Do you need to deploy to private VNets using GitHub Actions, but don’t want to have to keep self-hosted runners running all the time? In this post I show you how you can use Ephemeral Runners to create on-demand self-hosted runners.
Newly released Reusable Workflows allows you to reuse workflows in your GitHub workflows. While this still has some limitations, it’s still better than copy/paste!
If you’re managing backlogs in Azure Boards but using GitHub Actions for CI/CD, you may have scenarios where you want to create Work Items from an Action.
Composite Actions now allow you to run other Actions, not just script steps. This is great for composability and maintainability, but there are some limitations that you should be aware of.
CodeQL is a powerful code scanning tool that can be integrated into your pipelines. In this post I show you some basics, as well as how to develop and integrate custom queries into your pipelines.
GitHub Actions can be used for Continuous Deployment (CD) - but there are some rough edges. In this post I take you through a deep dive and lift the kimono on Actions.
Generally limiting WIP is discussed in the context of work item tracking - but too much WIP has detrimental effects on branching, testing, architecture and technical debt too!
Creating private AKS clusters is a good step in hardening your Azure Kubernetes clusters. In this post I walk through the steps you’ll need to follow to enable deployment to private AKS clusters.
Little’s Law is well known, but not well understood. Daniel Vacanti has some deep insights into the assumptions that need to be made to make Little’s law “work” for you.
One of the best features of Azure DevOps is the extensive API. However, while having a REST API is great, interacting with a service at HTTP level can be frustrating. In this post, I examine the az devops cli using 10 practical examples.
