Articles tagged with azure-devops
Fixing empty Closed Date fields in work items (Part 2)
Now that we know what the issue is, how do we resolve it?
Azure DevOps Pipeline Blueprints - Open Source Software Sync 20250613
Latest version and with small portfolio update.
Continuous Integration and Delivery Pipelines Cookbook - Kindle Friendly
Our cookbook is now also available as a Kindle eBook, expanding our self-publishing journey.
Continuous Integration and Delivery Pipelines Cookbook
We are pleased to announce the self-publication of our cookbook.
Azure DevOps Notifications and email-enabled AD Groups
Understanding email-enabled Active Directory (AD) groups and Azure DevOps (AzDO) notifications.
Azure DevOps Pipeline Blueprints - Open Source Software Sync 20250207
Latest version and versioning of v2.1.0 templates.
Azure DevOps Pipeline Blueprints - Exploring the Continuous Delivery (CD) templates
Drilling Deeper: A Closer Look at the Blueprint Continuous Delivery (CD) Templates.
Azure DevOps Pipeline Blueprints - Exploring the QA Scan templates
Drilling Deeper: A Closer Look at the Blueprint Quality Assurance (QA) Scan Templates.
Azure DevOps Pipeline Blueprints - Exploring the info-version.yml template
Drilling Deeper: A Closer Look at the Blueprint info-version.yml Template.
Azure DevOps Pipeline Blueprints - Exploring the git-tools-git-version.yml template
Drilling Deeper: A Closer Look at the Blueprint git-tools-git-version.yml Template.
Azure DevOps Pipeline Blueprints - Exploring the start template
Drilling Deeper: A Closer Look at the Blueprint Start Template.
Azure DevOps Pipeline Blueprints - Open Source Software Sync 20250105
Refresh the toolbox and templates with 2024 enhancements.
Journal 8 - What is the value?
The real question is not about the tech-cool factor or simplicity; it is all about uncovering the true value.
Journal 7 - Embracing a New Mindset for Empowerment!
Exploring innovative automation strategies to empower engineers with the right tools and support, exactly when they need them.
Why is the Closed Date field empty in my work items?
More importantly, what is the issue and how do we resolve it?
Rotting Pull Requests - Detection And Actioning
Explore the root cause of un-actioned pull-requests, how to detect and remedy (Part 1).
Journal 6 - Empowerment through automation and artificial intelligence
Reshaping the way we work, creating new opportunities to empower engineers by reducing repetitive tasks, enhancing productivity, and enabling focus on high-value activities.
Agile Planning with Azure DevOps
Recalling the recent agile planning session hosted by common engineering during the +1 innovation and planning iteration.
Azure DevOps Pipeline Blueprints - Open Source Software Sync 20241019
Refactor the building code calls.
Azure DevOps Pipeline Blueprints - Open Source Software Sync 20240816
Improving the configuration file user experience.
Automate Azure DevOps work item state transitions like a Pro
Maintain your backlog by changing the status of work items according to the status of their subitems.
Exploring the future Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) flow
Looking for Insights and Feedback from other pioneers of continuous SDLC improvements.
Technology Framework Monitor - Open Source Software Sync 20240510
Shake Off the Dust: Our TFM Software Spring Cleaning!
Azure DevOps Pipeline Blueprints - Open Source Software Sync 20240405
Adding a new blueprint - webapp.
Technology Framework Monitor - Open Source Software Sync 20240322
The broader our scanning efforts, the more technical debt we uncover, enabling proactive resolution.
Azure DevOps Pipeline Blueprints - Open Source Software Sync 20240322
Second update to complete the 101 simplification.
Azure DevOps Pipeline Blueprints - Open Source Software Sync 20240318
“Constantly think about how you could be doing things better.” - Elon Musk.
Back to Basics: Open Source Software (OSS)
Raising awareness of our open-source projects for knowledge sharing.
Back to Basics: Dealing with Technical Debt
Breaking Free: A Guide to Tackling Technical Debt Head-On
Cheat sheet to migrate generic v1 templates to v2
Questioning the recommended approach to upgrades and the use of generic templates.
Back to Basics: Why are we moving to v2 CI/CD Blueprints for Azure Pipelines?
Understanding why we are disabling classic Azure Pipelines and embracing YAML-based Azure Pipelines.
Back to Basics: Pull-Request (PR) Validations
Why run a validation build in your pull-request?
Back to Basics: WIP Limit
Dealing with a Kanban Board meltdown, by controlling the work in progress.
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.
DevOps Vancouver Meetup - Engineering Empowerment Session Preparations
Help us prepare our meetup session to ensure we cover what is interesting for YOU!
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.
Let us Elevate Our CI/IaC/CD Azure Pipeline Flow Together!
Streamline Your Process: Isolating the Provision and Deployment Steps for Efficiency?
Navigating Azure DevOps Complexity: Harnessing Objects to Simplify YAML Template Parameter Management
Seizing the chance to enhance and optimize our CI/CD/IaC pipelines.
Why do we care about infrastructure-as-code (IaC)?
Our vision is *aC, but to avoid boiling the ocean, we will focus on an overview on IaC today.
Water Cooler Talk - Why Azure Devops is not a silver bullet
Yes, I LOVE Azure DevOps, but it is not the answer to the universe.
Azure Boards Tips - Retain hierarchy with filter
Why does the hierarchy view [not] vanish when selecting a filter?
What keeps us awake at night - Technical Debt
Empower engineering without compromising security
Azure Boards Tips - Stop messing with our backlog!
A few useful "did you know" tips when using Azure Boards.
Azure DevOps Pipeline OSS v2.1 Flow
Two pull requests with pipeline updates for your perusal.
Azure DevOps Transient Faults
Be careful not to annoy Azure DevOps with your automated maintenance jobs!
Azure Devops simplicity to rule them all
Keep Azure DevOps setup simple and avoid a lot of pain and waste!
Pull Request empowered by engineering practices
Pull Requests (PR) enable us improve built-in quality, engineering practices, and streamline our continuous integration pipelines.
Azure Pipelines Conditional Logic
Make your YAML pipelines more versatile with conditional expressions.
Azure Boards Tips for Operations Teams
A few useful "did you know" tips when using Azure Boards for Operational-type teams.
Azure Pipelines Blueprint QA Integration
WHERE and HOW to integrate quality assurance into our OSS pipeline blueprints.
Our open-source pipeline blueprints have landed!
Lifting the hood of our consistent, standardized, and self-service based Azure Pipelines.
Built-in Quality
Ensuring that our solutions meet quality guardrails and governance from ideation to deprecation.
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.
Visualizing work item dependencies in Azure Boards
We want to plan and manage dependencies across multiple teams areas, providing awareness of the dependencies in a simple way.
Automation and the great unknown
Inadvertently restricting access to thousands of pipelines with a simple automated task group insertion.
Make your pipeline badges more compact and meaningful
Tired of cluttering your dashboards with duplicated waste?
Streamlining your pipeline using the magic of YAML-base Azure Pipelines
Teleport to the future, to optimize the YAML-based Azure Pipeline approvals.
Streamlining your pipeline approvals, without flooding DevSecOps with noise
Back to the future, to optimize the Classic Azure Pipeline approvals.
Two ways to share your toolbox with your pipelines
Let us review two strategies to share scripts and config files with your Azure (YAML) Pipelines.
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.
Gotchas when sharing variables with Azure DevOps stages and jobs
Understanding and avoiding gotchas that may keep you up at 2AM, troubleshooting YAML-based Azure Pipelines
Self-service automation - A dream turns into reality
Automate a “hello world in less than 1min”, also referred to as our “walking skeleton”.
Why we should (not) care about Pipelines!?!
Enabling engineering to continuously build, validate, and deploy secure solutions to delight our customers
Quick Reference Sheet for Pipeline Terminology
Summarising the core terminology and lifetime of our pipelines.
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.
Enable Agile, Kanban, Scrum, or SAFe with Azure DevOps
Use Azure Boards to visualise a variety of processes using the Agile process in a single Azure DevOps project.
Quick Reference Sheet for Application-type Blueprint-based Pipelines
Summarising the main points of our 2nd generation app-type blueprint-based pipelines.
Azure DevOps Experimentation - YAML Conditionals, Parameters, and Triggers
Snippets of common questions and issues from Azure Pipeline workshops and support calls. Today's snippet includes conditionals, parameters, and triggers.
How to share variables amongst Azure Pipeline agents
As per documentation, output variables can be used across stages in an Azure YAML-based pipeline. I will share a few turbulent moments we experienced while troubleshooting this feature in one of our pipeline blueprints.
Part 8: Pipelines - From CI to CD and beyond in one pipeline
Continuous Deployment is a pivotal ingredient of a healthy DevOps mindset and our ability to delight end-users with continuous value. It is the holy grail of our profession.
Quick Reference Sheet for YAML and Generic Blueprint-based Pipelines
Summarising the main points of YAML syntax, within the context of our generic blueprint-based pipelines.
Part 7: Pipelines - There is more! Simplicity and enablement, courtesy of the app-type blueprint-based YAML pipelines
Do you want to own two or seventy five dozen lines of pipeline code per application? The choice is yours!
Pipeline-as-code wrapped with Pull Requests
This post attempts to give our critics some answers and scratch the surface of the possibilities and values of our new blueprint-based pipelines.
Find the capabilities and IP addresses of an Azure DevOps agent
How to find more information on hosted Azure DevOps agents, such as capabilities and IP addresses.
Wandering down memory lane - feature flags
Use feature flags to fine-tune each release in production.
Part 6: Pipelines - Gotcha! The generic blueprint-based YAML pipeline simplicity
Neither the bootstrap nor generic templates are rocket science, and the YAML-based pipelines are as complex as you make them.
Part 5: Pipelines - Blueprints to fuel consistency and enablement
Think of blueprints and associated templates as re-usable LEGO blocks, ranging from a bag of "do it yourself" blocks, to complex and detailed kits, such as the Imperial Star Destroyer.
Part 4: Pipelines - Magic of queue time assembly
We can use the power of the new multi-stage YAML pipelines to make even our most critical security engineers smile from ear to ear.
Part 3: Pipelines - Basic building blocks as templates and sprinkling on telemetry
With the support from all people, YAML templates support our five (5) core goals and pillars of our common engineering system.
Part 2: Pipelines - Introduction, variables and why spaces matter
The new Azure DevOps YAML pipelines have been the focus of innovation, enabling engineering to treat pipelines as code.
Part 1: Pipelines - Why bother and what are our nightmares and options?
Pipelines enable engineering to continuously deliver value, map and improve their processes and workflows, promoting consistency and reliability across the organisation.
The clash of Azure DevOps Kanban fields and Shared Area Paths
Shared area paths can introduce inconsistency and confusion.
Searching for common nodes across area paths
How can we find area path with specific text in their name?
Use Active Directory Groups in your unified classic CI CD pipelines
Instead of managing permissions for users in Azure DevOps, we use Azure Active Directory groups to fine tune permissions
Use the move to team project feature with caution!
The "Move to Team Project" feature can reset your work item state and dates
Pull Request is your friend not foe!
There is a debate around the value of pull requests (PR), fueled by unfortunate misunderstandings.