Controlling Azure DevOps from PowerShell

When using Azure DevOps frequently, a moment will come at which you’ll be faster executing a task using script rather than clicking your way through… There are a lot of reasons on why you should code repeating work, including:

• Repeatability
• Knowledge sharing (provided that you store the code in Version Control, accessible to your coworkers)
• It’s fast

Today there are lots of possibilities and in this blogpost I’ll explain you how to use Az DevOps from PowerShell.

Microsoft Techdays 2015 – Azure Deployment Pipeline in 25 minutes

This year I’m a speaker at the Dutch Microsoft TechDays conference. I have two sessions (of 25 mins each) in which I talk about DevOps related topics.

The blogpost about the first session can be found here.

In this second session I show the audience that in a short amount of time and with very little effort, a deployment pipeline can be setup only using Azure VM’s, Visual Studio Online and Microsoft Release Management (connected to Visual Studio Online). Even one of the two Azure VM’s I need are created during the session.

Microsoft Techdays 2015 – Getting started with PowerShell for Release Management

This year I’m a speaker at the Dutch Microsoft TechDays conference. I have two sessions (of 25 mins each) in which I talk about DevOps related topics. The first one is “Getting started with PowerShell for Release Management”. It is a session which is actually targeted at Developers who are not yet familiar with PowerShell. PowerShell gets more and more important in a world where the boundaries between classic Development and Operations silos disappear. Developers will need to be more aware about the way their stuff needs to be deployed and Operations engineers need to cooperate with developers in order to provide an environment which works flawlessly.