Martin Woodward

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.11.29

November 29th, 2019

Round up of the latest community news to be thankful for. This week we have CI/CD using IoT Hub, 100 days on IaC, Configuring CI/CD with Azure Pipelines, using the GitHub Actions for Azure, 3 ways to automate tests, Deploying to GCP using Terraform with Azure Pipelines and a reminder that Gene Kim's latest book, The Unicorn Project, is out now

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.11.01

November 1st, 2019

Highlights from the past week from the Microsoft DevOps community. Featuring a readiness checklist for Azure, GUI testing with the Robot Framework, Fortify integration and a great write-up on the recent CVE-2019-1306 security issue patched in September.

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.08.30

August 30th, 2019

Sasha has been out at DevOpsDays Chicago this week so my turn to pick the highlights from the amazing Azure DevOps community across my feeds. Worth mentioning that while DevOpsDays Chicago has finished, there are plenty of local DevOpsDays happening across the globe. Next week it's the turn of Cape Town where Rory Preddy will be showing you ho

Azure DevOps Now Available in the UK

April 5th, 2019

At the Microsoft Reactor in London this morning, Donovan Brown announced that customers can now create Azure DevOps organizations and choose that their data will be hosted in the UK Azure geography.

ExpressRoute for Azure DevOps

October 23rd, 2018

Today we are excited to announce that Azure DevOps is now available over Azure ExpressRoute. Customers who typically operate in the government and financial services sectors have requested this support because they want private connections that don’t go over the public Internet for security reasons. ExpressRoute also typically offers them more reliability, faster speeds, and lower latencies than typical Internet connections.

Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.03.30

March 30th, 2018

Here are the top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. Top Stories Podcasts & Videos If you have feedback or would like to see a story included in next weeks round-up then please leave a comment below or use the #VSTS hashtag on

Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.03.23

March 23rd, 2018

Here are the top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. Top Stories Podcasts & Videos If you have feedback or would like to see a story included in next weeks round-up then please leave a comment below or use the #VSTS hashtag on

How VSTS is Accelerating the Engineering Group Behind Windows

March 12th, 2018

As part of our engineering processes in Microsoft, we often share best practices and stories of change across the engineering teams in the company. At our latest internal engineering conference as I listened in to sessions, I was struck by the sheer scale of the effort the Windows and Devices Group (WDG) undertook and the problems they've solv

Top stories from the VSTS community – 2017.08.04

August 4th, 2017

Here are the top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics:  TOP STORIES * Bulk import git repositories into VSTS/TFS - Gordon Beeming Gordon takes us through the different ways to import a Git repository into VSTS and then shows us how to easily automate the process using the VSTS R

Build 2017 Recap

May 17th, 2017

It was a busy week for everyone last week at the Build 2017 conference in Seattle. Thanks to everyone who was able to attend the conference and stop by the DevOps area to talk about VSTS. Even for the people that were there in person it is impossible to catch everything, but also for the hundreds of thousands watching online I thought it would