Overview I’ve tried several times to implement the Pipeline Cache task using Microsoft’s documentation, but have failed every time. I seemed to configure everything like the documentation indicate...

Working Azure DevOps Pipeline Caching for Angular CI

Azure Front Door Standard/Premium Tips and Tricks
Update Since writing this article, Azure Front Door Standard/Premium has been released to GA (on March 29, 2022). You can read more about it here: Introducing the new Azure Front Door: Reimagined ...

Azure DevOps: Migrate Work Items to New Organization / Project
Overview If you have used Azure DevOps for a long time, you probably have asked / been asked if you can just simply move work items in one project to another. Maybe there was a company re-org, or ...

GitHub Actions: Publish Code Coverage Summary to Pull Request and Job Summary
Overview This is a follow-up to my previous post: The Easiest Way to Generate and Publish .NET Code Coverage in Azure DevOps I was familiar with adding Code Coverage to my pipelines in Azure DevO...

The Easiest Way to Generate and Publish .NET Code Coverage in Azure DevOps
Overview Publishing code coverage in Azure DevOps and making it look pretty is way harder than it should be. It’s something that sounds simple, oh just check the box on the task - but nope you hav...
Azure DevOps: No agent pool found with identifier xx
Overview We are using the Virtual Machine Scale Set (VMSS) Azure DevOps agents pretty heavily. They are perfect for our situation, needing to be able to deploy to services locked down by private e...
Azure DevOps: Pipeline Templates
Overview Although linked in various posts in this blog, I never fully advertise my pipeline-templates GitHub repository. I refer back to this every so often to see how I accomplished something in ...
Azure DevOps: Delete Custom Fields on Process Template
Overview I had the annoying misfortune today of running into an issue in Azure DevOps when customizing a process template. I added a field to a work item but I created the field as the wrong type....
Tokenizing Angular Environment Configuration in Azure DevOps
Overview I was working with a team that had an Angular front-end application and I was tasked with improving their CI/CD process. They had some automated pipelines, but they were running a build b...
So You Want to Migrate Trac Tickets to GitHub Issues
Disclaimer I should first off state that I wouldn’t entirely recommend this, if you are migrating to GitHub for the first time, you should try to start off with a blank slate. Keep the old tickets...