on the website http://secdevtools.azurewebsites.net/ you can use the new Microsoft Credential Scanner to find secrets, password, certificates, SAS tokens and PAT’s before they end up in your master branch. I will show how to get the task […]

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