Azure DevOps Pipelines: Templates Tasks and Jobs
Fully leveraging the power of Azure DevOps (ADO) one should evaluate how to best use templates. This post focuses on using templates for tasks and jobs. Previous posts on Azure DevOps Pipelines: Environments and Variables (microsoft.com) and Azure DevOps Pipelines: Tasks, Jobs, Stages (microsoft.com)Azure DevOps Pipelines: Practices for Scaling Templates
When starting to leverage YAML Pipelines at scale you are most likely going to gravitate towards a solution that leverages a consolidated template repository. Since we will have multiple pipelines calling the same repository it's important we get guidance on how to start and structure this new repository, so it scales with our organization and their pipeline adoption.Part 4 - Unlock the Power of Azure Data Factory: A Guide to Boosting Your Data Ingestion Process
After reading parts 1-3 on Unlock the Power of Azure Data Factory one may be left with the next steps of how to take what was provided and convert it to an enterprise scale. Terminology and expectations are key so let’s outline what we would like to see from an enterprise-scale deployment: Write once reuse across projects. Individual components can be reused. Limited manual intervention. Easily updated. Centralized definition.Azure DevOps Pipelines: Discovering the Ideal Service Connection Strategy
Embarking on the journey of deploying code into Azure through Azure DevOps brings forth a crucial question: how should your DevOps environment communicate with your Azure resources? In this in-depth exploration, we dive into the intricacies of configuring Service Connections and unravel the decision-making process surrounding their deployment.Deploying .dacpacs to Multiple Environments via ADO Pipelines
Ready to crank up your SQL deployment skills? Our latest post takes you through the next step in deploying .dacpac files across multiple environments using Azure DevOps Pipelines. We'll dive deep into creating tailored pre/post-deployment scripts for dev and test environments, configuring security with Entra groups, and using build configurations to handle different environments. If you want to elevate your database deployment process, this is the post for you. Full code is available on GitHub, so follow along and take your deployments to the next level!
