Nerd Stuff

Recently I have been working on a project to compare the performance of an application on Azure VMs and running on the Azure Kubernetes Service. To streamline the infrastructure deployment, the team centralized deployments using HashiCorp’s Terraform. In trying to deploy our application completely via Terraform we ran into some... [Read More]

In my previous article, Host Azure DevOps Build containers on AKS, I outlined how to use the Azure Kubernetes Service to create a scalable build agent pool. I had plans to publish a project to GitHub to help facilitate the deployment of this but it never made it off the... [Read More]

I don’t like waiting in lines, lines of any kind. Hatred of lines is one of my many character flaws. It is this hatred for waiting in lines that drove me to look to find a faster way to run my code through a build pipeline in Azure DevOps. I... [Read More]

I have been working with Azure Functions on my latest project. It took me some trial and error to get the tools working well for local development so I wanted to document and share them. In this post, I will cover local debugging and bindings. [Read More]

Managing secrets is a challenge in every DevOps environment, I use Azure Key Vault to manage my secrets. When I was getting started working with Key Vault my biggest challenge was not getting secrets in, but how to get them out. The samples we provide with the azure-keyvault NPM package... [Read More]