Server maintenance with fan-out pattern in Azure DevOps YAML

Today, I am going to show you an implementation of well-known fan-out pattern in Azure DevOps YAML (AZDO) CI/CD pipeline using Azure DevOps REST API. I will present a simple way to get an one or a few pipelines be executed from one central place called management plain in fan-out mode. What is fan-out and … Read more

Secret management in Azure DevOps Pipelines

Secret management is an essential part of release management process. As a DevOps you have to be sure, that automated process have appropriate access to all resources it have to. From another hand, we need a control over the way how exactly sensitive information stores and transfers to executive process. It might be even more … Read more

Release flow implementation with SAST/DAST on Azure DevOps

Today, we will take about one of the most popular product delivery flow, commonly used in small and medium size projects. This is release flow. Release flow origins from main stream flow, where there is only one main branch and short living feature branches. In release flow, new release candidate cuts from main branch each … Read more

GitVersion tool: Semantic Versioning 2.0 in Azure DevOps

Semantic Versioning is a versioning scheme for using meaningful version numbers to avoid “dependency hell”. Semantic Versioning works by structuring each version identifier into three parts: Additional labels for pre-release and build metadata are available as extensions to the MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH format. More information about the standard and implementation is on official SemVer.org. There are a tons of … Read more