Adding GitHub Azure Boards to Organisations

For this post, I will walk through the process of adding the ability to see repositories in GitHub Organisations to your Azure DevOps instance. When you are using Azure DevOps Boards, you have the choice of repositories to use to link your commits and pull requests back to work items you create in the Boards functionality. Adding a connection to GitHub It’s pretty easy to add your connection through to GitHub, from your project settings, simply click GitHub connections, from there you can then proceed click Connect your GitHub account....

14 May 2021 · 3 min · Martyn

Breaking Changes to GitHub Actions

While GitHub did indicate that a warning would appear that the culprit commands would in time be deprecated, this breaking change appears to have caught a number of people off guard. In my workflow for this blog I had noticed for some time that an error was displayed advising me that the set-env command in my case executed during the installation of Ruby was deprecated and soon to be disabled....

20 November 2020 · 1 min · Martyn

Deploying .NET Applications to AKS using GitHub Actions

In order to test locally, you will also need Docker Desktop installed on your machine. This should be done before you create your Visual Studio project below. To start, we need some application code. Using Visual Studio, create a new project, for this walkthrough, I will be using an ASP.NET Core Web Application, I will also be publishing my source code in GitHub, this repository is already cloned locally to my machine....

10 August 2020 · 5 min · Martyn