Devops

I was recently invited to present at the Microsoft Reactor on what you should consider when taking your Generative AI apps from proof-of-concept to production. This post goes into a bit more detail and provides useful links for content from the talk.

Appropriate data handling is an important part of any software system design. Often times we overlook the risks involved with the visibility and accessibility of data passing through our solutions and don't even think about how secure data handling applies to telemetry and logging. In this post I am going to explore how you can use Azure Logic Apps in-built input/output obfuscation capabilities to limit the exposure of data in operational logging and how you can check that the settings are configured.

Regardless of where your git repositories are hosted, there is always a need to have visbility over what's going on in them. While services like GitHub provide metrics APIs, there are some limitations around those metrics APIs, particularly for busy or large repositories. In this post I'm going to look at how you can use Azure Data Explorer to analyse the commit history for a git repository.

They say there's no place like home, so in this post I'm going to take a look at Microsoft's new home for developers on Windows - Dev Home!

In this post I introduce the ideas of design-time validation and unit testing for Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) developed using Bicep. Perfect if you're new to IaC and from an Ops background!

Trying to assign a Service Principal to an RBAC role in Azure and receiveing the error 'Principals of type Application cannot validly be used in role assignments.'? Read on to find out how to fix it!

Let's discuss how you can go about the introduction of generative AI services such as Copilot into your software development process.

Off the back of my recent post on building an Azure Logic Apps solution for cross-posting on social media I wanted to export what I'd quickly built and make an easily deployable asset in Azure using Bicep. See how you can that in this post.

In this post I am going to take the next step - take our containerised ASP.NET web application and deploy it to Kubernetes whilst making sure the build and deployment process is centralised and repeatable.

We previously looked at the basics of what is involved in bringing .NET Framework applications to Windows Containers. In this second post we are going to go a little deeper and look at migrating an application.

In this multi-post series I am going to look at what is required to take existing .NET Framework applications and bring them to Windows Containers.

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.

For this session I used App Service's inbuilt CD offering, Kudu, which can use webhook triggers on GitHub, Git and Bitbucket repositories...

A short update from me on a couple of speaking slots I'm doing in April 2019 that might be of interest if you're in Sydney.

For this session I used App Service's inbuilt CD offering, Kudu, which can use webhook triggers on Github, Git and Bitbucket repositories...

You now have the choice to package Python Azure Functions using a pre-built template in Azure DevOps.

Over the last few years I've come to rely heavily on Application Insights as the primary Application Performance Management (APM) tool of choice for services I build.

Yesterday afternoon while doing some work I ran into an issue in Azure. Initially I thought this issue was due to a bug in my (new) code...

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...

Autoscale is one of the facets of the cloud that I see often misunderstood by developers and IT Pros alike, so let's take a look at it in more detail.