by Peter McLarty | April 18, 2025 | DevOps
Recently, I needed to do something where I had to get variables to work with a PowerShell Task in an Azure DevOps Release Pipeline. I was initially confused: the task had its own settings for environment variables, but I needed those settings in the pipeline, not...
by Peter McLarty | January 15, 2025 | Azure, DevOps
Often, finding the admin account in an Azure VM comes up when managing multiple VMs across an organisation. This is possibly more prevalent where there are no particular rules or considerations of what to use. There are no rules around account usernames for the admin...
by Peter McLarty | May 27, 2022 | Data
I’m doing some Azure Data Factory work and encountered the problem alluded to in the Azure documentation, and I have to say Azure Data Factory variables are problematic. I created a pipeline which set variables inside a For Each activity. The documentation...
by Peter McLarty | January 25, 2022 | Azure, DevOps
When you start out with Azure DevOps and a lack of understanding or perhaps simply wanting to do a quick and dirty with Azure SQL database it’s not all that hard to set up. Create a pipeline for the build and then a release pipeline. Use some secret variables...
by Peter McLarty | January 10, 2022 | Azure, DevOps
Doing some work these past few weeks and all I can say is Microsoft Cloud security is difficult. Don’t believe the hype, when you delve into security with Microsoft Cloud products, things are difficult and broken at the worst. Recently, and there’ll be more posted...
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