The Problem

Recently an Azure DevOps Pipeline for a .NET 6 based Azure Functions started to fail on some of our self-hosted build agents with the error

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Around a year ago I posted on 'Social Media Posts after Migrating from WordPress to Hugo Static Pages'. Recently I have found that the Twitter functionality in my Logic App was failing.

Turns out this was due to the changes in the Twitter Free API, with them moving from V1 to V2 which requires OAuth authentication as …

Updated: 19 Jul 2023 - Revised the post to use Az CLI Task as opposed to a PowerShell Task

Updated: 29 Aug 2024 - Revised the PowerShell as original version was not working. Also see follow up post on using Workload Identity federation

Background

Azure DevOps Pipelines have a built in mechanism to run maintenance …

In a modern hybrid cloud world we have to accept constant change as the norm. You can't just build something and forget about it. You have to keep it up to date as newer tools/libraries appear. This is to at least address security issues, even if you don't want to adopt the new features.

So I am expecting a degree of …

I posted a while ago about how I had automated the generation of social media posts for my static Hugo based website using Azure Logic Apps.

The other place I auto-generate social media posts is from releases via my project's Azure DevOps Pipeline builds. These use a YAML Pipeline Template that calls a Marketplace task …

Background

When working with Azure DevOps, you may need to access the REST API if you wish to perform scripted tasks such as creating work items, or generating reports. Historically, you had to use a Personal Access Token (PAT) to do this.

If you look in my repo of useful Azure DevOps PowerShell scripts you will find …

Background

We use Lability to build Windows Server images for our test labs. Lability makes use of Desired State Configuration (DSC) to build the VM images. Part of this process is for Lability to download DSC modules, as ZIP files, from a NuGet feed such as PowerShell Gallery to inject into the created VM image. …

I make every effort keep all my Azure DevOps Pipeline extensions reliable as I know they are used by many people, but mistakes happen.

Yesterday I released an updated version of my ReleaseNotes task that introduced a bug if the pipeline produced no artifacts. I am pleased to say I have fixed the bug, and addressed this …

Background

At Black Marble we have our own private build agents, but they are built using the same Packer process as the Microsoft hosted ones. I recently rebuilt our agents to match the latest version of the hosted agents, and I ran into an issue with some .NET 3.1 based x86 MSTests. The tests were failing with the …

Background

I was recently trying to use PowerShelGet Install-Package to install a module from an Azure DevOps Artifacts hosted PowerShell Gallery using the following script

1# For authentication use a PAT as the password, UID can be anything
2$PATcreds = Get-Credential 
3Register-PSRepository -Name BM -SourceLocation …