April Edwards

Senior Cloud Advocate

April is a senior cloud advocate and DevOps practice lead for Microsoft specializing in application transformation and DevOps ways of working. Her focus is working on Microsoft Azure to take customers of a journey from legacy technology, to serverless and containers, where code comes first, while enabling them to take full advantage of DevOps. April was previously a cloud consultant and solution architect for various partners in the UK and brings her years of experience in helping customers plan their journey. In April’s spare time she spends time outdoors hiking, skiing or scuba diving. She is also a triathlete competing in Ironman and Half Ironman triathlons.

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Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 13.05.2022

We're back this week for another top stories from the #AzureDevOps #Community! We're less than 2 weeks away from Microsoft Build! The excitement is building as some of the regions are hosting live and in-person! Check out the Microsoft Build website to register! (image) I am April Edwards and every week I try to bring you the latest ...

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2022.06.05

The top stories from the #AzureDevOps #community for 2022.06.05 are here! It's been a fun week with May the 4th and Cinco de Mayo! (image) I am April Edwards and every week I try to bring you the latest updates from around the DevOps on Azure community. If you have a post you’d like to have me include, I am always listening. You can ...

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2022.22.04

We're back this week for another top stories from the #AzureDevOps #Community! I am April Edwards and every week I try to bring you the latest updates from around the DevOps on Azure community. If you have a post you’d like to have me include, I am always listening. You can reach out on Twitter or LinkedIn and I will be sure to share your ...

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2022.08.04

We're back for another top stories from the #AzureDevOps #Community! After last weeks' 'catch-up' from the last month, this week feels so much quieter, but there is some awesome content for you! I am April Edwards and every week I try to bring you the latest updates from around the DevOps on Azure community. If you have a post you’d like to...

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2022.01.04

It's April in April! It's no joke, the top stories from the #AzureDevOps #Community are back this week! We have been on a short hiatus in support of the people in Ukraine. We do hope that everyone out there is safe and healthy. I am April Edwards and every week I try to bring you the latest updates from around the DevOps on Azure community. ...

Top stories from the #AzureDevOps #community for 2022.25.02 are here!

Welcome back! I am April Edwards and every week I try to bring you the latest updates from around the DevOps on Azure community. If you have a post you’d like to have me include, I am always listening. You can reach out on Twitter or LinkedIn and I will be sure to share your latest post with the community. Also, be sure to tag your posts ...

Deploy Into Azure Using Pulumi and GitHub Actions

On this week's episode of The DevOps Lab we have Kat Cosgrove and Matty Stratton from Pulumi joining us! In this week's episode we take our Infrastructure as Software a step further and deploy into Azure, using GitHub Actions. Check out the episode below: 02:45 - Why do tests and pipelines matter for your infrastructure as code? 3:57 - ...

Automating Azure Static Web Apps in Azure Pipelines

Azure Static Web Apps were launched earlier in 2021 and out of the box they had the capability to integrate your existing repository and deploy your Static Web App from Azure DevOps. You can reference the full getting started guide for the end-to-end deployment setup. Although, there is a caveat, the whole process is not entirely automated. ...

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