ALM | DevOps Rangers
Providing practical guidance, experience, and gap-filling solutions to the developer community.
VSTS Bot is now in Preview
I am happy to announce that starting from today I will be available as preview and the code is now...
Author: J. Opdam Date: 10/12/2017
Azure Functions – Integrating monitoring with Application Insights
In this last part of the series of blog posts on using Azure Function, we will introduce how we...
Author: mikaelkrief Date: 10/10/2017
Empowering the community with our OSS projects
If you’re following our continuous transformation to Agile practices and DevOps, you’ll realize that...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 10/05/2017
Azure Functions – CI / CD DevOps Pipeline
In earlier parts of our Function Azure blog post series, we outlined the implementation of different...
Author: mikaelkrief Date: 10/04/2017
Roll-up your backlog board on your dashboards
We’re pleased to announce the latest version of the Roll-up Board Widget, created by Mikael Krief,...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 09/29/2017
Azure Function - Integration tests automation
In this third post on the Azure Function blog post series, we discuss topic that is often forgotten...
Author: mikaelkrief Date: 09/24/2017
Our September champion is Jeffrey Opdam, for his passion for the VSTS–Bot
We are pleased to introduce Jeffrey Opdam in our series of posts to recognise the champs of the...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 09/21/2017
How do I report an extension issue effectively?
We’re all installing and evaluating extensions from the marketplace and often run into an issue that...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 09/19/2017
Please uninstall our deprecated extensions!
Are you using one of these [partially] deprecated extensions from the marketplace? Revisions:...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 09/18/2017
Why we’re using AWS, not Azure, to store our OSS releases
We’ve received the question “why are you storing your releases on AWS and not on Azure” for...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 09/14/2017
Azure Function - Provisioning and configuring our Azure Function infrastructure
In our earlier article, Azure Functions - Prepare for continuous delivery, we began our series of...
Author: mikaelkrief Date: 09/12/2017
Azure Functions - Prepare for continuous delivery
As part of our research of using Feature Flags with VSTS extensions, we exposed our secure VSTS...
Author: mikaelkrief Date: 09/06/2017
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Jesse Powell
Who are you? I have been with Microsoft for 11 years, all of them with Microsoft Consulting...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 09/01/2017
Deprecating our Folder Management extension
The Folder Management extension was one of the first extensions we published on the marketplace,...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/31/2017
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Lia Keston
Who are you? I’m a Consultant in the Modern Apps Domain (Joint DOD space) and I’ve been in Software...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/28/2017
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Henry Been
Who are you?My name is Henry Been, an architect at SnelStart Software. I am responsible for working...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/28/2017
How Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) makes an enterprise agile
To run a business successful a company actually needs to master two things in particular: "Doing the...
Author: joweibel Date: 08/21/2017
Our journey of a continuous transformation to a DevOps culture
In 2015, the ALM Rangers moved from a traditional organization to self-organizing teams and embraced...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/17/2017
Resolution for WhiteSource “Unhandled: error is not defined” and “where’s my project” issues in our CI/CD pipelines
One of the pipeline we’re fine-tuning as outlined in the manage your open source usage and security...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/15/2017
Building VSTS Extensions with feature flags – Part 3
We shared possible scenarios for using feature flags in part 1 of our research. Part 2 focused on...
Author: mikaelkrief Date: 08/10/2017
Meet your hidden enemy- FOBO
Containers, Scala, CI/CD, Nomad, Immutable servers, Microservices, Kafka, Prometheus, ELK,...
Author: Shmulik Ahituv Date: 07/28/2017
Building VSTS Extensions with feature flags – Part 2
In Building VSTS Extensions with feature flags we started a discussion about feature flags and how...
Author: mikaelkrief Date: 07/18/2017
Our June champion is Edward Fry, for his passionate analysis of our transition
We are pleased to introduce Edward Fry in our series of posts to recognise the champs of the Ranger...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/12/2017
A really COOL feature we noticed on VSTS – New Release Definition Editor
The feature was introduced in New Release Definition Editor in Team Services. It’s therefore not...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/05/2017
Building VSTS Extensions with feature flags
We started talking about features flags (or features toggles) in our Software Development with...
Author: mikaelkrief Date: 06/27/2017
Visualize the health of your CI/CD pipelines
The latest Team Project Health v1.2 extension, created by Wouter de Kort, Jakob Ehn, Utkarsh...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/20/2017
Help us refine our extensibility focus and energy from gap filling to enablement
To ensure that we deliver value, we’re continuously adapting our focus and strategy. We’re reviewing...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/15/2017
What is in the latest releases of the VSTS extension generator?
We’re pleased to announce another update for the yeoman generator-team-services-extension,...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/14/2017
Manage your open source usage and security as reported by your CI/CD pipeline
In the article Manage your open source usage and security in your pipeline, we introduced you to...
Author: Jeff Bramwell Date: 06/08/2017
How to integrate Application Insights monitoring in your VSTS extension
Monitoring your team services extension is an important DevOps practice. In this article we’ll...
Author: mikaelkrief Date: 05/30/2017
How to create or upgrade your VSTS extension in 4 steps
My contribution to the Yeoman generator for the VSTS extension project helped me improve the way we...
Author: mikaelkrief Date: 05/29/2017
Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Champion of Champions 2017 award
We are pleased to announce the nominees and winner of the Champion of Champions Award 2017, selected...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/27/2017
Our April champion is Mikael Krief, for his tenacity and passion with the generator-vsts-extension
We are pleased to introduce Mikael Krief in our series of posts to recognise the champs of the...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/21/2017
Debug Yeoman team-services-extension in 5 steps
I recently ran into a bug while trying team-services-extension yeoman generator on macOS. The bug...
Author: Hosam Kamel Date: 05/14/2017
Setup a CI/CD pipeline with package management for your VSTS extension
In recent posts we covered our CI/CD pipelines for the Yeoman generator package, for simple...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 04/30/2017
Where can I find the Visual Studio ALM Ranger bits? Bookmark one URL!
If you are reading this post you’re already in the right place! We’re often asked by users where...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 04/26/2017
Breakpoint Generator extension is open source
As requested by the community, we open sourced the Breakpoint Generator after an update to support...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 04/25/2017
Set up a CI/CD pipeline with unit testing and code coverage for your VSTS extension
We receive a notification that there’s a pull request to review for our Team Services extensibility...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 04/24/2017
What we delivered in latest releases of the VSTS extension generator
We’re pleased to announce another update for the yeoman team-services-extension, delivering new...
Author: mikaelkrief Date: 04/23/2017
Introducing the ALM | DevOps Rangers – VSTS Bot
Who are you? Hi, I am the VSTS Bot. I am the newest member of the ALM | DevOps Ranger community. I...
Author: J. Opdam Date: 04/21/2017
Set up a CI/CD pipeline to run automated tests efficiently
Are you planning to implement automated testing in your pipeline? You probably have a few questions,...
Author: Chris Boretos Date: 04/20/2017
Set up a CI/CD pipeline for your VSTS extension
We receive a notification that there’s a pull request to review for our Team Services extensibility...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 04/17/2017
Set up a CI/CD pipeline for your Yeoman generator package
We receive a notification that there’s a pull request to review on our Yeoman generator project. We...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 04/12/2017
How to implement feature flags and A|B testing
Finally, continuous integration, testing, and delivery are part of your organization’s engineering...
Author: Shmulik Ahituv Date: 04/04/2017
Roadmap for the generator-vsts-extension
We have a lot of innovation in store for the generator-team-services-extension and are open to...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 03/29/2017
Why we broke generator-vsts-ext and created generator-team-services-extension
If you were excited by Generate Team Services extension starter kit with the Yeoman generator...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 03/27/2017
Authoring our guidance in the open … valuable? … will you engage with authors?
In June 2015 we entered the world of open source solutions, when we published the...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 03/26/2017
Generate Team Services extension starter kit with the Yeoman generator VSTS-EXT
We’ve been developing extensions for the Visual Studio Marketplace for a while. An observation we’ve...
Author: mikaelkrief Date: 03/16/2017
Team Services extensions update + a call for your help!
This week we deployed a number of updates, including Show Area Path Dependencies v1.2.8, Team...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 03/10/2017