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Being on call
True DevOps means you build it, you run it. You are responsible for the whole stack, including production. And when it comes to production, you have of cours...
Use Application Insights over multiple systems to track dependencies
It is essential to have an overview of what your software is doing, not only to troubleshoot issues but also to see how data flows through your system and ho...
How to monitor a 24 hour global event
For the last three years, Xpirit and Solidify organize the Global DevOps Bootcamp, an online event that teaches people about the DevOps practices using Micro...
Generate Kubernetes Access Token
There are various ways to connect to a Kubernetes cluster, but for a recent event (GDBC) I needed to connect to an Azure Kubernetes Cluster using an API call...
Mess up your wall with Scribit
I recently received my Scribit, a wall drawing robot, that I backed using Kickstarter. You can read more about the device at the Kickstarter website or direc...
Add http compression to your httpclient in dotnet core 2.1
Microsoft added a nice feature in dotnet core 2.1 that allows you to register HttpClient instances in a central place and inject them using Dependency Inject...
Analyze your project with SonarQube using a docker container
SonarQube is an excellent static code analyzer tool as it has many different analyzers and provides useful suggestions for any potential bugs and issues. As ...
Retrieve the callback url of a logic app inside your ARM template
In a recent project, we use Infrastructure as Code to roll out resources to Azure. For this, we use ARM templates, and part of this template is the deploymen...
Use Carter to create a simple HTTP API in ASPNET Core
Creating an HTTP API can be done in multiple ways, but if you are a .NET developer, you most likely will use the ASP.NET Web API framework. In previous versi...
Sending Delivery information to VictorOps from Azure DevOps releases using Bash
When you are using an Incident Management alerting tool like Pagerduty or VictorOps, it might be beneficial to notice when your deployment system is performi...
Canonical URLs in an HTTP API
When you are building an HTTP API, you need to make sure your endpoints have a canonical URI structure. You can describe a canonical URL as your preferred en...
Kubernetes and Visual Studio Code, an ideal combination
In a recent project, we use Kubernetes to host our workloads. The cluster and agents are running in Azure and we used to have this set up as virtual machines...
Global DevOps Bootcamp - Provisioning the workitems
On the 16th of June, Xpirit organized the Global DevOps Bootcamp. An event that took place all over the world as multiple venues (75) in all kind of countrie...
Run RabbitMQ using Docker Compose with guest user outside localhost
In a recent project, we needed to run RabbitMQ as a replacement for our Azure service bus. The Azure SB works fine, but when we wanted to create a local end ...
Override docker-compose port numbers
When you are using a docker-compose yaml file, you basically describe how your containers need to run and interact with each other. Part of this are the port...
Retrieve an OAuth client token from Azure AD using Runscope
Runscope is a great online tool to validate and test API endpoints. For a recent project, we are using it to mimic traffic from an external system that is su...
Create indexes with included columns with Entity Framework Core using code first
Entity Framework allows you to use a code first approach in creating your database design. Basically, you create your classes, maybe add some annotations and...
Application Insights release annotations from Linux
Application Insights provides an enormous amount of information about your application, infrastructure, users etc. It can be difficult to see if a recent cha...
Integrate and change a VSTS pull request
You might have seen it with GitHub; when you do a pull request there will most likely be a build being kicked off and that influences the state of the pull r...
Use health endpoints in ASPNET Core with Docker
It is important to know if your nicely created application is still working correctly, but you do not want to keep refreshing your browser and seeing if that...
The importance of planning poker
When you practice the scrum process, then one of the artifacts is planning poker. It is a method to gather estimates for the stories and with teams new to sc...
Run the Azure CLI 2.0 on a VSTS hosted Linux agent
The new Azure CLI version 2 is pretty easy to use when you want to manage your Azure resources. Even if you want to use it from the VSTS build/release agent,...
Save money in Azure by shutting down VMs
In Azure, you pay for what you use. And when we talk about virtual machines, this means that you pay for the compute, network and storage. This is charged by...
Password complexity
The complexity of picking a good password and what you can do as a developer
Kubernetes on Azure
There are a lot of resources on how to setup Kubernetes on Azure, but they require some prerequisites, so I wanted to make a step by step guide here.