Chendrayan Venkatesan

MVP | MCTS | MCP | ITIL

Create Azure DevOps Service Connection with Certificate using REST API

Az DevOps | PowerShell | REST API

April 25, 2020

Chendrayan Venkatesan

2-Minute Read

I have no access to my organization DevOps due to unfortunate technical issues, but that didn’t stop me from working. This morning I was on a call with a business owner who asked me to show the steps to create service connections with the certificate. Yes, I have to use the OPEN SSL tool to convert the PFX to PEM, and it was a bit difficult for me to walk him through the steps remotely. So, I got the PAT and certificate from the user and started my experiment in the REST API. After a few…

How Azure DevOps REST API helped me during outage of the VPN?

Just move on!

April 18, 2020

Chendrayan Venkatesan

2-Minute Read

There is always an alternative is the apt statement to start this blog post! Yes, I got trouble in VPN and lost connection to most of our internal portal, and one among that is Azure DevOps (Formerly VSTS), where the code resides. Positively, no hindrances in accessing Outlook and Teams over mobile. All I need is to continue the work on code, work items and send status report.