If you need to migrate Azure DevOps onprem to our cloud instance, or if you need to migrate a third party azure devops cloud instance to our cloud instance, you should try to use the “Azure DevOps Migrations Tools from NKDAgility”. …

Microsoft released new possibilities to connect to Azure DevOps via ServicePrincipals from Azure in March 2023. This is an alternative connection method to the well known PATs. Those where designed to give personal access to Azure DevOps, but where often used by “ServiceAccounts” to accomplish this. Microsofts Blog We are…

Hey guys, maybe you also want to create git tags for your node based applications during your CI/CD pipeline. First of all keep your package.json file updated and especially the version property. This means increment it before every release of your application. Then in your pipeline simply add: steps: - checkout: self persistCredentials: "true" ... - pwsh: | $version = Get-Content ./package.json | ConvertFrom-Json & git tag "v$($version.version)" & git push origin --tags

My corporate decided that people should have 2 accounts one account for their personal doings and one with admin grants, but without internet access. Because of this I have to create an offline installation image for my VisualStudio 2022 instance and install this local version as an administrator. Download the latest installer “vs_professional.exe” from the docs You can…

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…