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Building Your First GitHub Action

April 7, 2021 Apr 7, 2021 04/7/21
Steven Murawski
Hello from the friendly octocats at GitHub! By now, you might have used [GitHub Actions][1] for automation, CI/CD, and more. In this guide, you'll use TypeScript to build a GitHub action to interact with an existing service, and then learn how to publish it to GitHub Marketplace for discovery by the larger GitHub community.

AzureFunBytes – Intro to Cosmos DB with Mark Brown

April 5, 2021 Apr 5, 2021 04/5/21
Jay Gordon
Every week on AzureFunBytes, we try to introduce you to the technology, tools, processes, and practices that make up the fundamentals of Azure. This week we'll discuss how to get your data fast, with nearly any programming language, and distributed across the globe with Cosmos DB. Cosmos DB is Azure's fully managed, multi-model NoSQL ...

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 ...

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 ...