Azure Pipelines - Gareth Emslie's Blog

Empowering developer teams to manage their own Azure RBAC permissions in highly regulated industries

Many highly regulated enterprises are looking to leverage the public cloud for the many benefits that it provides. Some examples are to increase agility of their developer teams, improve compliance and security & reduce costs. Unfortunately, what usually happens is that their developer teams end up with partial autonomy, for

Azure DevOps

Engineering Compliant Azure Shared Image Gallery Images and sharing them across multiple Azure Active Directory Tenants

The Azure Shared Image Gallery service is an excellent service for globally distributing images for use in Azure across your organization. There are several ways which you can use to build & publish these images to your Azure Shared Image Gallery. Azure Image Builder (PREVIEW) - the service is built

Azure Pipelines

Options for storing Azure Pipelines YAML files

This blog post is part of a series of posts covering the Challenges adopting the Azure DevOps SaaS offering in highly regulated industries. The first post covered the connectivity challenges experienced by some the enterprises which I have worked with. In subsequent posts we then went on to explore some

Highly Regulated

Triggering Azure Pipelines with an offline artefact repository

This blog post is part of a series of posts covering the challenges adopting the Azure DevOps SaaS offering in highly regulated industries. The second post covered how we can leverage Azure Pipelines with an offline source repository. Make sure you go through the first two posts in this series

Azure Pipelines

Triggering Azure Pipelines with an offline source repository

This blog post is part of a series of posts covering the Challenges adopting the Azure DevOps SaaS offering in highly regulated industries. The first post covered some of the connectivity challenges experienced by some the enterprises which I have worked with, and some high-level options for mitigating these challenges.

Azure DevOps

Challenges adopting the Azure DevOps SaaS offering in highly regulated industries - Connectivity

In highly regulated industries I see that some enterprises experience challenges when adopting the Software as a Service offering of Azure DevOps. The benefits of leveraging a SaaS product are many but in this blog series I would like to address the challenges, some of which are: Requires mindset change

Azure DevOps

Performance issues when using PowerShell to download files during AzureDevops/ TFS pipeline execution

If you are using the PowerShell task together with Invoke-WebRequest or Invoke-RestMethod during your build/release on Azure DevOps or TFS you may not be getting the performance you expect. We recently experienced such an issue where downloading larger files(~40Mb) during the execution of a build on TFS was