As your codebase grows and more people contribute to it, it becomes increasingly important to maintain quality and prevent bugs from slipping into production. This is where the GitHub Pull Request Gate comes in.
A GitHub Pull Request Gate is a set of automated checks that are run on a pull request before it is merged into the main codebase. These checks can include tests, code quality checks, security scans, …
As the world of software development continues to evolve and speed-up, DevOps has become an essential practice for organizations looking to achieve faster delivery, improved collaboration, and increased efficiency. Organizations needs to address swift market changes and increased customer requirements faster than ever. In this blog post, I will discuss three key topics that I teach to my students about DevOps.
DevOps emphasizes the use of automation to increase …
This is the whole list of features and fixes planned for Azure DevOps during Q1 2023. There are lot of great things like swimlane colors, swimlane rules and support for pause/resume in manual testing. As we can see from the list below, there is quite a massive set of features and fixes. Let me highlight the three most important ones and explain why I believe they are the most significant.…
Scrum retrospective is a meeting held at the end of each sprint in the Scrum, where the development team reflects on their performance and identifies areas of improvement for the next sprint. It provides an opportunity to evaluate the team’s effectiveness, identify obstacles, and make adjustments to improve the overall efficiency and productivity of the team. The goal of the retrospective is to continuously improve the team’s performance and the …
Azdoutil is a CLI tool for Azure DevOps by Pluralsight author and MVP Benjamin Day. With azdoutil you can easily interact with Azure DevOps organization directly from your favorite command line environment. The project is published at GitHub under MIT license.
To install this tool run a simple dotnet tool install azdoutil -g command. Note that you will need to have .NET 7.0 installed, so if you …
ChatGPT has been on everyone’s lips for last two months. I personally think, that it is a great piece of technology, that will definitely has it place in the software ecosystem. To find out how good it really is, I made a test.
I am a DevOps guy by heart and I have read a lot of twitter discussions and blog posts about how the ChatGPT is going to replace …
Azure Key Vault is a great product to store secrets like connection strings and passwords. It is relatively cheap, easy to use and integr… well quite easy to integrate if you run for example .NET Core application. If you use Key Vault with .NET Framework configuration manager, or you want to access secrets at DevOps pipeline, then things are getting bit more trickier. Let me explain why.
What are Stakeholders in Azure DevOps and how you can gain all the benefits from this user type?
Stakeholders are special users in Azure DevOps. They are free tier user, who don’t have basic or any other Azure DevOps license assigned. However they have some restrictions and they cannot perform all the same things than users with basic or some any other license in Azure DevOps.
With Stakeholder user, …
Microsoft has published new CLI tool aimed for Azure developers called Azure Developer CLI. It is completely different tool than Azure CLI and its main focus is on DevOps. The CLI provides developer-friendly commands to handle key steps in your DevOps workflow. For example to setup new project, to deploy azure resources, to setup pipelines etc. It can be used through the Windows Terminal, Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio …
In my last blog post, I gave a short review of a GitHub tool called gitStream. Now it is time to deep diver and see what secrets it beholds and how it can improve our code review process.
gitStream is a free tool (for small teams) at GitHub developed by LinearB and it can be installed directly from GitHub market place. Tool can be installed for one repo, specific …