Overview

Deploying updates to production environments demands both speed and control. Azure App Service deployment slots, combined with Azure DevOps pipelines, offer a powerful way to manage releases, enabling teams to validate changes in a live-like environment before they go public. However, ensuring that only …

Introduction

I got asked today by a client if there was a way to automate the exporting Azure DevOps Test Plans to Excel files. They knew they could do it manually via the Azure DevOps UI, but had a lot of Test Plans to export and wanted to automate the process.

The Options

I considered a few options:

• TCM CLI - This …

Microsoft Announcement

Microsoft has just introduced something quite revolutionary into the world of integration: Agent Loop, a new capability in Azure Logic Apps that lets you build AI-powered agents directly into your workflows. On the surface, it might seem like another incremental feature. But dig a little deeper, …

There has been much talk at the Microsoft Build conference of the new agentic world, where you get AI agents to perform tasks on your behalf. This could be in your Enterprise applications, but also in the DevOps process that you use to create these new AI aware applications.

This can all seem a bit ‘in the …

The Requirements Ambiguity Paradox

With the context of software requirements, I regularly encounter an understood but often ignored scenario: the less detailed the initial requirements, the more expansive the client’s expectations become as the project progresses. It’s a phenomenon I refer to as the …

Introduction

I have recently been swapping some Azure DevOps Pipelines to GitHub Actions as part of a large GitHub Enterprise migration. The primary tool I have been using for this is GitHub Copilot in the new Agent Mode

Frankly, Copilot is like magic, it is amazing how close it gets to a valid solution. I say this …

Overview

Versioning is the unsung hero of software development—often overlooked but absolutely essential. Imagine trying to manage a project without a clear way to track changes, communicate updates, or ensure compatibility. Chaos, right? That’s where versioning steps in, providing structure and clarity.

In this post, …

Background

The Bicep existing keyword is a powerful capability that allows us to reference a resource that wasn’t deployed as part of the current Bicep file.

One of the typical use cases that I often see is where a resource is deployed as part of a module called by the parent template, the resource that was …

I have been doing some work one a Logic Apps that routes its traffic out via a vNet and accesses its underlying Storage Account via private endpoints. ‘Nothing that special in that configuration’ I hear you saying, but I did manage to confuse myself whilst testing.

After changing my configuration of the …

The Problem

I recently was debugging an Execute PowerShell Code Logic App action, so wanted to see it’s output. However, when I reviewed the run history, the output for my code action was empty.

The Cause (and Solution)

The problem turned out to be that the Logic App’s Inbound traffic configuration. You …