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Did you know you have more than one option to set the SQL firewall settings on an Azure SQL Database?

Recently I found an IIS hosted web application that we couldn’t instrument with Application Insights.

I ran into an issue where I could not change Azure Repositories Policy settings, even while my account was in the the Project Administrator group.

After getting a message that a command I wanted to use was not available in my local installation, I needed to update an Azure CLI extension.

I wanted to try out using GitHub Actions to deploy a .NET Core web application to Azure.

Ever needed to deploy a Windows Service onto a machine with Azure DevOps?

I’ve been working on a Stryker run for a larger .NET solution (115 projects and counting) and wanted to document on the final setup in Azure DevOps.

Today I was configuring a SonarQube Analysis in Azure DevOps on a Java project.

TL;DR Stryker cannot run for an entire solution with multiple test projects (YET), so we need to help it a little and run each project by itself and then join the results.

I ran into a weird thing in .NET Core Global tools: If you try to install the tools while they are already installed on that system, .NET Core will throw an error and exit with a non-zero exit code.

Recently I was at a customer where they where testing running test mutation with Stryker.

I wanted to run .NET Core tools in Azure DevOps and ran into some installation issues.

Last week I was testing some .NET tooling and wanted to install a tool locally instead of globally.

Recently I had to refresh a Let’s Encrypt certificate for an Azure App Service after the first certificate had expired.

Recently I wanted to build and run a .NET core console application in Azure DevOps and found out you cannot do that with the default .NET core tasks. unsplash-logoPhoto by Sam Truong Dan The default tasks in Azure DevOps and tutorials are more geared towa…

I’ve been developing software for over 16 years now and every now and then I come across someone who thinks developers do something magic that they can never learn to do.

As a consultant, I get to work at a lot of different settings and environments.

I found myself searching the internet again on how to use the Azure CLI from PowerShell so that I can use it in Azure Pipelines to create new Azure resources.

Today I noticed that my syntax highlighting was not working on this blog.

Read more on why I created short video’s wherein I explain some of the DevOps principles and practices here.

I have started recording a series of video’s explaining some of the principles and sayings I use when I talk about DevOps.

Last month we got the opportunity to organize the Global DevOps Bootcamp (link) and it was a blast!

On the 15th of June we got the opportunity to organize the Global DevOps Bootcamp edition of 2019 (see link) and we had a blast!

When I am working on something, usually software, I know from experience that a simple tool to test something out (e.g. a POC, Proof of Concept), can be in production in no-time.

Last weekend we got the opportunity to organize the Global DevOps Bootcamp (link) and it was a blast!

As noted in a previous post, you can host a SonarQube on an Azure App Service, thanks to Nathan Vanderby, a Premier Field Engineer from Microsoft.

I recently found that I had a web service plan running for my Machine Learning Studio (MLS) workspace in Azure.

I ran into an issue with a new Azure Function I created: when I tried to run it, I got an error message about a RunResolvePublishAssemblies setting.

I wanted to trigger an Azure Function based on changes in the Azure Subscription(s) we where monitoring.

After installing Docker for Windows (recently renamed to Docker Desktop) I could not get the basic command docker run hello-world working.

I was testing with our Azure Function and had set the cron expression on the timer trigger to "0 0 */2 * * *", based on the example from the Microsoft documentation.

Last week I noticed our Azure Function wasn’t running anymore and I got a pop-up in the Azure Portal indicating that we reached the limit on our open connections.

During installation and setting up a SonarQube server for usage in an Azure DevOps Build I found some things that I didn’t remember from previous installation and wanted to log that in this post, so the next time I have somewhere to find these things in o…

Microsoft announced today that they have a ‘new’ product: Azure DevOps!

While working to setup an export from Activity Log to an Event Hub I got no response on a save action.

Global DevOps BootCamp In June 2018 I was part of the team behind Global DevOps BootCamp (or GDBC in short).

I am using the Azure Fluent SDK to retrieve information about the Azure setup and I wanted to retrieve the AppSettings from an App Service (or function app, or logic app).

Recently I got a customer request to help them with provisioning a SonarQube server hosted in Azure.

Today I was listening to RadioTFS episode 163 on my commute, with guests Wouter de Kort and Henry Been.

Recently I wanted to demo an example of how you can rollout Chocolatey packages via your own choco server.

Global DevOps Bootcamp On the 16th of June 2018, Xpirit and Solidify organized a global event around the topic of DevOps and improving your release cadence.

Note This is part 3 in a series of posts about DevOps and the role of telemetry in it.

Note This is part 2 in a series of posts about DevOps and the role of telemetry in it.

Update process templates Recently I had a customer request to update their process definition in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS).

I like to make work and performance visible for teams by giving them the necessary information to gauge the performance of a system, both on a daily basis as well as over time.

I wanted to include at least some more information in the index page of my blog instead of just the publish date and title, so I searched around for some help to include an excerpt in Jekyll and found some help on this blog.

Trying out Jekyll on top of GitHub pages as a new blogging platform.

After searching for the third time on how to do this, I thought it would be time to write about this here 😬.

I wanted to use https in my dotnetcore application (v. 1.0.0-rc2-final) and had to dig around the web quite a bit to find the most recent and working method to accomplish this.

Some links to important Visual Studio extensions for later reference: Open Bin folder Visual Studio Extension: Visual Studio Gallery Wakatime: wakatime.com SlowCheetah Visual Studio Gallery SonarLint sonarlint.org T4MVC github.io