Easy guide on how to get started with Azure Pipeline Templates — There’s always that situation where we need to use the same elements, or code, in several places and we want to avoid copying and pasting those elements everywhere because we like to keep it DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself). …

Tools for Azure Pipelines to have a more secure development process — Shifting-left security is applying security validations to our software development process as soon as possible. Let’s say we have a development process with different steps that run from left to right consecutively. Those steps are: writing the code, creating a build, releasing it to a QA environment, releasing it to…

Different ways to access Key Vault secrets in Azure Pipelines. — Using Key Vault secrets to store sensitive data is essential to keep it safe. By using secrets we can control who has access to see and manipulate the data stored in them, making sure only the correct people have the appropriate level of access. It is very common to have…

A detailed guide with screenshots. — Static code analysis is very useful to detect security issues and bad code practices in our projects. SonarCloud is a great static code analysis tool that can be easily integrated into Azure DevOps. It can be used for free in public Azure DevOps projects. Without further ado, let’s get started. …

A detailed guide with two real-life examples. — If you are reading this post, you probably are in a situation where you have to use Terraform to manage your cloud infrastructure. But there are existing resources, not created using Terraform, that need to be managed by it. I will show you how to sync your Terraform state with…

A beginner's guide. — Using environment variables with Terraform is very easy, but if you are a beginner at it then it can be a little bit tricky. Using them as input variables is fairly simple and the documentation, blogs, and other sources I found online were pretty useful. However, implementing environment variables that…

A guide with detailed steps and screenshots. — Containerized apps have been on everyone’s lips for a while now, and it’s no surprise, they can be very useful. This article will show you how to build and deploy your Dockerized app seamlessly into an Azure App Service. For this guide I have created a demo environment where the…

An honest comparison based on experience. — Classic pipelines are set up using a UI and clicking around, moving through tabs, and choosing between the options the UI shows you. The same definition applies to release pipelines, the difference is that the former are used generally to build applications and the latter to deploy them. On the…