A unit test is a way of testing a unit - the smallest piece of code that can be logically isolated in a system.

What about unit testing on IaC, after all it’s a code. Yes we need to write unit test cases for them as well. Pester Test help us here.

In this post I will walk you through, how you can use Pester Testing framework to write unit test cases for IaC.

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This post will help you to quickly understand SonarQube pricing and licening as part of tool assessment.

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Tool assessment is very important and one of the most critical task in DevOps. In this post I will walk you through the SonarQube code quality capabilities and how it works.

CodeQuality

Code quality management is a topic that has seen a tremendous increase of attention and demand. The increasing awareness of Technical Debt issues at all levels of the IT landscape is one of the factors at play, as well as increasing adoption of Agile techniques. Perhaps most importantly, most developers at a personal level want to develop better code, and are looking for ways to improve their output on a continual basis.

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To build your code or deploy your software you need at least one agent. As you add more code and people, you’ll eventually need more.

When your build or deployment runs, the system begins one or more jobs. An agent is installable software that runs one build or deployment job at a time.

In this post we will discuss about VSTS Build agents.

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Build and Release

As mention in previous post DevOps is a philosophy. Its a practice. DevOps philosophy talks about automation. In this post I will talk about Continuous Integration ,Continuous Delivery, Continuous deployment.

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In this post we will discuss, how to setup CD for IaC. IaC code is hosted in GitHub repo.

Before we start please refer

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Do I need to change my primary skills to learn the DevOps?

What skills I need to learn?

How to learn and where to start DevOps?

I keep hearing many questions like these. People who spent good amount of time either as Dev or Ops or Tester seems confused and worried with these questions.

I am going to start a People, Process, Product - DevOps post series, I will not explain topics/ concepts in details as it has already been written and discussed in many blogs/ sites.

I will try to provide some basic fundamentals, my learnings and at the end resource references/ links of various tools/ product which you can choose as per your technology area and interest.

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Microsoft recently announce the ability to enable backup on virtual machines from VM create experience in the portal.

Azure Backup supports backup of wide variety of VMs offered by Azure including Windows or Linux, VMs on managed or unmanaged disks, premium or standard storage, encrypted or non-encrypted VMs, or a combination of the above.

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Archive Storage General Availability

Every organization whether its startup or large enterprise across the industries have experienced exponential growth of their data. This data may include employee data, medical records, customer information, financial records, backups, etc.

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