Microsoft Azure Pipelines

Azure pipelines support the CI/CD (Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment), the fully automated Continuous Delivery process. Agents, either hosted by Microsoft, or self-hosted on the client’s infrastructure, execute the yaml scripts. Steps The smallest unit of work in the Azure Pipeline. Each step is one action in a job. A Step can be a Script or …

DevOps Workflow

DevOps is the combination of two areas of information technology: Development and Operations. DevOps engineers work very closely with software developers and operation engineers to fully automate the creation and configuration of the cloud infrastructure and the build, testing and deployment of the applications. The best DevOps engineers come from software development and have a …

Microsoft Azure CLI

Use the terminal to interact with the Azure Cloud Installation Latest instructions at it from bit.ly/AzureCLI At the time of writing to install the CLI on Windows, execute the command in PowerShell Restart PowerShell to refresh the updated “path” value and found the newly installed tool: az Extensions Azure DevOps Extension – Adds DevOps specific …

Microsoft Azure authentication types

Authentication types To log into Azure DevOps services use the Microsoft Entra ID – formerly known as Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). The Microsoft Identity platform provides two primary authentication patterns for Azure DevOps access. User delegation (OAuth) We will use this for the Azure DevOps CLI. Created for user facing tools, like web and desktop applications, …

Microsoft Azure DevOps tools

The Azure DevOps tools provide access to the Azure environment to create, manage and monitor Azure Cloud resources Azure DevOps Web Portal All DevOps operations are available through the Azure DevOps Web Portal. To access it navigate to dev.azure.com Azure Command Line Interface Use the terminal to interact with the Azure Cloud. See Microsoft Azure …

Configuring ChatGPT for Software Development

ChatGPT Enterprise promises not to use chat history for model training, so the enterprise data stays within the environment. To set up ChatGPT for software development On macOS Install the Codex CLI command line tool with Homebrew or with npm On Windows See the Windows setup guide at Running Codex on Windows Launch Codex CLI …

Practical Travel Tips for Europe

These tips are for amateurs, who don’t travel regularly. When we started this journey, we had some ideas on what to expect, but there are some details, I wish knew before. If you are a seasoned traveller, you will find some obvious observations, so feel free to skip them. If one person will find it …

Open and Save panel is unresponsive in macOS

First, I noticed, that Visual Studio is very slow: Later, I noticed, that the open and save panel in every application is very slow or unresponsive. When I quit OneDrive, all problems disappeared. Solution: Restart OneDrive, or if that does not help, quit OneDrive at least for the time you want to use the open …