2018 Articles

In today’s quick tip, we are going to see how we can access a secret that we’ve defined in a variable group as part of a Azure DevOps yml based build.

In this article, we will learn how to use a custom dockerfile as the bases for a customised Azure DevOps build agent. There are many reasons why you might want to do this, including running custom tooling that takes a while to setup or tooling that isn’t supported yet.

Recently, I have been looking at the Utf8Json project and evaluating for use in our high performance payments API. Looking at the benchmarks on the Github page, and running my own benchmarks, the numbers stated seemed to tally up, so I built a few media formatters for aspnet core.

In my previous article, we setup a standarised build using the new YML build definitions within VSTS, using the .Net CLI tooling. In this article, we will use the same setup as our base, but we will build and publish a service fabric application.

In this article we will explore a preview feature inside of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) called YML Build Definitions. In essence, this allows you to change your build process from a .yml file in your git repository much in the same way as you can do with other services such as AppVeyor. During the article, we will setup a build definition for an Aspnet Core website.