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Using variables to dynamically check out a repository using a specific branch or tag in Azure DevOps Pipelines

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In Azure DevOps pipeline, you might want to check out a repository using a specific branch or tag, in this blog post – I am going to show how you can use variables to dynamically achieve this! Why dynamic? My thought on creating pipelines is that I usually want it to be as dynamic as … Read more

Deploying a container image to Azure Container Registry using a GitHub Action with Azure CLI

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Screenshot from Azure Container Registry (ACR) showing the sampleapp repository with two image tags. The image highlights the repository details, including the listed tags and their associated images

Storing your application container images in Azure Container Registry(ACR)? In this blog post, I am going to show how you can deploy a new container image to ACR automatically using a GitHub Action when there has been a merge to the main branch in GitHub GitHub Repository Secrets To start, we need to create two … Read more

DevOps the hard way in Azure

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Wanting to understand how to use DevOps technologies and practices for deploying apps and cloud infrastructure to Azure? I’ve created a tutorial based on this! This tutorial contains a full, real-world solution for setting up an environment that is using DevOps technologies and practices for deploying apps and cloud services/cloud infrastructure to Azure. It is … Read more

Get Public IP address of Azure DevOps hosted agent and Github-hosted runner

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Wanting to know the specific Public IP address of an Azure DevOps hosted agent or GitHub-hosted runner? In this blog post I am going to show examples of how to retrieve each using bash within Azure DevOps Pipelines and GitHub Workflows. This sort of requirement is useful if the agent or runner requires access that … Read more

Deploying Azure Bicep using GitHub Actions

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Using Azure Bicep and want to deploy your Bicep configuration to Azure using GitHub Actions, in this blog post I am going to show how you can achieve this! What is Azure Bicep? Its the Next Generation of ARM templates – Bicep is a Domain Specific Language (DSL) for ARM templates. Taken from the documentation:- … Read more

Deploy Terraform using GitHub Actions to Azure

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Using Terraform to deploy your Azure resources is becoming more and more popular; in some instances overtaking the use of ARM to deploy into Azure. I will show you in this blog how you can deploy your Azure Resources created in Terraform using GitHub Actions. You may have saw my post previously Deploy Terraform using … Read more