Mark Patton is a Technical Architect at Kainos and a Microsoft Azure Certified Solutions Architect based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He shares expertise on designing, automating, and operating modern cloud platforms and digital services on Azure.
10 articles from this blog
Explains the distinct roles, responsibilities, and focus areas of Scrum Masters, Delivery Managers, and Project Managers in software development and project management.
Explores the risks and consequences of accidentally leaking secrets like API keys in code repositories, and how to prevent and respond to such leaks.
A beginner's guide to Terraform, covering its core concepts, benefits, and basic commands for managing infrastructure as code.
Explores the distinct roles of Platform Engineering and DevOps in software development, highlighting their differences and complementary nature.
Explains the core principles of DevOps, including the Three Ways, collaboration, CI/CD, and automation for efficient software delivery.
A tutorial on setting up and using GitHub Container Registry (ghcr.io) to build, tag, and publish Docker container images.
A guide to implementing secret scanning with GitLeaks in Azure DevOps pipelines to prevent accidental exposure of API keys and passwords in code repositories.
A guide on linking Azure KeyVault secrets to Azure Pipelines using Variable Groups for secure and centralized secret management.
![Error when running Docker on Windows after install [Fixed]](https://alldevblogs.blob.core.windows.net/thumbs/article-d9f768f87503-full-878f1e88.webp)
Fixes a common Docker Desktop Windows error by switching between Linux and Windows container daemons.
How to accept legal terms for Azure Marketplace VM images using Azure CLI when automating deployments.
