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DevOps, Git, and Agile updates from the team building Azure DevOps

Intro to Service Principals with Peter De Tender

March 29, 2021 Mar 29, 2021 03/29/21

Jay Gordon

AzureFunBytes is a weekly opportunity to learn more about the fundamentals and foundations that make up Azure. It's a chance for me to understand more about what people across the Azure organization do and how they do it. Every week we get together at 11AM Pacific on Microsoft LearnTV and learn more about Azure. This time Microsoft Technical ...

Controlling Release Pipelines with Gates and Azure Policy Compliance

March 26, 2021 Mar 26, 2021 03/26/21

Peter De Tender

In this article, I will guide you through making your CI/CD pipeline deployments more intelligent (and powerful) by using Azure DevOps Release Gates (Sometimes called Quality Gates), to only allow a Release to run, when there are no Azure Policy violations getting reported for that deployment.

Introducing Azure DevOps Server 2020.1 RC1

March 23, 2021 Mar 23, 2021 03/23/21

Gloridel Morales

Today we're very excited to announce the first release candidate (RC) of Azure DevOps Server 2020.1!

On Prem To The Cloud: DevOps-ing Everything As Code (Ep 5)

March 23, 2021 Mar 23, 2021 03/23/21

Zachary Deptawa

We're back with episode 5 in our On Prem To the Cloud journey where we'll take a deeper look at getting our Infrastructure as Code setup in a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline.

AzureFunBytes – Intro to Azure Policy with Steven Murawski

March 22, 2021 Mar 22, 2021 03/22/21

Jay Gordon

Each week on AzureFunBytes, we try to introduce you to the technology, tools, processes, and practices that make up the fundamentals of Azure. One of the real goals we strive for is to cover all the subjects and make sure you're able to implement the tech and concepts presented. One of the people who's really come to help me with this is ...

Azure Friday: Best practices for Azure Container Instances (ACI) with GitHub Actions

March 19, 2021 Mar 19, 2021 03/19/21

Jessica Deen

What are Azure Container Instances? Azure Container Instances (ACI) allow for a quick, simple, and cost effective way to run serverless containers in production. ACI is a GA (generally available) service for hosting serverless containerized workloads, including ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipelines, serverless batch jobs, and API ...

Change in Azure Pipelines Grant for Private Projects

March 16, 2021 Mar 16, 2021 03/16/21

Vijay Machiraju

Azure Pipelines has been offering free CI/CD to customers since the beginning. This allows people trying out Azure DevOps to use nearly all our features, including Microsoft-hosted agents, without having to pay us anything. We offer 1800 free minutes per month on hosted agents to all projects, and 10 parallel jobs to open source projects. ...

On Prem To the Cloud: Everything As Code (Ep 4)

March 16, 2021 Mar 16, 2021 03/16/21

Steven Murawski

And we are back! Now that Abel and Damian have shown us how to build a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline for the application and database, we've gained a bit of time back in our calendar (those manual deploys were taking a lot of time since our dev team got all Agile on us...). Jay helped Abel migrate the application...