devops

Before you deploy that Visual Studio extension, you may want to sign it so folks know you're legit. This GitHub Action can help!

Having problems versioning that Visual Studio extension you're trying to publish through a GitHub workflow? I gotchu.

You've got your own Visual Studio extension, open source on GitHub, but you need to figure out HOW to publish it to the Visual Studio marketplace - this new GitHub Action can help!

Today, I spent a little bit of time figuring out how to get a proper CLA bot attached to some GitHub repositories. Gotta tell ya, it wasn't that hard, but I wanted to blog it anyway so I can refer back when I have to do it again in 5 years.

I needed to be able to open an SSH tunnel in one of my Azure pipelines recently to get access to some databases hosted in AWS for running various integration tests.

I had three broken / failed AzureDevOps service connections that I could not remove via the UI. I finally figured it out using AzureDevOps API. Read on to find out how!

What's the best way to version, and tag, your code and containers so you know which commits actually make it to production?

What's the best way to version, and tag, your code and containers so you know which commits actually make it to production?

How do you run your test suite in Azure DevOps, while using a Mac build agent, and then publish the results? Read on to find out!