Today I picked a ticket, where it said try to improve our build speed in Azure DevOps / Azure Pipelines. Well the webpack step in our pipeline took almost 4 minutes — Now it’s time to improve I thought! In the end thanks to the caching task in Azure Pipelines…

Visual Studio Codes DevContainers are great to share a development environment in your team. Unfortunally they won’t work out of the box behind a corporate proxy. In my case our corporate proxy requires a personal login and also injects an inhouse ssl certificate. How to start? Well first of all…

We are using terraform to build our cloud environments and needed to parse the output from it. How to parse a json file to variables in azure pipelines with PowerShell 7 on linux and on windows. Line 1 — Reads a JSON file into a HashTable Line 2 — Starts…

Hello I wanted to share my knowledge about administrating Sonarqube and adding / updating Azure DevOps tokens via the API of SonarQube. I’ve done this with Typescript in a kubernetes cron job now. But I’ll start with simple Postman scripts. The API of SonarQube Sonarqube offers three interesting APIs to…

What should be archived? We are looking to use the new APIs announced here to manage PATs from technical users to e.g. rotate the PATs from our selfhosted Agents in Kubernetes, or to connect 3rd party software like SonarQube. Which API can I use? In Q1 2021 Microsoft released the…

I was asked to show a pie chart in an bootstrap based application I am developing. And I had to find a solution to archive this. Unfortunally I haven’t found an out of the box solution by searching for it. Tools and Libraries I’ve choosen to archive this goal: To…