First, here is some background about what Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) can do concerning Azure Resource Manager (ARM). As you probably know, Releases in VSTS has the capability to deploy build artifacts to subscriptions in Azure. Releases are configured … Read More
I think that one of the strengths of the build and release system in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) is the large variety of tasks that is available. If you ever want a task that does something that the default … Read More
All too often I find myself in projects where there is no efficient strategy around updating databases. Databases should be able to be migrated to the latest version without too much effort. If it’s too hard, developers will start sharing … Read More
For some time now, Community TFS Build Extensions has provided a PowerShell script for automatic versioning of assemblies during a build. This simple script served me well, until I heard about semantic versioning… To make a long story short, semantic … Read More
If you work with an open source project, or by other means want to share your project with unknown people, GitHub is a great place to store source code. It does not provide any support for building, versioning or deployment, … Read More
Have you ever felt the need to have a test environment set up on your personal computer? Or perhaps to have an automated way to set up an environment in your Continuous Integration workflow? If it’s done manually, this is … Read More
Your reality as a programmer if often that the application that you and your team are writing is going to be run on a number of test- and production environments. The normal case is that these contain computers with different … Read More
I do not program in PowerShell daily, but at least once or twice a week. Even though I am far from an expert on the matter, I would like to think of myself as a guy that knows the available … Read More
Intro In this post I will describe more advanced networking scenarios. I expect basic knowledge in virtual networks and how to configure them. If this is a new topic for you, I recommend you read part 1 first, where I break … Read More
Intro Moving to the cloud is not as simple as people think. One of those most fundamental thing is to have a functional network to run your services in. We can all click “next, next, finish” in the Azure portal. But the … Read More