Marcus' Blog

Earlier this year I decided to create some Visual Studio Marketplace build extensions. I was re-using the same tasks in multiple build definitions and there wasn’t anything published to the marketplace that accomplished what I needed. The first extension I created is used to upload files to AWS S3; this... [Read More]

On March 29th, 2017 the VSTS team released a new feature that added the ability to specify conditions for running a build task. This provides more control over your build tasks, for things such as a task to clean things up (even if a build fails), or send a message... [Read More]

Last month I migrated our TFS collection to VSTS using Microsoft’s Database Import Service and migration guide. To be frank, it was a long process and it took a lot of going back and forth to make sure I fully understood the guide which is a PDF that is 58... [Read More]

Update: Unlimited private pipelines are now free for Build!! [Read More]

When I first got started with Octopus Deploy I would setup projects to have one long deploy process that ran steps in serial. Each step would wait until finished before another one would start. Deploy times got longer and longer, so I set out to find a way to cut... [Read More]