Azure Automation Runbooks with PowerShell
Damian Brady
Damovisa
Cloud Dev Advocate at Microsoft. League of Extraordinary Cloud DevOps Advocates! #LoECDA
Biography
I'm an Australian Cloud Developer Advocate specializing in DevOps. I'm currently based in Toronto, Canada, but will be moving back to Australia - the land of the dangerous creatures and beautiful beaches - in 2018.
Formerly a dev at Octopus Deploy and a Microsoft MVP, I have a background in software development and consulting in a broad range of industries. In Australia, I co-organised the Brisbane .Net User Group, and launched the now annual DDD Brisbane conference. I regularly speak at conferences, User Groups, and other events around the world, and I've been an occasional guest on various podcasts like .NET Rocks and Hanselminutes.
Most of the time you'll find me talking to developers and IT Pros to help them get the most out of their DevOps strategies.
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Entries
DevOps for Data Science
Continuous Availability - LIVE at Build 2018
Deploying Azure Functions with VSTS
Moving your Data Warehouse to the Cloud
Improving Performance for haveibeenpwned.com with Troy Hunt
Unit Testing your Database Changes
Building Security into your DevOps Pipeline
Deploying Node to Docker on Azure
Deploying Database changes alongside your code with SSDT projects and VSTS
Deploying to On-Premises Servers with VSTS
Customer focus and making production visible with Raygun
Sessions
API First CI/CD for iOS and Andriod
Chef News and Updates for Azure
DevOps for Data Science
Build anything using VSTS Cloud-hosted Mac, Windows and Linux build agents
Azure DevOps with VSTS
DevOps for any language
Channel 9 Live Interview with Damian Brady
The Power of a Great API: The case for writing API-first applications
Application Insights: Putting the "cycle" back in Application Lifecycle Management
Diving into Team Foundation Server Extensibility
Release Management for the Enterprise
Climbing the Agile Testing Ladder featuring Visual Studio 2013, TFS 2013, Microsoft Test…
Comments
Unit Testing your Database Changes
@Noe: Good question!
The part we didn't really show (and probably should have) was that all of this testing can run in your pipeline. Just as you should run your code unit tests in your IDE before commiting, you can do the same with database tests.
Deploying to On-Premises Servers with VSTS
Are you talking about using Release Management in TFS rather than VSTS? If so - it will work if you're on a recent-enough version (the docs say TFS 2018).
If you're talking about whether you can do this from VSTS/TFS Build (rather than Release), the answer is no. Deployments should really be handled with Release Management (or another tool if you like) rather than Build - separating the creation of an artifact and actually deploying and promoting it between environments is really important in a good DevOps strategy. There's some good information about why on the 12 Factor App page.
Team Foundation Build Custom Tasks
@Chris Eelmaa:
Hi Chris,
The version number for the release is tied to the version number of the Nuget Package pushed to Octopus. Using OctoPack means the Nuget Package version (in this case) is given the version of the assembly in the project being compiled.
You can set the Release numbering format in the Project Settings page in Octopus Deploy.
I hope that helps,
Damian Brady