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Increasing Code Reusability Using Task Groups in Azure DevOps

Introduction

Let’s assume a scenario in which you are repeating a few tasks from your pipeline into multiple stages and/or pipelines or projects. In that case, it gets really tiring to repeat and configure each task individually over and over again. Azure DevOps provides the feature of Task Group in which we can encapsulate a sequence of tasks from our build or release pipelines and reuse those tasks in other pipelines. Continue reading “Increasing Code Reusability Using Task Groups in Azure DevOps”

Introduction to Azure Security

DevOps Security or DevSecOps is a set of practices and tools that bring together software development (Dev), IT operations (Ops), and security (Sec) to increase an organization’s ability to deliver applications and services securely. DevOps presents new risks that create security challenges that cannot typically be addressed by conventional security management solutions and practices. One of the prominent security challenges in DevOps environments is privileged access management. DevOps processes require human and machine privileged credentials which are quite powerful and highly susceptible to
cyber-attacks. So strong security practices should be inserted throughout the application lifecycle to reduce vulnerabilities, improve security posture and mitigate risk.

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How To Setup An Agent On Azure Devops

Introduction

Azure DevOps is an integrated service provided by Azure. In recent times, it is observed that Azure DevOps is increasing its penetration into the DevOps community. Being a SaaS service, it doesn’t come with a pre-configured host or better say, an agent to execute its commands. That’s why whenever we want to use our Azure DevOps Pipeline we need to have an agent configured in our Agent Pool. In this blog, we will learn how to configure an agent and later on how to create a service for our host. Continue reading “How To Setup An Agent On Azure Devops”

A Step-by-Step Guide to Integrate Azure Active Directory with Redash SAML [ SSO ]

Redash is a very popular data analytics tool that is used to visualize, explore, and query data from multiple data sources. It also provides SAML based authentication option which can be used to set up Single Sign-in [SSO] with different kinds of SAML based options. It gives flexibility to Setup SAML Based Authentication Redash because unlike Azure Active directory, there are lots of software tools that support and provide SAML support. Azure active directory also provides Azure AD SAML Toolkit option, which organizations can utilize to create SAML based authentication with Redash.

Azure Active Directory Setup

Step 1: Click on the Left top bar to get a List of options provided by Microsoft Azure.

Step 2: Click on Azure Active Directory

Step 3: Once you get all the options, Under the Manage section, you will see Enterprise applications, Click on Enterprise applications

SonarQube Integration with Azure DevOps

What is SonarQube ?

In simple words, SonarQube is an open-source tool for continuous inspection of code quality. It does static code analysis, provides a detailed report of bugs, code smells, vulnerabilities and code duplications.

SonarQube integration with Azure DevOps

We can utilize built-in Azure DevOps tasks for SonarQube which helps us to incorporate this tool into our CI/CD pipelines. We will learn that with a use case.

Lets begin 🙂