Choosing Right Size for Windows 10 VM in Azure to Run Docker

The post “Setup Windows 10 VM in Azure to Develop with Docker CE” has a detailed walkthrough on setting up Docker CE in Azure VM, which is using Windows 10. While trying out the same, encountered an issue to start the Docker giving error message “Failed to start the virtual machine 'MobyLinuxVM' because one of the Hyper-V components is not running. 'MobyLinuxVM' failed to start.” It is interesting to inspect and find a fix to this issue.

Custom Control Conditions in Azure DevOps Pipeline Steps

Azure DevOps pipelines support default conditions allowing you to execute a step “Only when all previous tasks have succeeded”, “Even if a previous task has failed, unless the build was canceled”, “Even if a previous task has failed, even if the build was canceled” or “Only when a previous task has failed”. These conditions facilitate execution of  steps in a build or release pipeline to cater different scenarios. However, to support scenarios not covered by the default conditions you can implement custom control conditions in Azure DevOps pipeline steps. There is a good explanation of custom conditions in this article. Let’s explore two advance scenarios that can be handled with custom conditions, which are not explained in the article.