The Issue
We saw an issue with our SonarQube 10.3 Developer Edition (that is running as a Docker image hosted in Azure) when it was doing the analysis of a project that included Azure Bicep files.
The Azure DevOps pipeline that triggered the SonarQube analysis was not failing, but within the SonarQube analysis step an …
Read MoreBackground
A really nice feature of this configuration is that when a PR is created in GitHub a test static website environment site is built in Azure to …
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The ability to discern false content and critically analyze information on the internet is a skill that is increasingly required. Most of us in the tech field use the internet daily for best practice implementations and personal development. …
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Azure Integration Motivation
More recently I’ve been looking into azure integration and have been wanting to advance in the field. I enjoy all the real world uses of these products and have been taking on whatever becomes available at work. …
Read More- About Rik Hepworth Rik helps organisations large and small use Cloud better. Whether that is a new adoption where governance and management are key, or an application modernisation project where technology choice and team knowledge are important factors in success. Through his public speaking and community involvement, …
Read More Not every project can host services in the cloud. If you have a local environment running on virtual machines, connecting to that from the Android emulator running on the same host can be tricky. This post details the solution I use and the tools needed to enable it.
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Read MoreThe Issue
This site was built using Hugo, a static site generator. I recently tried to do a long overdue update the version of Hugo from 0.108 to the current 0.122 version.
I had not expected any problems, but found that the site failed to render, but with no error message all I saw was
1hugo.exe server --logLevel info …
Read MoreI was recently trying to create an Azure DevOps work item when an email is received using the Power Automate 'Create an Azure DevOps work item when email arrives with 'Bug' in subject' template.
The flow created without issue, and all the drop downs were correctly populated with O365 and Azure DevOps values as …
Read MoreProblem Space
Over the years of developing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with either ARM templates or Bicep (since it was released in 2020), I have made it my best practice where possible to use well-defined base type parameters (
Strings | Integers | Booleans) so that the templates are usable and maintainable by …
Read More- Bicep is a great improvement over ARM Templates but doesn’t remove the need to validate our code at build time. I could continue to use the ARM-TTK and validate the generated template, but bicep has it’s own built in rules. Getting build errors in a way that can provide meaningful information in my CI/CD tooling is an …
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