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How to update application settings of an Azure Functions App in Azure DevOps Pipeline

This article aims to patch one annoying gap in Microsoft’s documentation: how, exactly, do you update Azure Function App’s application settings using an Azure DevOps build/release pipeline? It sounds easy, and something that should happen almost automatically – and for Azure Web Apps (or App Services, as they are often…Continue reading How to update application settings of an Azure Functions App in Azure DevOps Pipeline

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Azure DevOps Pipelines Caching

Azure DevOps pipelines have a pretty handy feature called Pipeline Caching. It’ll help you avoid annoyingly long NuGet package restores in your builds. And that makes sense – why would you restore packages again and again and again, if you’re not updating your dependencies meanwhile? And especially in the case…Continue reading Azure DevOps Pipelines Caching

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Pulumi task on Azure DevOps fails with error “azureblob.OpenBucket: accountName is required”

This article explains how to fix one of the many issues you might face when configuring Pulumi deployments for your Azure DevOps Pipelines! The particular error you may run into was “azureblob.OpenBucket: accountName is required” – what a descriptive one, when there’s no accountName to be specified anywhere! But first…Continue reading Pulumi task on Azure DevOps fails with error “azureblob.OpenBucket: accountName is required”