When you are running SonarQube on-premise, it is most likely that you want to use a self-signed certificate to keep the tool secured. Unfortunately, SonarQube is a Java based application, so getting it up and running is not as straight-forward as expected. In my case, after configuring SQ for HTTPS, the SonarQube extension for Azure…
Clean JSON output for ConvertTo-Json
PowerShell 5.1 has nice cmdlet called ConvertTo-Json that converts objects to JSON syntax. Unfortunately, this conversion isn’t very clean. It contains tons of extra white space and querying JSON is not possible for most of the tools including PowerShell. PowerShell-Core 7 received a major update on cmdlet. It actually converts objects into clean JSON code.…
Verify Invoke-WebRequest statuscode 404 with Pester
A 404 result coming from an Invoke-WebRequest is usually a bad thing. This time, however, the 404 is a result I actually hoped to see. I am creating a custom Azure Devops extension that talks with the API of VMWare VRealize 8. The extension allows users to create a new resources such as a VM…