Maybe you are using kubernetes and Splunk as your log aggregator. If your admin already installed splunk-connect-for-kubernetes you may want to log JSON to Splunk as it’s parsed automatically into browsable and editable objects. I am going to show you how you easily can have a local nlog.config in your…

If you are using Azure DevOps and the artifacts feature to store and share your nuget packages, you may struggle with setting it up. This is why I wanted to share how I configured my nuget.config to access the packages from the command line (and VS Code :) ) First…

Hey, a couple of weeks I struggled to mount my git access token / azure devops PAT into devcontainers, I usually use. Ususally git tokens can’t be set via environment variables directly, but with GIT_ASKPASS (docs) you can do it on your own. The environment variable askpass should point to…

Hey guys, today (21st February 2022) I’m sharing my code and thoughts of a dynamic scaling selenium 4 grids in kubernetes. When you run your selenium grid in docker on your local machine, you can easily setup a dynamic grid with docker compose More here. …

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 —…

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…