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Category Archives: DevOps
Azure Load Testing – First Impressions
On November 30 2021 Microsoft announced the public preview of the Azure Load Testing service, a successor to the deprecated Visual Studio Team Services/Azure DevOps Load Testing tool. I caught wind of this via Twitter while in the hotel bar … Continue reading
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Linux + PowerShell + AzureCLI in DevOps Pipelines
A couple of months ago I had an exchange with Donovan Brown on Twitter about using AzureCLI & PowerShell in Azure DevOps pipelines on Linux hosted agents. As is often the way I didn’t have the time to take the … Continue reading
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Using Azure DevOps to build your create-react-app packages
I’ve recently delved into the world of React and started using create-react-app, sometimes called CRA, to bootstrap up my project and build tool-chain. As you start to build more complex applications than HelloWorld or TODO.js sooner or later you’re going … Continue reading
Docker on Windows – Angular Development
I’ve been on a bit of a Docker kick lately. Mostly to help my team reduce the time it takes to get up and running on a project. The end goal here being that, where possible, we’ll have containerized development … Continue reading
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Docker on Windows – Network Issues
Recently after updating to version 17.0.3.0 I noticed some network related issues while attempting to install new npm packages and interact with Docker Hub. Attempting to search on Docker Hub would reliably fail Turns out the fix was remarkably simple, … Continue reading
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Slot switching Azure Website from VSTS
In my last post I covered off how to set up a simple release process that deploys to an Azure Website in classic mode. That process involved an explicit web deploy to each slot. What might be useful for some … Continue reading
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Minimal path to awesome–VSTS Release Management and Classic mode Azure Website
I’ve been doing a whole lot of work with Visual Studio Team Services, formerly Visual Studio Online, and making heavy us of the Release Management feature as I discussed recently on the Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 146. As this can … Continue reading
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