I have been playing with the Azure DevOps OData service recently to start creating some reports. Most of my fiddling has been with the Work Item and Work Item Board Snaphot entities, but I recently read a great post focused more on Build metrics by my friend and fellow ALM MVP, Wouter de Kort. I just happened to be working with a customer that is migrating from Azure DevOps Server to Azure DevOps ...

Since Microsoft acquired GitHub, and the anti-Microsoft folks had calmed down, there have been a number of interesting developments in the GitHub ecosystem. If you’ve ever read one of my blogs or attended any events that I’ve spoken at, you’ll know that I am a raving Azure DevOps fan. I do, however, also have several repos on GitHub. As a DevOpsologist (someone who is in a constant state of ...

Series: Part 1: Intro Part 2: Traefik Basics Part 3: Canary Testing Part 4: Telemetry with Prometheus (this post) Part 5: Prometheus Operator In my previous post in this series I wrote about how I used Traefik to do traffic shifting and canary testing. I asserted that without proper telemetry, canary testing is (almost) pointless. Without some way to determine the efficacy of a canary deployment, you ...

Series: Part 1: Intro Part 2: Traefik Basics Part 3: Canary Testing (this post) Part 4: Telemetry with Prometheus Part 5: Prometheus Operator In my previous post I compared Istio, Linkerd and Traefik and motivated why I preferred Traefik for Container DevOps. I showed how I was able to spin up Traefik controllers - one for internal cluster traffic routing, one for external cluster in-bound traffic ...