Automation

If you've been following me for a while you'll know I'm a huge fan of markdown, GitHub and simplifying the life of developers. In this post I am going to show you how you use the tools you already use and love along with some open source magic that has a long history to build a documentation publishing workflow. All without needing to install Word or use Windows, even if you want to publish a Word document!

I was recently at an event where I had a discussion with someone who mentioned they'd missed the news about the retirement of a feature in Azure that they were making use of in a solution.

In this post I'm going to look at what I think are the basics you need to know and show you a quick way to start working with Git without needing to install a bunch of tools.

If you run in an environment where you need to track changes to Tags on Resource Groups in Azure then you may find this PowerShell snippet useful as code to drop into a Runbook.

I needed to provide an easy way to provision around 30 inter-related services that together constitute the hosting environment for single customer solution.

When you provision a VMSS and you set the "overprovision" flag to "true" the provisioning engine will build more Instances than required...

To truly move to a VMSS approach using a VM image is to remove any local static configuration data we might bake into our solution.

Learn how to start building virtual machine images that can be deployed to VM Scale Sets.

See how to build and deploy a .NET Windows Service from Visual Studio Team Services to a Windows Virtual Machine running in Azure.

Microsoft provides a bunch of useful information on how to deploy from Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to different targets...

If you've ever worked in any form of systems administrator role then you will be familiar with process automation...

The introduction of the Azure Resource Manager platform in Azure continues to expose new possibilities for managing your deployed resources.

Why not generate PowerShell scriptlets from actions completed within the Azure Mangement Portal?