DevOps

Polyglot Notebooks' PowerShell support enhances IT Ops with robust, repeatable processes via 'executable documentation'.

Open-source software has become an essential part of many organisation's software supply chain, however, this poses challenges with license compliance and security assurance.

Implement Python data validation with Pandera & Great Expectations in this comparison of their features and use cases.

Explore using Python virtual environments & Poetry on Windows for smoother workflows, with a script & guide to enhance your dependency management experience.

This series will follow our ongoing journey of migrating the CI/CD pipelines for our many Open Source repositories, from Azure DevOps to GitHub Actions.

Discover using GitHub Actions for auto-updates to Python packages on PyPI, assessing its role in Continuous Deployment.

When implementing OpenChain, understanding the specification will help guide your organisation to having processes in place to review and manage open-source software

The key risks associated with open-source software, from whether you use it minimally, to using it throughout all your systems.

With much of the modern world is built upon software, organisations need to understand and manage the legal and security risks associated with open-source software.

Signing git commits proves that you are the author of the code you are pushing up to GitHub, and helps protect the integrity of your software supply chain.

This post gives an overview of Continuous Integrations and shows how you can implement it with GitHub Actions, with an accompanying example Python project

Explore how to share a function from a PowerShell module as a standalone script, without maintaining two code versions.

Fix broken dev loop with containerized apps on Azure CLI for Windows. Learn a workaround to avoid using outdated Azure CLI versions.

Explore containerisation & Docker for app development & deployment. Learn to create containerised applications with examples in this intro guide.

Bicep provides a significant improvement in tooling for organisations seeking to deploy infrastructure as code on Microsoft Azure.

Deploy a VueJS app on Azure Static Web Apps using a YAML-defined Azure DevOps pipeline with Microsoft's hosting solution for static web applications.

Power BI deployment pipelines manage collaboration, change management, and testing of reports, enabling DevOps for analytics solutions.

Learn how to import .NET packages from NuGet into PowerShell and utilize their classes/methods, while avoiding PowerShell NuGet provider pitfalls.

Learn to automate Power BI data source credential updates using RSA-OAEP encryption and .NET SDK helper classes for on-premises data sources.

CodeOps enables you to layer standards, automation, and governance to your source control repositories, decreasing manual effort and increasing productivity.

Fix the "You need permission" error in Azure Synapse Analytics with this guide, addressing its causes and solutions for Data Engineers/Developers.

Assign roles in Synapse Studio for Azure Synapse Analytics devs using Azure CLI. Accessible by Owners/Contributors of the resource.

Discover how GitOps, often used for Kubernetes management, can benefit a broader audience.

Building a system that solves even just 10% of a problem is a worthwhile endeavour, not just because of the value the 10% delivers but because its mere existence will lower the barrier-to-entry for your colleagues to collaboratively iterate on it - not so much 'Build it and they will come' as 'Build a road and they will come'

Simplify dependency consumption & streamline integration with meta/virtual NuGet packages and tools like Dependabot.

Explore deploying Azure Synapse Analytics workspaces using ARM templates, a popular infrastructure deployment method for organizations.

Implement using parameters in Resource Manager templates for optional resource deployment and configuration.

Did you know that you can fully automate the bootstrapping process of setting up an Azure DevOps enviornment? This post shows you how.

Learn how to use PowerShell Remoting to connect to an Azure Virtual Machine; a useful technique for managing servers like cattle, not pets.

In this blog post, I provide a how-to guide for automating your TeamCity backups using a PowerShell script.

In this post we show you how to get up and running with GitFlow.

PowerShell is fantastic language for DevOps, automation and general scripting. Every developer should be familiar with it; here's a guide to some useful resources to help you learn it.

Step-by-step guide on setting up YouTrack and using IIS as a reverse proxy for custom domain access.