Author: Canarys

  • Authenticating as a GitHub App in a GitHub Actions workflow

    GitHub Apps: GitHub Apps are first-class actors within GitHub. A GitHub App acts on its own behalf, taking actions via the API directly using its own identity, which means you don’t need to maintain a bot or service account as a separate user. If you don’t need to perform actions on behalf of a user,…

  • DevOpSmartBoard – User Capacity

    What is User Capacity: Capacity is the amount of time a team member has to work on the requirement in each sprint. It is important to capture each team member’s expected capacity so you can assign work in sprint planning. Capacity considers a team’s or individual user’s holidays as well as the variation in work…

  • DevOpSmartBoard – Org Level Reports Part 1

    Org Level Reports: The Org Level Reports is one of the features in the DevOpSmartBoard which gives you an overview of all the projects and data in your organization. There are several sub-features within the Org Level Reports, which are listed below. 1. Org Overview 2. All Project Details 3. Query Work Items 4. Userlist…

  • DevOpSmartBoard – Multiple Team Capacity

    DevOpsSmartBoard – Multiple Team Capacity The capacity tool in azure DevOps sprint capacity helps you make sure your team isn’t over or under committed for the sprint. Sprint capacity time is calculated either in hours or days. Capacity takes into consideration the variation in work hours by team members. It also considers holidays, vacation days,…

  • DevOpSmartBoard – Subscribers

    DevOpSmartBoard – Subscribers 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 excel ·         User Audit: count of User licenses…

  • .Net Framework to .NET (.Net Core) Migration

    In this article, we will discuss about the things we should consider when migrating code from .NET Framework to .NET. The Migration of project from .NET Framework to .NET is relatively a straightforward task but the complexity of the project determines how much effort is involved after the initial migration. Applications which are created on…

  • .Net Framework to .NET (.Net Core) Migration

    In this article, we will discuss about the things we should consider when migrating code from .NET Framework to .NET. The Migration of project from .NET Framework to .NET is relatively a straightforward task but the complexity of the project determines how much effort is involved after the initial migration.Applications which are created on .NET…

  • Supercharging GitHub Actions with Job Summaries and Pull Request comments

    Job Summaries A new feature on GitHub allows you to write job descriptions for your actions. It enables you to produce markdown as part of your workflow, render it as an output of the run in the GitHub UI, and publish it as a job summary. Custom Markdown content can be used for a wide…

  • 9 Easy Steps to Create a Custom Docker File

    As it is the time of cloud technology, and everyone is interested in knowing how these cloud will work. There are mainly categorized the cloud into 3 types namely: Iaas (Infrastructure as a Service), Paas (Platform as a Service) and SaaS (Software as a Service). Out of these 3 categories let’s talk about PaaS with…

  • Capabilities of Dependabot in GitHub with Azure Artifacts

    In GitHub, while you can see a list of packages the organization level, the packages are installed to a specific repository. We can see here the instructions for pushing various package ecosystems to GitHub npm, NuGet, Maven, Docker. In case you are storing artifacts/packages in Azure Artifacts, Dependabot also supports private feeds, including Azure Artifacts.…