DevOps

Hi, in this post, I’ll share learning from my recent attempt to set up GitHub workflow in a way that: We wanted to achieve such a setup to allow running end-to-end tests on a single Azure environment without causing interference between workflows running simultaneously. An attempt that failed I expected it to be as easy … Read more

There is a famous option in Azure Firewall settings labeled: “Allow Azure services and resources to access this server“ According to the UI hint, “This option configures the firewall to allow connections from IP addresses allocated to any Azure service or asset, including connections from the subscriptions of other customers.” I’ve seen this option confuse … Read more

TL/DR: no. But you can make your life at least a bit easier with the right tooling. I heard this question a few times from my colleagues, so I’ll drop a short post with my answer for a wider audience 🙂 Many coders I know tend to avoid tasks where they need to change something … Read more

I’ll share my experience with an attempt to create a self-hosted Azure DevOps agent that would be identical to agents running on the Microsoft-hosted agent pool. At first, I expected that I can just google and find a VHD or VHDX files for DevOps agents. But I couldn’t find any. Why we wanted to create … Read more

A few weeks ago, we started using SonarCloud in some of our .NET projects. We wanted to evaluate if this continuous code quality tool is something that would help us in our daily work, or rather annoy developers with loads of minor issues and false alarms. We already have ReSharper licenses, so using another tool … Read more

When we work DevOps pipelines, pipeline logs often help us diagnose what went wrong or right. An easy way to make text stand out is to put some colors. For example, red text instantly directs our attention to errors in a haystack of text. Observation: Console.ForegroundColor does not work Let me just start with an … Read more