Category: How-to

Azure DevOps pipeline unable to checkout external repo – remote: TF401019: The Git repository with name or identifier does not exist

Mikhail | December 10, 2021

Assume the following scenario you trying to run Azure DevOps pipeline from one Azure DevOps repo and it relies on some contents in another Azure DevOps repo which specified in resources section of your YAML pipeline (for example it can be a repo which stores your master templates). You absolutely sure that your resources section … Azure DevOps pipeline unable to checkout external repo – remote: TF401019: The Git repository with name or identifier does not exist

Validating Azure DevOps YAML pipeline locally

Mikhail | November 17, 2021

Today my colleague asked me how to validate Azure pipeline without committing changes to repo and trying to run pipeline. There is a VS Code Azure Pipelines YAML Validator plugin, but it does not work for YAML files which reference template files. In this scenario (validation of YAML files which reference template files) you can … Validating Azure DevOps YAML pipeline locally

Blast from the past: Configure K2 SmartForms for AAD Authentication (4.7)

Mikhail | October 1, 2021

DISCLAIMER: This is a post which used to be published on another web site, and as it is no longer available there just re-publishing it here again. It is an old write up from summer 2017, so a lot of things surely have changed since then. In my previous article – Azure AD instance set … Blast from the past: Configure K2 SmartForms for AAD Authentication (4.7)

Unable to update Skype on Ubuntu 20.04 – GPG/signature error

Mikhail | July 20, 2021

Some time ago I’ve noticed that Skype UI on my Ubuntu machine was insisting on the need to apply updates constantly, and required message was in place in spite of running sudo apt update / sudo apt upgrade. After looking more carefully at sudo apt update output it turned out to be an issue with … Unable to update Skype on Ubuntu 20.04 – GPG/signature error

Clearing GitHub repo history

Mikhail | June 18, 2021

Sometimes one can commit a code with some (relatively) sensitive info into a public git repository. Typical first action in such scenario is to do a new commit with sensitive data removed, but one can be slow to remember that public GitHub repository has its commit history visible to everyone so irrespective of new commit … Clearing GitHub repo history