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Born to Automate : November 2014

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PowerShell, Azure, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, Continuous Delivery. Sunday, November 30, 2014. DSC - Configuration delivery modes. In the configuration management life cycle in DSC, configuration delivery plays a major role. Once a configuration is authored, a delivery mode helps to enact the configuration on the target systems. These modes dictate how the configuration is enforced and corrected, as required. DSC supports two types of delivery modes: Push and Pull. The PUSH mode can be viewed as:.

Born to Automate : Managing your Azure infrastructure as code - part 3 [Chef cookbooks]

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PowerShell, Azure, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, Continuous Delivery. Saturday, May 16, 2015. Managing your Azure infrastructure as code - part 3 [Chef cookbooks]. The important concepts for a cookbook are attributes and recipes. Attributes. Creating and uploading a cookbook. To create a cookbook you can use the generate cookbook command. Login to the chef workstation and use the PowerShell console to navigate to the C: Chef directory that was created earlier and run the command. The command will creat...

Born to Automate : April 2014

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PowerShell, Azure, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, Continuous Delivery. Wednesday, April 2, 2014. DevOps - Remote test execution. Developers can configure visual studio to run tests remotely and concurrently on a configured test controller and agent groups. The architecture should consist of developer machines with VS 2013, at least one test controller with test agents. After setting the execution mode, now you can associate the tests with a controller by managing controller and agents from the settings ...

Born to Automate : June 2014

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PowerShell, Azure, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, Continuous Delivery. Friday, June 6, 2014. SharePoint 2010 - Export and import global navigation. I was working on a script to import and export Global navigation including the navigation settings for SharePoint sites. Here’s the full script. The first script exports the global navigation settings to the GlobalNavigationSettings.xml file and the navigation nodes with the hierarchy to the GlobalNavigationNodes.xml file. Adding new navigation node". Updati...

Born to Automate : April 2015

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PowerShell, Azure, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, Continuous Delivery. Tuesday, April 21, 2015. Managing your Azure infrastructure as code - part 1 (VM configuration). To list all the available worker role sizes you can use the cmdlets Get-AzureRoleSize. Get-AzureRoleSize where { $ .SupportedByVirtualMachines -eq $true } select instancesize. Choose a size from the listed options to use in the configuration. To list out the image names. VmName = “[YOUR VM NAME]”. Image = “[YOUR VM IMAGE NAME]”. Parameter...