A part of my job as a software consultant is to analyze existing software to find room for improvement to make the software better or to avoid these mistakes if the software is rewritten soon. The ...
Improve Azure DevOps YAML Pipelines with Templates
YAML pipelines can get quite long and unclear over time. In programming, developers use several files to separate logic to make the code easier to understand. The same is possible using templates i...
Deploy to Azure Kubernetes Service using Azure DevOps YAML Pipelines
Microservices are becoming more and more popular these days. These microservices run most of the time in Kubernetes. A goal we want to achieve with microservices is a quick and reliable deployment....
Approvals for YAML Pipelines in Azure DevOps
DevOps is all about automation and making the process faster and more reliable. Sometimes a human must check a change or feature before it is deployed. This could be someone from QA or even marketi...
Publish NuGet Packages to Nuget.org using Azure DevOps Pipelines
In my last posts, I published my NuGet package to a private NuGet feed. This is a good solution if you want to use your NuGet packages only internally. If you want to share them, you need a public ...
Microservice Series - From Zero to Hero
I am working as a consultant and software architect on different projects that focus on microservices, DevOps, and Kubernetes. Many of my consulting jobs consist of explaining microservices, why th...
Restore NuGet Packages from a Private Feed when building Docker Containers
In my last posts, I created a private NuGet feed and automatically uploaded a NuGet package with my Azure DevOps pipeline. Using Visual Studio to restore the NuGet package from the private feed wor...
Publish to an Internal NuGet Feed in Azure DevOps
In my last posts, I showed how to create NuGet packages in Azure DevOps pipelines. To easily distribute them, you have to publish these NuGet packages to a NuGet feed. This can be done by using nug...
Create NuGet Packages in Azure DevOps Pipelines
I think the most important rule of a microservice is that it has to be deployed independently. When your project or company grows, it is very likely that you want to share code between projects or ...
Automatically Version Docker Containers in Azure DevOps CI
Most examples of building Docker containers just use the latest tag to deploy or Docker images. This is simple but shouldn’t be done in a production environment. Today, I will show how to add sema...