{"id":20321,"date":"2021-03-18T12:56:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T19:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/?p=20321"},"modified":"2021-04-14T14:31:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T21:31:44","slug":"join-us-from-code-to-ato-how-to-accelerate-deployments-in-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/join-us-from-code-to-ato-how-to-accelerate-deployments-in-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Join us: From code to ATO\u2014How to accelerate deployments in government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deploying a new government service or application involves manual work such as procuring and preparing hardware, configuring operating environments, and enabling monitoring solutions. This manual work takes time, is error-prone, and can produce inconsistencies.<\/p>\n<p>Key DevOps practices such Infrastructure as Code (IaC), continuous integration\/continuous deployment (CI\/CD) and automated testing, allow you and your team to develop and release changes much faster, with higher confidence.<\/p>\n<p>We invite you to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/DCAzureGov\/events\/276011156\/\">RSVP and join<\/a> the Azure Government user community Wednesday, March 31 from 6 \u2013 7 p.m. ET, to learn how governments use these processes to bring previously months-long implementation times down to just days\u2014securely.<\/p>\n<p>During this virtual Azure Government meetup, which is free and open to the public, you\u2019ll hear from a can\u2019t-miss speaker lineup of government and industry practitioners who will share:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Top strategies to accelerate software deployment timelines in government<\/li>\n<li>Pilot experience, outcomes, and lessons learned including with the new DoD Cloud IaC Environment for Azure<\/li>\n<li>How to better understand your cloud resources, and manage multiple environments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Speakers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eric Mixon, Computer Scientist, Engineer Research and Development Center, US Army Corps of Engineers<\/li>\n<li>Bryan McGill, Solutions Architect: Cloud Security and Compliance, Applied Information Sciences (AIS)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>About us:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Azure Government User Community was created to bring together professionals interested in learning about government innovation, especially around cloud computing technologies and capabilities. It&#8217;s open to the community and provides a non-sales environment to share best practices and learnings during monthly meetups (now virtually) that draw government and industry attendees.<\/p>\n<p>Launched in February 2016 by Karina Homme, senior director, Microsoft Azure Government, and Vishwas Lele, CTO of AIS and Microsoft Azure MVP, the Azure Government DC User Community (<a class=\"link\" title=\"www.meetup.com\/DCAzureGov\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/DCAzureGov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.meetup.com\/DCAzureGov\/<\/a>) currently comprises 3,700+ members and continues to grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn how key DevOps practices such Infrastructure as Code (IaC), continuous integration\/continuous deployment (CI\/CD) and automated testing, allow you and your team to develop and release changes much faster, with higher confidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2054,"featured_media":20324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9,14,18],"tags":[3438,65,75,95,182,248,3148,315,3435,3437,3436],"class_list":["post-20321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-azuregov","category-events","category-learning","category-meetup","tag-acceleration","tag-ato","tag-azure","tag-azure-government","tag-cloud-solutions","tag-devops","tag-devsecops","tag-government","tag-infrastructure-as-code","tag-microsoft-azure-for-government","tag-user-group"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Learn how key DevOps practices such Infrastructure as Code (IaC), continuous integration\/continuous deployment (CI\/CD) and automated testing, allow you and your team to develop and release changes much faster, with higher confidence.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2054"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}