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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.  …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

  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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The COVID-19 pandemic has been unprecedented, and the entire IT industry has been forced to rethink and innovate practices to ensure continued support for critical operations and delivering quality software. Due to the social distancing norms, the teams are now forced to work remotely either from homes or remote offices…

An ansible ad-hoc command is a one-line command that lets you perform basic tasks efficiently without writing playbooks. An Ansible ad-hoc command uses ansible command-line tool to automate a single task on one or more managed nodes. Ad-hoc commands are quick and easy, but they are not reusable. Ad-hoc commands demonstrate the simplicity and power of Ansible. …

Ansible is an open source, IT automation tool. It can configure systems, deploy software, and orchestrate more advanced IT tasks such as continuous deployments or zero downtime rolling updates. In this article, we’ll now discuss ansible architecture and the difference between push-based vs pull based as well. Let's begin by…

Version control system is a repository of files, often the files for the source code of computer programs with monitored access. They are essential for any form of distributed, collaborative development. Whether it is the history of wiki page or the large program software firm. Importance of version control systems:…

Sonatype Nexus supports the Repository Manager integration with various active directory systems for authentication, such as Microsoft Exchange / Active Directory, OpenLDAP, ApacheDS, and others. In order to use LDAP authentication in the nexus repository manager, we will need to add the LDAP Authentication Realm by navigating to the realms…

Stateful sets are similar to deployments, they can scale up and scale down, they can perform rolling updates etc. All most it performs similar functions like replica sets and deployment sets. but there some difference as well, in stateful sets pods are created in a sequential order, that means when…

In the previous blog we would have seen what GitHub is, who started this project and how it evolved over time. We discussed about how it is different from Git, even though GitHub is created from Git, it provides lot of other functionalities for carry out DevOps practices. We also…

If you want to access the SonarQube server with LDAP credentials (i.e. with Active Directory Credentials), we need to integrate the SonarQube with LDAP servers. Now, in this article we will discuss the integration process of LDAP with SonarQube. We need to install an LDAP plugin for integration process. This…