Continuous Integration

Introduction There’s always that situation where we need to use the same elements, or code, in several places and we want to avoid copying and pasting those elements everywhere because we like to keep it DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself). That’s where pipeline templates come in handy when facing this dilemma while working with Azure Pipelines. What are Pipeline Templates? Pipeline templates help us define reusable blocks that can be used across as many pipelines as we need, making maintenance easier and less prone to errors. ...

Introduction Static code analysis is very useful to detect security issues and bad code practices in our projects. SonarCloud is a great static code analysis tool that can be easily integrated into Azure DevOps. It can be used for free in public Azure DevOps projects. Without further ado, let’s get started. Assuming we already have an Azure DevOps organization and a SonarCloud account, the first step is to associate our Azure DevOps organization with SonarCloud. For this, we need to create a Personal Access Token (PAT) in Azure DevOps. ...