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Introduction to DevOpSmartBoard for GitHub

GitHub has continued to expand its feature set in order to become your One-Stop-Shop for all of your DevOps requirements. Every organization wants visibility and tracking while implementing DevOps. As a result of our experience with several GitHub Enterprise implementations for our clients, we are frequently asked about the best…
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Azure App Service Scaling Features And Capabilities

In terms of web applications, underlying infrastructure plays a vital role in coping with application performance, complex logic, traffic surges, and long-running processor execution times. it is one of the most difficult jobs to calculate the specifications in terms of infrastructure for web applications, whether it is public-facing applications or…
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Azure App Service (Build And Host Web Apps, Mobile-Back Ends Without Managing Infrastructure)

Introduction In this blog we will see what is Azure App Service, and it’s  features and why do we use it, we can develop an application in any language or framework, such as .NET, .NET Core, Java, Node.js, Ruby, PHP, or Python. Applications run and scale as per our need…
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Azure DevOps Server Backup and Restore

In this blog we will see how and why to Azure DevOps Server (earlier named as TFS) data backup. I will be using Azure DevOps Server or TFS word interchangeably. We should backup the data of our Azure DevOps Server deployment in order to avoid loss of data, productivity loss…
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SAP RPA 2.0: Out of Office (Outlook Automation)

Introduction: In this blog post we will see how Out of Office messages can be set by searching for approved emails for leave applications in Outlook daily, using SAP intelligent RPA 2.0. We can see the creation of automation to do the same and test it successfully. We will take…
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SAP Intelligent RPA 2.0: No Code – Low Code Project Demo for PDF Data Extraction

Introduction: In this blog post we will see how SAP Intelligent RPA can be helpful in simplifying invoice consolidation process using easy steps. We will see creation of a project, building the RPA and Testing the workflow successfully. Let us consider a use case where any business in receipt of…
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Single Team Project Migration from TFS to Azure DevOps Services

Does your client want to break out from the existing older version of TFS (2015 and later) to Azure DevOps Services? Are you looking to upgrade only one project within the TFS collection to Azure DevOps Services?  Keep reading to find out how it is possible to migrate a single…
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Work load-balancing using master and slave configuration in Jenkins

1.create a master and launch it via putty , start the tomcat for hosting the Jenkins.  2.Genearte key with the command ssh-keygen in master and its connection to the slave and change the configurations in sshd_config (etc/ssh/).Copy the slave’s private IP and paste it as follows ssh-copy-id ,pvtIP , in all other server.  3.open the Jenkins, and open the manage nodes…
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Comparison between Azure DevOps Services (VSTS) and Azure DevOps Server (TFS)

In this blog we will list down the basic differences between Azure DevOps Sever earlier called as Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Azure DevOps Services earlier called as Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). The comparison will be done based on many parameters like usage, availability, scalability, feature releases etc.  …
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Introduction to Azure DevOps Server (TFS) and Azure DevOps Services (VSTS)

In this blog we will talk about introduction to Azure DevOps Sever earlier called as Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Azure DevOps Services earlier called as Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). We will learn what is Azure DevOps Server (TFS) and Azure DevOps Services (VSTS), the basic Architecture of Azure…
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SAP Intelligent RPA 2.0: End to End working scenario of Supplier Invoice Status Checks Bot. 

Introduction: These days for checking the Invoice and Payment status, most businesses are busy doing manual progression. Daily, multiple requests are received by the supplier to check the invoice statuses and provide other details. Checking the status and providing the details of each invoice over the emails requires labor, which is a tedious and time-consuming process. Integrating this…
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Create Queries in Azure DevOps

let us learn how to create Queries. Queries are used to filter work items based on certain criteria. We can create queries from the web portal or from a supported client, such as Visual Studio Team Explorer and Team Explorer, save queries and share queries with others. So, lets see…
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Ansible: User module and Password hashing

Ansible user module is used to create and manage the user access majorly in Unix servers. Below is an example of the ansible task in playbook shows usage of the ansible user module. tasks: – name: create new user    user:          name:           deployer          password:  anspassword          shell:            /bin/bash…
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Configuring Azure DevOps Server Proxy

In this blog we will discuss about the Azure DevOps Proxy Server. Azure DevOps Server Proxy distributes popular version control files from its cache at remote sites. By configuring Azure DevOps Server Proxy, you can reduce the bandwidth connectivity needed across the globe. Its purpose is to download TFVC files…
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Source Code Management Tool – GIT (version control)

  This blog is all about discussing the tool which is highly used in IT sector as source code management tool and version control kit that is git. Git tool is highly used because of its light weight and its high efficiency for the duplication of the source code into various branches   The git is known as…
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DevOpSmartBoard – Azure Pipelines

In this blog we will discuss about Azure Pipelines report. This report provides the details of build and release pipeline results across projects that is at the Azure DevOps Organization level, over a certain duration. I can select the Azure DevOps Organization and the duration and choose Build from the…
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DevOpSmartBoard- Multiple Team Capacity

In this blog we will discuss about Multiple Team Capacity reports. This one also is the most demanded report that have been asked by Azure DevOps customer from a long time. Sprint and Capacity Planning is a most sought out feature of Azure DevOps by project managers and companies following…
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Key Metrics to Measure DevOps Success

DevOps words means many things to many people and all the definitions might be partly right. DevOps is all about continuously seeking feedback, understanding challenges, and improving the way the software is development, deployed and consumed by end-user. To measure how we are fairing on the DevOps success journey few…
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Bulk Export Import Test Cases to Azure DevOps Test Plans using CSV file

As a user of Azure DevOps Test Plans or TFS Test Management for manual testing, from a long time everyone including me had a wish, that copy of test cases from excel or csv file along with test steps to Azure DevOps/TFS should be provided. Now that wait is over…
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Azure DevOps Overview

Now a days Azure DevOps is very famous with IT and Operations team along with developers, so what is Azure DevOps? It is a Software as a service (SaaS) platform from Microsoft that provides features right from project management to version control to orchestrating CI CD and test management. It…
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Volume management in Kubernetes

Since pods created in k8s are ephemeral, we are able to get the data as long as pods are alive, but if pods are terminated data stored in it completely lost and it cannot get back, for that we need to mount a volume to write the data into that…
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DevOpSmartBoard Organization Dashboard Overview

DevOpSmartBoard -The Ultimate End-To-End and One Stop Dashboard solution for all the reporting needs in Azure DevOps at organization and project level. DevOpSmartBoard is currently in preview and has the following reports available: DevOps Organization and project level metrics Query work items with various combination of filters and export to…
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Accelerating Digital Transformation with GitHub

Hi all, in this blog I would like to share few insights on how you can leverage GitHub for your development platform inspired by the way you work. Many people come to GitHub because they want to contribute to open source 📖 projects, or they're invited by teammates or classmates…
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Introduction to DevOpSmartBoard

Azure DevOps is very famous devops platform in the current market. Azure DevOps provides end to end project management, version control, build & release pipelines along with dashboards. But the limitations with built-in dashboards is that we can see the details at the project level, but not at the organization…
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Deploy .NET application on IIS using GitHub actions

In this blog I will be showing how to deploy a .net application on IIS server (self-hosted runner). Once the web application is developed and ready to be made available to the user. To enable the user to access the application, the web application needs to be deployed on a…
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Database deployment using GitHub Actions

In this blog, I will be showing how to export the database file from SQL Server and import the same in another SQL server. When we do the export, we will be having 2 different file formats i.e DACPAC and BACPAC. The major difference between is DACPAC copies only schema…
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Maven’s Project Object Model

Maven’s POM.xml – A file to build Projects In the previous article i.e. ‘Apache Maven – A tool to build Artifacts’, we explored Apache Maven like what is Maven? Maven Repositories and Maven Build Lifecycle and Phases. So, moving further, here we will discuss more in detail about the POM.xml…
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Apache Maven – A tool to build Artifacts

Apache Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage a project's build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information. Using Maven, we can build and manage any Java based project. Maven software is used…
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VMSS deployment Using Custom VM Image

In this blog we will see the VMSS update by using an image with Rolling upgrade policy. Prerequisites: Create a VM image in the portal to update the VMSS with that image. VMSS needs to be created with the custom image. Step 1 Creation of VM image to be used…
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Ansible Playbooks

Playbooks are nothing but files consisting of your written code, and they are written in YAML language, which defines the tasks and executes them through the Ansible. Playbooks may include one or more plays. Plays defines a set of activities or tasks to be run on hosts of inventory file…
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