I recently needed to set KEDA scaling rules on an Azure Container app that used the number of messages in a Service Bus queue. There’s plenty of info out there on the internet about scaling rules, but not when it comes to Service Bus, so I’m writing up what I learned here.

For the original version of this post see Rik …

The Issue

Within one of our Azure DevOps builds we today started to see the following error when running the SonarQube analysis step:

##[error][SQ] Task failed with status FAILED, Error message: Unrecoverable indexing failures: 1 errors among 1 requests. Check Elasticsearch logs for further details.

Nothing obvious …

Background

In past years, pre Covid, Black Marble hosted a venue for the Global DevOps Bootcamp, a community run in person hackathon event.

After a short hiatus, I am pleased to be able to say this event has a successor, the Global DevOps Experience which is being run on the 15th of June at many venues around the world …

Problem Space

I have recently been working on an API scoped policy within API Management, the policy ideally should not be impacted by any policies defined higher up in the hierarchy.

For reference, this means that any policies defined at the Product, Workspace, or Global level will not be inherited at the API scope …

The Issue

We have a number of projects that use the old style SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) .RPTProj project format. These projects are not supported in Visual Studio 2022 out of the box, but there is an extension in the Marketplace that adds the functionality back so you can build them in the IDE.

However, we …

Overview

In API Management, users and groups are a core aspect of the Developer Portal and are used to manage the visibility and access to respective products and their APIs.

One of the common questions that I often get asked is, “how do I appropriately govern the groups effectively so that I can ensure that the …

Problem

One of my client’s recently had a problem that a large number of Azure DevOps work items had been updated via Excel in error.

They asked if there was a means to undo these edits. Unfortunately, a feature Azure DevOps does not provide.

Solution

So, I wrote a PowerShell script to do it. The script… …

Problem Space

I have recently been adding email alerting to some Logic App Standard workflows as part of the error handling flow. In doing so I made use of an existing Office 365 Outlook Connector in the Azure Subscription; the connector is not built in for Standard Logic Apps but is rather part of the Managed Api …

Background

Programmatic connection to Azure DevOps cannot be done with your Active Directory credentials. This is because this involves a dialog being shown, and these days usually an MFA check too.

Historically, the solution to this problem was to enable Alternate Credentials, which could be passed as username and …

A History Lesson

Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) has been around since 2005, since the first release of Team Foundation Server (TFS) in 2005. In 2013, over 10 years ago, Microsoft added Git support to TFS (later renamed as Azure DevOps), Git had already been around for 8 years at that point.

10 years is a long …