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Writing ARM Templates in YAML

Posted by Justin Yoo on 07 August 2018

CICD, JSON, VSTS, ARM Templates, Testing, Pester, Blog, Technology, YAML

In my previous post, ARM Template Lifecycle Management: DOs and DON’Ts, I recommend to consider YAML for ARM template authoring. In the post, I also suggest using yarm to convert YAML to JSON and/or vice-versa. However, yarm is not that easy to use because it has to be deployed to Azure or, at least, it has to be run...

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How to automate Project Build numbers in VSTS

Posted by Matt Corr on 30 November 2017

CICD, Team City, VSTS, Blog, Technology

If you have migrated over to VSTS (or TFS 2017) from TeamCity, you may have a noticed a useful feature missing.

Now VSTS defaults the build number format to a revision number in the format similar to as shown below.

So whats the problem?

This is fine if you are happy with an incrementing number across all projects....

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