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  • New features for my Azure DevOps Release Notes Extension

    calendarOct 30, 2021 · 2 min read · DevOps DevOps  ·
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    Over the past couple of weeks, I have shipped three user-requested features for my Azure DevOps Release Notes Extension Generate multiple documents in a single run You can now specify multiple templates and output files. This allows a single instance of the task to generate multiple release note documents with …


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  • Successful Software Delivery with DevOps

    calendarNov 12, 2020 · 1 min read · Azure Azure Best Practice Code Quality DevOps Software Delivery White Paper  ·
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    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 …


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  • A technique for porting PowerShell based Azure DevOps Extensions to Node so they can be run cross-platform without a complete re-write

    calendarDec 28, 2019 · 3 min read · DevOps DevOps  ·
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    Background I've written a good few extensions for Azure DevOps Services. Most of the early ones I wrote were written in PowerShell, but of late I have tended to use Typescript (targeting Node.JS) for the added cross-platform support. This has led me to consider if it was worth the effort to convert all my legacy …


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  • Creating Hyper-V hosted Azure DevOps Private Agents based on the same VM images as used by Microsoft for their Hosted Agents

    calendarDec 21, 2019 · 16 min read · DevOps DevOps VSTS VSTS  ·
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    Introduction There are times when you need to run Private Azure DevOps agents as opposed to using one of the hosted ones provided by Microsoft. This could be for a variety of reasons, including needing to access resources inside your corporate network or needing to have a special hardware specification or set of …


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  • A fix for Lability ‘Datafile not found’ error

    calendarDec 7, 2019 · 1 min read · DevOps DevOps  ·
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    Issue I have been busy automating the provision of our private Azure DevOps Agents using Packer and Lability; a more details blog post is on the way. All has been going OK on my test rig, but when came to run the automation pipeline on our main build HyperV host I got an error > Get-VmcConfigurationData : Datafile …


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  • Major enhancements to my Azure DevOps Cross Platform Release Notes Extension

    calendarDec 4, 2019 · 2 min read · DevOps DevOps VSTS VSTS  ·
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    Over the past few days I have published two major enhancements to my Azure DevOps Cross Platform Release Notes Extension. Added Support for Builds Prior to version 2.17.x this extension could only be used in Releases. This was because it used Release specific calls provided in the Microsoft API to work out the work …


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  • Still a few spaces left at the Yorkshire Global DevOps BootCamp Venue hosted at Black Marble

    calendarMay 25, 2018 · 1 min read · DevOps DevOps Events Events  ·
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    There are still a few spaces left at the Yorkshire Global DevOps BootCamp Venue hosted at Black Marble Come and learn about all things cool in DevOps, including Video keynote by Microsoft Local keynote: Breaking down the Monolith Hackathon/HandsOn DevOps challenges. The hands-on part with be based on a common …


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  • Yorkshire Venue for the Global DevOps BootCamp 2018

    calendarFeb 22, 2018 · 1 min read · DevOps DevOps  ·
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    I am really pleased that we at Black Marble are again the first UK location announcing that we are hosting an event on June 16th as part of the 2018 Global DevOps BootCamp. As the event’s site says… “The Global DevOps Bootcamp takes place once a year on venues all over the world. The more people joining in, the better …


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  • New release of my 'Generate Parameters.xml tools to add support for app.config files

    calendarFeb 13, 2018 · 2 min read · DevOps DevOps Release Management Release Management  ·
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    I recently released an updated version of my Generate Parameters.XML tool for Visual Studio. This release adds support for generating parameters.xml files from app.config files as well as web.config files Why you might ask why add support for app.config files when the parameters.xml model is only part of WebDeploy? …


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  • Versioning your ARM templates within a VSTS CI/CD pipeline

    calendarJan 22, 2018 · 1 min read · Azure Azure DevOps DevOps  ·
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    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 …


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