Dedicating and entire virtual machine (VM) to an agent might be costly and give you control on a lot of layers that you do not care about. For example, you need to keep the operating system (OS) up-to-date. To reduce costs and operational efforts, we can configure an Azure Container…

Since the beginning of the COVID-19, many businesses have had to quickly find new ways to allow their employees to work remotely by developing new applications to help their workers continue their daily duties and be productive. This business needs lead to an increase in the demand for the Microsoft…

In my previous article, we provisioned and configured all the resources needed to implement our flow. In today’s article, I will guide you through implementation of the GitHub branching strategy using GitHub branch protection rules. …

This series of articles is all about implementing a zero-deployment strategy using GitHub and Azure. In this first article, we’re going to prepare the various components we will need throughout the series. We will create the Azure resources using Terraform, then configure our GitHub self-hosted runner.

A main focus of modern businesses is the ability to rapidly publish changes to the application and make them available to customers. To achieve this, many have adopted approaches, like continuous deployment, that remove eventual bottleneck represented by manual intervention by automating the entire release cycle, from build, to test…

Containers are increasingly becoming the preferred way to package, deploy, and manage cloud applications and Microsoft Azure offers many options to work with containers. For example, you can use the Azure Container Registry to store and manage your private container images. Azure Container Instances or Azure App Services can be…

Team collaboration is critical in software development. However, while team collaboration increases both development speed and quality, it may lead to some challenges when it comes to automation. …