#azuredevops

Blogged: Azure Pipelines template expressions.

Including how these can sometimes be a better option that custom conditions.

http://david.gardiner.net.au/2025/07/azure-pipeline-template-expression

#AzureDevOps

Blogged: Using custom conditions in Azure Pipelines

https://david.gardiner.net.au/2025/06/azure-pipeline-conditionals

#AzureDevOps #AzurePipelines

Just to be on record:
I honestly didn’t expect that even non-YAML code ( @nuke build – yeah, I’m talking to you...) would require just as many fucking never-ending commits.
Azure DevOps has proven me wrong. (lol)

The real pain point?
No local test run
No Run pipeline locally
Zero feedback until you PR, merge, and let it rip on main

So yeah, we’re basically testing on the main branch. In production. In 2025.
For everything else, there’s: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Also, I firmly believe that not only Carthage must be destroyed, but also:

- CI/CD with no local feedback loop
- “Works on my machine” excuses
_ YAML files that silently break on pasted tabs
- And every doc that starts with “just”

And yes — I really thought nuke build would make things better...
But after 24 hours of commits, checks, and trial-and-error, I’ve been proven otherwise (and I really wanted to make it work and local debugging is awesome — but it’s useless when the docs are a soggy mess and don’t reflect reality.)

#DevOps #AzureDevOps #YAML #NukeBuild #CI #CICD #MainBranchDrivenDevelopment
#WorksOnMyMachine #AgileStruggles #ModernDev #CarthagoDelendaEst #DevHumor
#BuildFail #DebuggingHell #LocalIsNotProd #SoftwareEngineering #DotNet #DevLife

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R800 000 to R840 000 Annually CTC

#ScrumMaster #SAFe #AzureDevOps #Miro #Figma #Agile #SprintPlanning #Backlog #DoR #DoD #ChangeManagement #TeamCoaching #Burndown

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If you implement a dropdown menu, make ONE and shove everything into it. No one will remember how you decided to split it between four dropdowns.

Thanks Joe for the video

#AzureDevOps #Microsoft #Dropdown

There's a new AzureTestPlan task you can use to run automated tests (include Jest) from Azure DevOps Test Plans.

I've not made a lot of use of Test Plans. Curious to see if this makes them more useful.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/introducing-java-javascript-and-python-support-in-azuredevops-test-plans/?WT.mc_id=DOP-MVP-5001655

https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/devops/pipelines/tasks/reference/azure-test-plan-v0?view=azure-pipelines&WT.mc_id=DOP-MVP-5001655

#AzureDevOps

Introducing Java, JS and Python support in Test Plans in Azure DevOps.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/introducing-java-javascript-and-python-support-in-azuredevops-test-plans/

#devops #testing #javascript #java #python #azuredevops #cloud

via @dotnet : Unlock new possibilities for AI Evaluations for .NET

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#AI #DotNet #MicrosoftExtensions #OpenSource #AIEvaluations #DevOps #AzureDevOps #CICD #SoftwareDevelopment #MachineLearning #AIIntegration #TechInnovation #DeveloperCommun…

It's been a long wait, but finally you can get access to both GitHub Enterprise and Azure DevOps with a single license per user.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/azure-devops-basic-usage-included-with-github-enterprise/?WT.mc_id=DOP-MVP-5001655

#GitHubEnterprise #AzureDevOps

Anyone know if Azure DevOps Artifacts feeds can have cycles in their upstream sources? (ie: feed A is an upstream of feed B and feed B is an upstream of feed A). I don't see any reason why it wouldn't be allowed (or at least I could see why it would be hard to catch the more general case of longer upstream paths)

#azdo #azureDevOps

I’m hard at work on the documentation for Packfiles’ SaaS, Warp, which automates the difficult, tedious, and error-prone process of migrating repositories from other source control systems to GitHub. Warp is already operational and it turns days of work into minutes, but it needs a “quickstart” guide, which I’m working on right now!

Here’s a quick look at some of what I’m working on.

https://www.globalnerdy.com/2025/01/14/im-working-on-the-docs-for-packfiles-saas-warp/

#SaaS #GitHub #tech #technology #AzureDevOps #ADO #migration #software #documentation

Always good to see a step taken in the right direction!

Reducing PAT usage across Azure DevOps - Azure DevOps Blog https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/reducing-pat-usage-across-azure-devops/

#AzureDevOps #Security

Things randomly used at any given time in Jeremy's Dev Workflow: - @vscode.dev - @visualstudio.bsky.social - @jetbrains.com #JetBrainsRider - @github.com - #AzureDevOps - #GitHubCopilot - #LINQPad - #PowerToys - #WSL - #DevHome - Notepad - Notepad++ What's yours? #MVPBuzz

Not interested in “Microsoft bad” conversations, and I’m aware of cloud/self-hosted tradeoffs.

*Am* interested in “we moved from #AzureDevOps to #Forgejo and here’s what’s great about it” anecdotes.

Blogged: .NET Code Coverage in Azure DevOps and SonarCloud

How to generate code coverage data that gets displayed in Azure Pipelines and SonarQube

https://david.gardiner.net.au/2024/12/sonarcloud.html

#AzureDevOps #AzurePipelines #SonarQube #CodeCoverage #dotnet

It feels like #DDDAdelaide was only a couple of weeks ago, and now I'm looking forward to attending and speaking at @dddbrisbane this Saturday!

To paraphrase HG Nelson, "Where too much DDD is barely enough"

I'll be presenting my 10 favourite tips and tricks for GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps. I hope to see you there!

#GitHubActions #AzureDevOps #AzurePipelines #ContinuousIntegration

Git isn't only for people who write code. The new native #Dataverse Git integration shows the value of automated version control.

For as long as I remember, I've wished there was a built-in version history in Dataverse. No, not the audit history for data. The changes performed on metadata. Who changed what and when?

Now, together with #AzureDevOps, we have a change log for #PowerPlatform solutions and environments. (In preview.)

More thoughts in my newsletter: https://www.perspectives.plus/p/gotta-git-with-the-times

You know you're alone when google and github give no answers at all when searching for an error message

Moving to macOS-15 for github actions/azure devops agents, is causing all sorts of trouble...

Does anyone know about this error: https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/10918#issuecomment-2462289829

#github #azuredevops #macos #dotnet

LOL #AzureDevOps doesn't supprt ed25519 based SSH keys. Who builds this stuff? #Microsoft

A particularly painful experience I once had was dealing with #flakiness in a deployment pipeline on #AzureDevOps. I had to reproduce and fix it through trial and error. Since it was based on #YAML and built-in tasks, the only way to troubleshoot was by making some modifications, queuing the pipeline, and waiting for the results. There’s simply no way to test this differently.

Beyond that, a build and #deployment #pipeline is much more than just a series of simple tasks. It evolves...