Setting persistent user environment variables in Windows without admin privileges.

Handling JSON with the jq command line tool.

Creating an Azure DevOps Virtual Machine Scale Self-Hosted Agent Pool using the Virtual Machine Scale Set from Part 2.

Creating an Azure Virtual Machine Scale from an Azure Compute Gallery Image based on the image created in Part 1.

Creating Ubuntu 20.04 Azure DevOps Microsoft Agent Image in Azure Compute Gallery to create the same image used for Microsoft Hosted Agents.

I have always meant to start a blog but never really got round to it. Recently I was inspired to try and get things going after reading Thomas Thornton's blog site. He has lots of great content going back over a number of years in subject areas that interest me. As I have used GitHub for a while I was aware of GitHub …