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Entries from 2018-03-01 to 1 month

How to override values of environment variables on VSTS tasks

As you know VSTS can use environment variables in VSTS Build and Release tasks. It's really useful to dynamically change values of build and release process like below, but you should sometimes wants to override even in running tasks. I ha…

What is workaround when you got error message "failure in a Windows system call: No hypervisor is present on this system." on Service Fabric Explorer

As you know, we can deploy Docker Container images into Service Fabric clusters, but you need to note when you specify "Instance Size" of Service Fabric when you use Windows Container images. You will get below error messages if you don't …

How to setup VSTS Private Agent to build Windows Server ver 1709 base Docker images

Do you know Windows had breaking changes for their virtualization technologies and I referred about that in Windows Container Version Compatibility | Microsoft Docs. This change will cause an error when you will build Windows Server ver 17…

How to build ASP.NET Framework Docker images on VSTS build tasks

As you know, Visual Studio Team Services offers to build Docker image tasks and Visual Studio offers Docker support. But there are some tips when you build ASP.NET Framework Docker images with VSTS build tasks. This post shows how to setup…

What is workaround when you got error messages "There was an error during download.Failed" while downloading container images

As you know, Service Fabric is one of implementations to offer Microservice Architecture provided by Microsoft. Of course, it can be deployed Docker Images both Windows and Linux base images, but you should note "Operating System" of Servi…

How to pass values generated on VSTS processes into other build/release tasks

When you deploy templates with some linked templates, the linked templates should be stored public or limited access wtih SAS token. But this sometimes makes difficult to setup CI/CD pipeline on Visual Studio Team Service(VSTS). You can un…

How to setup simple Workflow with Azure Automation

You should read below article before following this article, because this article make a Azure Automation workflow collaborating Runbooks. normalian.hatenablog.com Azure Automation offers to collaborate with each Runbooks as Workflok, and …

How to execute Microsoft Azure PowerShell commands on Azure Automation

As you know, Azure Automation is really great feature to automate your schedulable tasks both public cloud an on-premise. There are massive documents to describe how to do that including abstraction. I will introduce how to do that simply …