Over the past few days, I designed and implemented a robust CI/CD pipeline from scratch, tackling the challenges of: One key challenge was handling private NPM package authentication during Docker builds without exposing sensitive tokens. After multiple iterations, I designed a scalable approach using Azure DevOps Pipelines, Azure Key Vault for secrets management, and dynamically… READ MORE
Shifting FinOps left Not too long ago, I discovered an open source project on GitHub called InfraCost. It aims to help cloud teams shift left FinOps by helping provide Terraform Azure cost estimations, into Pull Request comments within GitHub/Azure DevOps, including a fancy VS Code extension. And whilst I was excited to try it out, it… READ MORE
Migrating from Azure DevOps Pipelines to GitHub Actions can be a challenging task, especially if you have a large project with complex build definitions. However, the process can be simplified with the help of the GitHub CLI Migration Extension. In this blog post, we will go through the steps involved in using this extension to… READ MORE
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… READ MORE
The “how” isn’t important here (you’d need to buy me a drink to get it out of me!) – but what you need to know is this: Late last year, I was faced with a situation where one of my customers attempted to do a Terraform deployment to their Production environment, only to find the… READ MORE
How To Implement DevOps Culture in Power Platform Solutions Learn how you can implement DevOps Culture in Power Platform Solutions by watching this short ‘How-To’ video! This short ‘How-To’ video with Douglas Romao, MVP, Fellowmind, Denmark, will showcase the Power Platform, including its components like Power Apps and Power Automate, and how they can be… READ MORE
When I published this blog post about Power Automate Deployment (manual), the great – Bill Blancett gave suggestions regarding the solution’s import setting file that we can use if we want to import the solution using CI/CD or using Power Platform Tools CLI (you need to make sure you install this on your machine): TL/DR from… READ MORE
Want to transform your company into an Agile powerhouse? To do that you’ll need to start with a solid foundation built on the ideas and concepts of a DevOps culture. Once you have that foundation established you can look to technical solutions to convert your company’s culture and technology. This article introduces DevOps concepts and… READ MORE
I stored the JSON variables as part of the pipelines folder. Issues faced The relative path to the JSON file does not work to be passed to the app settings, the absolute JSON path is required. Token replacement in the JSON file as it contained variables from the variables group. Added a new task to… READ MORE
Introduction Over the past few weeks I have been helping a couple of my customers take their first steps into the world of DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform. It’s safe to say there is an array of fantastic content out there already in the community and from the vendors themselves, which have certainly been useful… READ MORE
