Tag Archives: devops

Use Azure AD Access Packages to onboard users in an Azure DevOps project

March 13, 2023 · by · in Azure, Azure AD · 2 Comments

This post looks at onboarding users into an Azure DevOps team or project using Azure AD access packages. The Azure AD access packages are part of the Microsoft Entra Identity Governance and provide a good solution for onboarding internal or external users into your tenant with access to the defined resources. Flow for onboarding Azure […]

Create Azure App Registration for API using Powershell

November 15, 2022 · by · in App Service, Azure · 4 Comments

This post shows how to setup an Azure App registration using Powershell for an application access token using an application role. In Azure roles are used for App only, scopes are used for delegated flows (Or roles for users). The Azure App registration uses OAuth2 with the client credentials flow. A secret and a client_id […]

Integration Testing for ASP.NET Core using EF Core Cosmos with XUnit and Azure DevOps

June 10, 2021 · by · in .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, Web · 9 Comments

This article shows how integration tests could be implemented for an ASP.NET Core application which uses EF Core and Azure Cosmos. The database tests can be run locally or in an Azure DevOps build using the Azure Cosmos emulator. XUnit is used to implement the tests. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreEfCoreCosmosTesting EF Core is used to the access […]

Add git tags and versioning to mark Deployments in Azure DevOps Pipelines

April 20, 2020 · by · in .NET Core · 2 Comments

This post shows how to tag to a git repository after a successful deployment or release. The tag is created using the version number of the build. The version number can be changed or set using Nerdbank.GitVersioning. The DevOps extension Tag\Branch Git on Release by Michael Barry was used to implement the tagging. This extension […]

Create, Build, Deploy and Configure an Azure App Service with Azure DevOps and Azure CLI

April 15, 2020 · by · in ASP.NET Core, Azure, devops · 2 Comments

This post shows how to create, build, deploy and configure an Azure App Service using Azure DevOps, Azure CLI and Powershell. An Azure Service is created in Azure using Azure DevOps with Azure CLI and Powershell. The Azure App Service is created and built using ASP.NET Core and Visual Studio. This solution is deployed to […]

Create Azure Infrastructure with Azure DevOps and Azure CLI Powershell scripts

March 31, 2020 · by · in Azure, devops · 2 Comments

In Azure DevOps, Pipelines can be used to create Azure infrastructure using Azure CLI and Powershell. This blog shows how to create a simple resource group in Azure using Azure DevOps Pipelines. Create the Azure DevOps Pipeline To get started, create a new Pipeline in your Azure DevOps project which references a git repository with […]

Publish Nuget packages in Azure DevOps Pipelines

March 28, 2020 · by · in .NET, ASP.NET Core, Azure · 1 Comment

In Azure DevOps, Pipelines can be used to build your solution, create a Nuget package and publish the Nuget package to the Nuget feed for further usage. This post shows how you can implement this and use the new Nuget package in Visual Studio. Setup Azure DevOps project and git Repository Open the required Azure […]