With DevOps best practices and Microsoft’s DevOps tooling, Black Marble can deliver agile planning, source code control, package management, build, testing and release automation to continuously integrate, test, deliver and monitor your application. It is crucial to not only have the right people in place for your …

There have been some major paradigm shifts in the history of computing with some of the most notable being marked, not only by changes in technology, but by changes in staffing that technology. When the computing standard for mainframe shifted to client/server, the staff model moved from computer operator to system …

I recently started working on a new Logic App for a customer using the Enterprise Integration Pack for Visual Studio 2015, I was greeted with a familiar sight, the schema generation tools from BizTalk, but with a new lick of paint The Logic App requires the use of Flat File schemas, so I knocked up a schema from the …

The Azure DevOps (VSTS) team have published the promised postmortem on the outage on the 4th of September. It gives good detail on what actually happened to the South Central Azure Datacenter and how it effected VSTS (as it was then called). More interestingly it provides a discussion of mitigations they plan to put in …

Updated 3 Feb 2018 - Also see Versioning your ARM templates within a VSTS CI/CD pipeline with Semantic Versioning Azure Resource Templates (ARM) allow your DevOps infrastructure deployments to be treated as ‘content as code’. So infrastructure definitions can be stored in source control. As with any code it is really …

If you are considering to move to hosting your websites in Azure but either have a lot of legacy applications written in Java or your organisation is Java focussed, then Azure App Services provide the option to host Java code (Java Servlets, JSPs etc.) in the same way that they can host .NET code (ASP.NET Web Api, …

By default logic apps will be set to trigger every 60 minutes which, if you are not aware, may lead you to thinking that your logic app isn’t working at all! As Logic Apps are preview there are some features that are not available through the designer yet, but you can do a lot through the Code view. In this instance …

What I want: When the logic app trigger receives a JSON formatted message from Azure Service Bus topic, I want to send a notification to the “email” field. My sample message structure looks like this: What happens: Because a message received on service bus doesn’t have a predefined format – it could be JSON, XML, or …

Part One of this series covered the project itself and the overall template structure. Part Two went through how I deploy the Domain Controller in depth. Part Three talks about deploying my ADFS server and in this final part I will show you how to configure the WAP server that faces the outside world. The Template The …

In part one of this series of posts I talked about the project driving my creation of these Azure Resource Templates, the structure of the template and what resource I was deploying. This post will go through the deployment and configuration of the first VM which will become my domain controller and certificate server. …