- When access VSO you have two authentication options; either a LiveID (or an MSA using it’s newest name) or a Work Account ID (a domain account). The latter is used to provide extra security, so a domain admin can easily control who has access to a whole set of systems. It does assume you have used Azure Active …
Read More At my session at DDDNorth I mentioned that some of the settings you needed to configure in SonarQube 5.1, such as DB connection strings for SonarRunner, would not need to be made once 5.2 was release. Well it was released today. Most important changes for we are
- Server handles all DB connections
- LDAP support for user …
Read MoreUnlike most of my recent posts this one won’t have code in it. Instead I want to talk about concepts and how you should look long and hard at your templates to optimise deployment.
In my previous articles I’ve talked about how nested deployments can help apply sensible structure to your deployments. I’ve also talked …
Read More- Over the past few posts on this blog I’ve been documenting the templates I have been working on for Black Marble. In a previous sequence I showed how you can use nested deployments to keep your templates simple and still push out complex environments. The problem with those examples is that they are very fixed in what …
Read More - As you work more with Azure Resource Templates you will find that you need to pass information from one resource you have created into another. This is fine if you had the information to begin with within your variables and parameters, but what if it’s something you cannot know before deploy, such as the dynamic IP …
Read More Over the past few weeks I’ve been refactoring and improving the templates that I have been creating for Black Marble to deploy environments in Azure. This is the first post of a few talking about some of the more advanced stuff I’m now doing.
You will remember from my previous posts that within an Azure Resource …
Read MoreWithin a few days of each other I spoke about Azure Resource Templates at both DDDNorth 2015 and Integration Mondays run by the Integration User Group. I’d like to thank all of you who attended both and have been very kind in your feedback afterwards.
As promised, this post contains the useful links from my final …
Read MoreThanks to everyone who came to my session at DDDNorth on SonarQube, hope you found it useful. The links to resources for my session are
- SonarQube documentation
- Microsoft Product Team posts on Technical Debt
- ALM Rangers Guide on SonarQube (source)
- ALM Rangers Guide on SonarQube (explanatory post)
- SonarLint
And you can …
Read MoreIn case you had not noticed, our MD and Connected Systems MVP Robert Hogg posted about the new Patterns & Practices Architecture Track he is hosting on Day 1 of the Microsoft Future Decoded event next month in London.
This track is an additional track to the now full Future Decoded. If you are interested in …
Read MoreI am delighted to announce that I am hosting the Azure patterns&practices team in a dedicated invite-only track on Day One of Future Decoded!
I've been pushing to bring the patterns&practices team to the UK for a few years now, and it's excellent that it's finally happening at the Premier UK Microsoft event …
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