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Considerations when setting up a build (migration) strategy
May 18, 2021 · 11 min read · Cake Azure DevOps Azure Artifacts DevRel DevOps Microsoft Stakeholder Management ·
In previous posts, I wrote about migrating builds to TeamCity and after that back to Azure DevOps . Next to that, I talked about "setting up an Enterprise Cake build framework" and getting Cake to work in Azure DevOps (artifacts) to make those migrations easier in an enterprise context, where a lot of build pipelines …
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Running a build in Azure DevOps with Cake and Azure Artifacts
My last few posts have been about Cake build and Azure DevOps and in this post I will again talk about those 2. This time I will talk about running Cake in an Azure Pipeline and having it work with Azure Artifacts . What? Azure Artifacts Azure Artifacts can be seen as a private repository for your reusable assets …
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Automatically migrating your builds to Azure DevOps
A few weeks ago, I wrote how we migrated our build system towards TeamCity (this migration was a few years ago). If you want to know more on how we did this, then I gladly refer you to this post Today, I'm writing about the migration back to Azure DevOps. I'll explain the reasoning behind why we move back and what we …
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Extending build.cake with your (enterprise) functionality
For a few years now, I have been willing to write about this and I never really took the time. I spoke about it in a session during Visug XL 2019 and at that time, we were only getting started with Cake. Today, 1.5 years later, we have a set up a stable (unit test supported) build process that supports multiple …
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I'm in the process om migrating a whole bunch of builds from TeamCity to Azure DevOps and the entire process is automated. (I'm writing a blogpost on this, stay tuned if you are interested in this). Today, one of the builds that I'm migrating, gave me an error when I did a test. It struck me a bit as "a strange …
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A few years ago, we migrated all our builds out of practical considerations from (at the time) TFS to JetBrains TeamCity. The main reason for us was that the support for XAML based builds in TFS was about to end... The main advantage for us, when using those XAML templates was the (rather) extensive templating …
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