After using Azure DevOps YAML Pipelines for a few years it took me an embarrassingly long time to realise that it wasn’t possible to set demands when manually queueing a pipeline like it was when queueing a classic pipeline, this change kind-of made sense to me as everything should be declared in code right? Well […]
In this article I will guide you through what’s needed to configure Ansible so it can be used to manage Windows hosts. Using Ansible to manage Windows hosts gives you great benefits such as installing updates, installing software, joining domains and a whole lot more all using infrastructure as code. We’re going to be using […]
This tutorial will show you how to join Ubuntu to an Active Directory Domain quickly and easily, this will allow domain users to logon using their domain account and allows the use of Kerberos authentication with tools such as Ansible. Before I start I’m going to assume you already have a domain controller configured and […]
I have recently been playing around with Kerberos and was attempting to join an Azure Ubuntu VM to domain I had set up within Azure, if you’ve ever had anything to do with Active Directory you’ll know that you need to set the DNS servers of the machines you want to join to the domain […]
I recently had a scenario where I had a certificate with hundreds of unknown users added to it’s access control list which then needed removing, how had that happened and how did you resolve it? Good question! Let’s first quickly discuss how this had happened so you can avoid falling into the same issue. If […]
Update: I have now produced a new extension that cleans up all build directories and not just source, you can find this here. A while back I wrote about the difficulty managing self-hosted Azure DevOps agents when it comes to disk space. By default when a pipeline runs it leaves the entire cloned git repository […]
Whenever I’ve needed a Kubernetes Ingress controller in the past I’ve always used Nginx, not because it’s better than everything else but just because I was familiar with it. Outside of Kubernetes I’ve always used HAProxy as my reverse-proxy of choice and been very happy with it, it’s always performed well and been easy to […]
One of the most popular articles I’ve written on this blog was this tutorial showing how to deploy Selenium Grid 3 to Azure Kubernetes Service, Selenium Grid 4 is now in beta and has been rewritten from scratch so there are some big changes which you need to be aware of when deploying to Kubernetes. […]
How to manage disk space of Azure DevOps self-hosted agents using pipeline tasks and maintenance jobs.
I’ve been slowly migrating all my Azure DevOps pipelines to the new YAML format and really been enjoying the benefits however there is currently no way to test a YAML pipeline before committing it. Having to commit the YAML before seeing if it’s valid may be fine if you’re just pushing to master and have […]