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How to Build & Deploy a Java Web Application using Team Services and Azure

April 25, 2017 Apr 25, 2017 04/25/17
David Staheli
So, you’ve heard the tagline “Microsoft Loves Java” but the skeptic in you still has doubts. Well, it’s true! Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS) are Microsoft developer toolkits to help developers plan, design, develop, test, deploy and support (the entire DevOps cycle) with all programming languages, ...

Agent-based deployment in Release Management

March 3, 2017 Mar 3, 2017 03/3/17
Roopesh Nair
Release Management now supports robust in-the-box multi-machine deployment. You can now orchestrate  deployments across multiple machines, perform rolling updates while ensuring high availability of the application throughout. Agent based deployment capability relies on the same build and deployment agents. However, unlike the current ...

Azure App Services Continuous Delivery

November 17, 2016 Nov 17, 2016 11/17/16
Gopinath C H[MSFT]
We are continuously working on improving and simplifying the deployment experience to Azure from Visual Studio Team Services. As a part of that effort, we are excited to announce preview of the Continuous Delivery feature we have added for App Services in the Azure portal. Continuous Delivery simplifies setting up a robust deployment pipeline...

Testing private/intranet applications using Cloud-based load testing

August 23, 2016 Aug 23, 2016 08/23/16
Deepak.Singhal [MSFT]
Cloud-based Load Testing Service can be used for performance and scale testing of an application by generating load from Azure. This type of load generation can only hit/generate load on an internet/publically accessible application. But we have seen many times customer needs to load test their application which is not publically accessible. ...

Use cloud load agents on your infrastructure

August 22, 2016 Aug 22, 2016 08/22/16
Deepak.Singhal [MSFT]
This blog talks about how you can configure your own machines (physical/VMs) with Cloud-based Load Testing service to do a load test run. This is primarily useful when you want to load test an application which is not publically accessible. To get more context around this, please refer 'Load testing Applications behind Firewall using Cloud-...

Deploying an Azure Red Hat Linux VM Running Apache Tomcat for use with Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server

August 18, 2016 Aug 18, 2016 08/18/16
Paul T. Barham
Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server (TFS) now has at least three mechanisms (i.e. deployment and utility tasks) for deploying to a Linux host or virtual machine (VM).  This walkthrough will show specifically how to setup and configure an Red Hat (v. 7.2) VM on Azure to run Tomcat and other necessary services to support ...

Deploying an Azure Ubuntu Linux VM Running Apache Tomcat for use with Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server

August 18, 2016 Aug 18, 2016 08/18/16
David Staheli
Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server (TFS) now have at least three mechanisms (i.e. deployment and utility tasks) for deploying to a Linux host or virtual machine (VM).  This walkthrough will show specifically how to setup and configure an Ubuntu (v16) VM on Azure to run Tomcat and other necessary services to support three...

Announcing General Availability of Azure DevTest Labs

May 25, 2016 May 25, 2016 05/25/16
Xiaoying Guo
Today, we are very excited to announce the general availability of Azure DevTest Labs: your self-service sandbox environment in Azure to quickly create Dev/Test environments while minimizing waste and controlling costs. We’ve been hearing from a lot of customers about all kinds of challenges they’ve been facing in their Dev/Test ...