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The Invisible DevOps Team: GitHub Org on Autopilot
What if your GitHub organization ran like it had a full DevOps team behind it—without anyone constantly in the loop? This article shows how service requests flow from a simple form to automated, production-ready code changes, with human involvement reduced to approvals only.
March 11th, 2026 · 3 min read
Stay Secure: Monitoring Secret Expirations with Azure Key Vault, Event Grid and Azure Monitor
This blog post provides a comprehensive guide on managing secret expirations in Azure Key Vault. It covers setting expiration dates, monitoring them with Azure Monitor and Azure Event Grid.
March 5th, 2024 · 3 min read
Simple semantic versioning method in Azure DevOps pipelines
In essence this is a simple way to use semantic versioning in Azure DevOps pipelines. The idea is to use the build number as the version…
August 28th, 2023 · 1 min read
TIP keep your build agent on standby during business hours
Extend the limitations of Azure DevOps.
November 19th, 2021 · 1 min read
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