Introduction 🤖 In this blog, I’ll detail how you can integrate GitHub Dependabot with Azure DevOps at no cost, ensuring you can proactively monitor vulnerabilities in your project dependencies and keep them up-to-date in your .NET projects! For those unaware, Dependabot is a bot designed to help developers keep their software dependencies up-to-date by scanning …
What is APIOps? APIOps is the process of applying DevOps to the Azure API Management (APIM) service. By applying this concept to APIM, you can bring your APIs into version control, and most of the operations that were once done in the Azure Portal can now be achieved through code using CI/CD pipelines with APIOps. The benefits of this method of working …
Introduction – continuous deployment with Azure Bicep Continuous deployment with Azure Bicep using Azure DevOps provides a streamlined approach to deploying your resources. This method leverages Infrastructure as Code, harnessing the power of Azure DevOps tools such as source control, Azure Pipelines, and Azure Artifacts, all while maintaining environment control and auditing. In this article, …
Introduction – Private Azure DevOps agent If you’re using Azure DevOps as your source control and deployment tooling, you may need to perform CI/CD to Azure resources that have no public access and are on private endpoints. This can pose a particular challenge, as unlike GitHub private runners, which can natively run within the private …
Introduction I’ve been dabbling into the world of Pester as of late to beef some unit tests with Azure Bicep modules. I thought it would be great if I can enhance the continuous integration pipeline in Azure DevOps for my Azure Bicep repository. With this, I thought I’d share this solution I came up with …
Introduction The GitHub Actions Certification is a newly available cert, as of January 2024 from GitHub. It’s designed to test your proficiency in workflows: from CI/CD, customisations, efficiency, task automation and more. I took and passed the GitHub Actions exam on 26th Jan 2024 and thought I’d detail my experience and learning material that helped …
Introduction Bicep test framework is still in early developmental phase being an experimental feature. It was first presented by Bicep team on the August community call and peaked the interest from the community, myself included. The goal of the test framework is a focus on client-side tests without the need to send off to ARM, …
Intro When you enable Access Restrictions onto your Azure App Services (such as an Azure Function or Web App) you cut off any inbound traffic from the internet. This can pose an extra challenge when needing to deploy code via pipelines as you now have no inbound public access to the SCM (source control manager …