Category: Canarys

  • 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 how to create a Query.…

  • 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   But when we try…

  • 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 and Work Item attachments from…

  • 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 version control system also because…

  • 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 toggle button and then click…

  • 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 Agile or Scrum methodology, this…

  • 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 key metrics are important to…

  • 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, Microsoft has recently announced this…

  • 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 provides set of toolchains manage…

  • 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 of a pod. To do…