Azure DevOps | CI - Pipeline failing on checkout

I configured CI build for every pull request, which started failing suddenly with the below sets of errors. error: cannot lock ref 'refs/remotes/origin/release': there is a non-empty directory '.git/refs/remotes/origin/release' blocking reference 'refs/remotes/origin/release' ! [new branch] release -> origin/release (unable to update local ref) ##[warning]Git fetch failed with exit code 1,...

Fix dual booting windows and ubuntu time issue

Option One: Make Linux Use Local Time To force Linux use local time should fix the issue by running below command timedatectl set-local-rtc 1 --adjust-system-clock Reference Link to read more on it

Azure Container Groups for hosting ?

Few days ago I was in need of a quick and easy option to host few containers with Azure for one of my Demos. I didn’t want to go with the headache of having an AKS or VM with docker installed. So I picked ACI ( Azure Container Instance )...

Uninstall Az Powershell Module forcefully and completely

I’m primarily using PowerShell to address Azure automation activities from running from local to Azure itself. The most painful task encountered is about upgrading PowerShell Az modules and making it work with VsCode. After many trial and error, this is the best method I could recommend to uninstall the PowerShell...

After (lot of ) Hacks - A working way to deploying Azure SQL on Virtual Machine using terraform

I am very new with terraform. I was trying out terraform to deploy an SQL VM to Azure. SQL VM in Azure has undergone many changes recently from using SqlVmIaasExtension to manage SQL VM instance to a new resource type Microsoft.SqlVirtualMachine/SqlVirtualMachines To implement the best practice of SQL, we had...