Articles tagged with automation
Rotting Pull Requests - Detection And Actioning
Explore the root cause of un-actioned pull-requests, how to detect and remedy (Part 1).
Why Automation Needs People to Truly Thrive
While automation is an essential ingredient for DevOps, it is not a silver bullet.
Exploring the future Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) flow
Looking for Insights and Feedback from other pioneers of continuous SDLC improvements.
Why release on demand?
Exploring the deployment rings, continuous delivery and deployment, to discuss release on demand.
What are all those Warning and Information outputs from a build and why should I care if its not an error?
Reasons why is it important to pay attention to all the warning and information message generated when compiling your code.
Mastering Software Development: A Deep Dive into Trunk-Based Pull Request Workflow
How to implement a pull request workflow within the context of a trunk-based development.
Pull Request empowered by engineering practices
Pull Requests (PR) enable us improve built-in quality, engineering practices, and streamline our continuous integration pipelines.
Our open-source pipeline blueprints have landed!
Lifting the hood of our consistent, standardized, and self-service based Azure Pipelines.
Our road to OSS Blueprints - Suppress CD when pipeline runs within Pull Request
A glimpse at our OSS progress and how we use the same pipeline in and out of pull requests.
Automation and the great unknown
Inadvertently restricting access to thousands of pipelines with a simple automated task group insertion.
Automation Mayhem and Angst is normal
Doing a manual and mind-numbing task twice or more? Automate!
Do not automate anything unless you automate the tests
Automating critical systems operations without having automated tests is risky practice
Systems thinking
Switch focus from monitoring and measuring activities and outputs to measuring outcomes
Automation enables engineering to focus on value
Asking yourself why you are performing a set of manual tasks again and again? If yes, automate!
Pipelines - Meet our second-generation app-type blueprints
Our quest for continuous improvement, simplicity, consistency, enablement, and automation has taken us into a realm of Azure Pipelines that amaze even our most critical engineers.
Self-service automation - A dream turns into reality
Automate a “hello world in less than 1min”, also referred to as our “walking skeleton”.
Manage your Azure DevOps User Access Levels through automation
Quick overview how our Azure DevOps access level audits and management automation using PowerShell, REST APIs, and Richard's WIKI Updater task.
Introducing the Automation Working Group
Any system operation we can perform manually can be fully automated by writing scripts