Protect Azure DevOps Personal Access Tokens with Conditional Access

Conditional access is a crucial security feature for protecting your organisations services from unauthorised access. However, by default, personal access tokens created in an Azure DevOps organisation are not subject to conditional access policies. In this blog post, I will explain how you can configure Azure DevOps to adhere Azure Active Directory Conditional Access Policies … Continue reading Protect Azure DevOps Personal Access Tokens with Conditional Access →

Azure Bicep validation in a pull request with Azure DevOps

In this blog I am going to write about how you can automatically validate Bicep template changes inside a pull request in Azure DevOps. This validation step can help identify errors written in a template or parameter file. These errors can be syntactical or input-based errors. The techniques used in this blog are: Azure CLI, … Continue reading Azure Bicep validation in a pull request with Azure DevOps →

Validating YAML using Azure DevOps or CLI

Working with YAML can be a struggle. It does not matter how easy or complex the task is, an error is easily made. Errors might be an illegal character in a job name or incorrect formatting. I work with YAML frequently to create or maintain CI/CD pipelines and for this post, I want to share … Continue reading Validating YAML using Azure DevOps or CLI →

Azure DevOps – Service Connection Authentication Scheme

Last week I was working on an extension for a customer. I had to build it from the ground up but ran into some issues regarding service connections while using the documentation of Microsoft. My goal was to create an extension with a token-based service connection. I have never created an extension that required a … Continue reading Azure DevOps – Service Connection Authentication Scheme →