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How to have multiple git repos in an Azure DevOps project?
Following works for me:
Click on your Project and then [Repos] in the left hand menu.
Along the top, you'll see the bread-crumbs: Organization / Project / Repos / Files / {NameOfCurrentRepo}
Click ...
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How can I experiment with Cloud (Azure, AWS, Google, etc) without going broke?
The three major cloud platforms you mentioned have either free trials or a free tier; these all include spending and resource caps which prevent you from spending more than your free trial allows:
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On Azure, how do I run a short-lived Docker container on a schedule?
Azure Container Instances
(ACI) may be a good option as you suggest. These let you run a container directly on Azure, without having to manage a VM, with per-second billing for the time the container ...
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How can I experiment with Cloud (Azure, AWS, Google, etc) without going broke?
Emulate the cloud on your own hardware
Doing anything substantial with the free tier is challenging. But you probably have some hardware lying around that you can build your own minicloud on. If you ...
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Azure - Connection String in Key Vault vs Application Settings
The benefits as I see them are the general reasons to use Azure Key Vault
Secrets are centrally stored with options for authorization, auditing, etc.
Azure can be scripted to update the secrets on a ...
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How to use tags in Amazon Web Services and Azure
I would set up a base taxonomy to start with, you can use automation across your estate to ensure that all resources follow the taxonomy. You have a choice between simply deleting resources that don'...
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Separate SQL Server or just separate SQL Database for test and production?
Go with a separate logical server:
It is going to cost the same because you are charged on the tier of the database not the database server.
By providing separate servers you provide isolation ...
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Memory being abruptly freed up every day at about the same time
I think have found out why this graph looks like this.
I am also gathering metrics for the ASP.NET Applications / Errors Total performance counter, and I have noticed that exactly at the same time ...
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Memory being abruptly freed up every day at about the same time
I've seen this same "sawtooth" pattern in other systems, in particular a Java-based data tool. Based on your description, I think you're looking at .NET garbage collection (assuming this is a .NET ...
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Need a folder, always updated with the latest code from Git
Use a Git post-receive hook to issue a git pull in the directory you want to keep updated. You might want to mount the directory you want to keep updated locally to the Git server, or execute that ...
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How can I experiment with Cloud (Azure, AWS, Google, etc) without going broke?
There are quite a few services that offer 'free tiers' of some description to help new developers get started with a cloud platform without the cost you've mentioned.
AWS have quite a generous free ...
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Separate SQL Server or just separate SQL Database for test and production?
Putting them both on the same server is certainly the easiest. However, I'd argue in a business situation you shouldn't be able to do it.
A production database is one of the most important resources ...
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Is Azure's confidential computing essentially encrypted RAM?
The article you are referencing mentions encrypted RAM but that was only a reference to possibilities of enhancing the technology more in the future, not about the current state of confidential ...
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Terraform | The "count" object can be used only in "resource" and "data" blocks,
The resource "azurerm_network_interface_backend_address_pool_association" "network_interface" block doesn't have the count argument set, so count.index is not meaningful in that block.
Given the ...
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On Azure, how do I run a short-lived Docker container on a schedule?
For an alternative approach, I would investigate Azure functions:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/functions-overview
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/...
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Azure Equivalent for CodeDeploy
Azure has a robust CI/CD pipeline which is much easier to use than CodeDeploy on AWS. It is called Build/Release pipelines under Azure DevOps. It allows you to configure multiple environments with ...
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Reading two Repos in Azure Build pipeline
I also use the classic editor, and I have implemented this for our builds. My use case was that I have a set of common set of build/release scripts stored in their own repository, and I want the ...
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Need a folder, always updated with the latest code from Git
The standard pattern for this is to have a build that is triggered upon change to the git repository. The build will do nothing more than checkout the repository and make an archive of everything but ...
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Azure Powershell DSC or Ansible
PowerShell Desired State Configuration:
Pro's
Great support for Microsoft Technologies (IIS, Exchange, SharePoint, etc.)
Con's
OS and PowerShell Version requirements can become prohibitive.
WinRM ...
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Azure DevOps service connection: lifetime of service principal
I will try to elaborate a lite about those topics.
When secret expires and you got error, you have to refresh connection. Go to Edit dialog for connection and save without any changes. Described here:...
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Azure - Connection String in Key Vault vs Application Settings
I have the same opinion as you, I see no point in using the Key Vault in such scenarios.
Instead I utilize Azure App Configuration https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-app-configuration/...
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availability calculation of a azure service fabric stateful application
Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSSs) don't have a SLA of their own:
Virtual Machine Scale Sets is a free service, therefore, it does not have a financially backed SLA itself. However, if the Virtual ...
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In the HashiCorp stack, where's the appropriate place to add users?
I am less familiar with what Azure offers, but other cloud providers offer a way to manage users external to the VMs the provide (normally IAM permissions).
I would not bake user into the system but ...
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In the HashiCorp stack, where's the appropriate place to add users?
I would agree with previous statements: avoid baking users into your base image with Packer. Likewise, you should avoid baking them with Terraform as well. Terraform does not provide a mechanism to ...
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Can I run Chef/Puppet server from Azure and manage my on-premise infrastructure?
The prerequisites for a chef server are here and common to any installation.
You only need to allow https to port 443 from your inner infrastructure to the cloud server.
If you have a proxy with SSL ...
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docker compose & azure key vault - passing secrets to a container on startup
Found this --> Passing secrets to a Docker container
Environment variables appear the preferred method - will need to run a prebuild script to fetch the secrets and then follow this
https://docs....
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Can't get either Postgres permissions or PVC working in AKS
The following setup works for me. When using the subPath in volumeMounts, the permission issue is automatically addressed, as the user postgres owns the folder corresponding to the subPath.
spec:
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Cloud agnostic infrastructure automation better than terraform?
There are no "agnostic" products due to the dramatic differences of the design of the Cloud Services provided by different companies.
My best recommendation is to write your code to support the ...
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Azure Pipelines: Exclude folders using Azure App Service Deploy
As @yang-shen-msft notes on Stack Overflow, there doesn't appear to be a way to honor the MSDeploySkipRules defined in the csproj file. Instead, files and folders can be skipped by defining the ...
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Kibana slow performance optimization
So basically I've ended up turning these flags off (/app/management/kibana/settings)
filterEditor:suggestValues
discover:searchOnPageLoad
doc_table:highlight
visualize:enableLabs
telemetry:enabled
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