Background

Having automated builds is essential to any good development process. Irrespective of the build engine in use, VSTS, Jenkins etc. you need to have a means to create the VMs that are running the builds.

You can of course do this by hand, but in many ways you are just extending the old ‘it works on my PC – the …

In response to requests on the VSTS Marketplace I have added a pair of tasks to added/edit entries in a .JSON format files.

The first is for adding a version to a file like a package.json file e.g.

1{  
2"name": "myapp",  
3"version": "1.0.0",  
4"license": "MIT"  
5}

The …

Background

I have recently been posting on using Azure to host private VSTS build/release agents to avoid agent queue deadlocking issues with more complex release pipelines. One of the areas discussed is reducing cost of running a private agent in Azure by only running the private agent within a limited time range, …

Updates

• 28th Nov 2017: Also see this second post Creating a VSTS build agent on an Azure DevLabs Windows Server VM with no GUI - Using Artifacts
• 30th Nov 2017: Also see associated post Announcing a new VSTS Extension for Starting and Stopping Azure DevTest Labs VMs

As I posted recently I have been trying to add more …