This article explains how to list all “Environment Variables” (that’s pipeline variables, job / stage variables, predefined variables and even local script variables that are mounted on to the agent as Environment Variables) using PowerShell in Azure DevOps.
This article explains in very brief terms – it is Christmas and I’m enjoying my 2-week-long European vacation, after all 😉 – how to make sure your Azure DevOps (YAML) pipelines fire on schedule. Because by default, they won’t. And I’ll explain to you why that (kind of) makes sense!…Continue reading How to make sure your pipelines run as scheduled in Azure DevOps?
This article explains how to get around new security limitations (did I say “limitations”? I meant “features”) in Azure DevOps to make it tolerable to configure your Azure DevOps Deployment Environments. Because the recent changes to Azure DevOps have made it, quite frankly, intolerable. But – let’s take a step…Continue reading Azure DevOps suddenly not letting you manage Environments ? Sorry, it’s for your own security!
This article explains our solution to a very particular use case. We needed to go through .csproj files, find certain dependencies from them, and then figure out their versions. And all of this needed to happen in an Azure DevOps pipeline. But when would this be helpful? Well, hear me…Continue reading How to find out dependency versions in your .csproj files using PowerShell?
Another (possibly?) timely and weird one here! This article explains how to work around Azure DevOps suddenly stopping to play nice with Docker and the rest of our tooling and causing all builds to fail with oddly non-descript error messages. Annoying to deal with but not the end of the…Continue reading Azure DevOps pipelines suddenly failing with “##[error]#0 building with default instance using docker driver”
This article expands on my earlier article on automatically figuring out versioning in an Azure DevOps Pipeline. In the other article, you’d add Major and Minor versions as variables, and Patch (the last part of an x.y.z version scheme) would be incremented automatically. In this one, I’m describing how to…Continue reading Automatically get version number from project dependencies in Azure DevOps
It took me something like 10 years of struggling to get remote triggers to finally fire in Azure DevOps, and in this article, I’ll share how I finally got the remote repository trigger to work for an actual Team Project in real production use (and that’s a first!) 😃 Okay,…Continue reading Working YAML sample of a remote repository CI trigger in Azure DevOps
In Azure DevOps, you sometimes have a project that’s being built with a certain .NET version. It’ll require that particular SDK version, and most typically that is defined in the global.json file. However, if you also need to install a certain .NET tool, running dotnet tool install MyBuildTool will fail.…Continue reading How to avoid global.json version conflicts in Azure DevOps
This article explains one possible reason why you might run into an error like “Variable reference is not valid. ‘:’ was not followed by a valid variable name character. Consider using ${} to delimit the name” when using a PowerShell task in an Azure DevOps pipeline. But hey – at…Continue reading How to fix Azure DevOps “Variable reference is not valid. ‘:’ was not followed by a valid variable name character. Consider using ${} to delimit the name”
Eh, this was a weird one. This article explains how to get around an issue where your build tools fail due to weird “path does not exist” errors when you’re using bash to execute a restore to your project. The build would probably succeed nicely, but it fails due to…Continue reading Azure DevOps fails with “The path [path-to-your-repo] does not exist” even though the repository is there for sure?
