Azure DevOps - Task output to a variable

I’ve been building a couple of Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI / CD) pipelines on Azure DevOps lately.

Azure DevOps is formerly known as Visual Studio Team Service (VSTS). As I mentioned recently, VSTS had nothing to do with Visual Studio and we’re very happy with the new brand name.

With...

Authoring a Helm Chart on Kubernetes / AKS - Parametrized values

In the last article, we authored a very simple chart.

In this article I want to show how to use one of the powerful features of Helm: values.

Values act as parameters to a chart.

Having parameters is key for dev ops as we want to deploy the same chart to different...

Authoring a Helm Chart on Kubernetes / AKS - Getting started

As we discussed in our last article, Helm is a great technology. I recommend using it not only to manage third party packages but also your own custom-developed solutions.

But how do you author a Helm Chart?

I found that question hard to answer. The common answer is “look at existing ones”....

5 reasons to use Helm charts in Kubernetes

Kubernetes is a big platform to absorb. It has a rich resource & networking model. In many ways it is a miniature version of a fully fledge cloud provider, abstracting the underlying cloud provider.

That is my excuse for postponing addressing Helm for such a long time. Until today.

I’ll look...

Azure Dev Ops CI / CD pipelines with AKS - Lessons learned

I have this personal project where I have a swag of micro services collaborating to serve different web applications.

I started to work on the Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI / CD) using Azure DevOps.

I did toy around those areas before. But this was really a rubber hits the road experience...