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AzureFunBytes Short – Cloud Shell

Jay GordonNovember 23, 2020Nov 23, 202011/23/20

The Azure Cloud Shell is one of my favorite things about using Azure. Many of the administrative tasks that I may have had to run from a local computer can now be done from a browser anywhere I can authenticate into my Azure account. I used to always worry about needing a computer that had a shell or a terminal program with my ssh key on it ...

Static Web App PR Workflow for Azure App Service using Azure DevOps Pt 2 (But what if my code is in GitHub)

AbelNovember 19, 2020Nov 19, 202011/19/20

In part 1, I walked you you through how to set up that sweet pull request workflow for Static Web Apps if your app if your app is in Azure App Service and your code and pipelines are in Azure DevOps. Now I show you how to do the same thing if your pipelines are in Azure Pipelines, but your code is in a GitHub repo.

AzureFunBytes Short – Azure Containers (Kubernetes, Container Instances, More)

Jay GordonNovember 19, 2020Nov 19, 202011/19/20

A container virtualizes the underlying OS and causes the containerized app to perceive that it has the OS—including CPU, memory, file storage, and network connections—all to itself. Because the differences in underlying OS and infrastructure are abstracted, as long as the base image is consistent, the container can be deployed and run anywhere

What’s New in Azure DevOps Docs For October?

AbelNovember 16, 2020Nov 16, 202011/16/20

Do you ever wonder what docs have been updated for Azure DevOps? We sure do, and now we track and report on it.

Delivery Plans 2.0 Public Preview

Dan HellemNovember 12, 2020Nov 12, 202011/12/20

Welcome to the public preview of Delivery Plans 2.0. We have added Delivery Plans into the core product and included some great new features like work items spanning iterations and stakeholder access. Give it a try today and let us know what you think.

Project Bicep Demo at Ignite 2020 by Mark Russinovich

Jay GordonNovember 12, 2020Nov 12, 202011/12/20

Bicep is a Domain Specific Language (DSL) for deploying Azure resources declaratively. It aims to drastically simplify the authoring experience with a cleaner syntax and better support for modularity and code re-use. Bicep is a **transparent abstraction** over ARM and ARM templates, which means anything that can be done in an ARM Template can

What is infrastructure as code?

Jay GordonOctober 16, 2020Oct 16, 202010/16/20

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the management of infrastructure (networks, virtual machines, load balancers, and connection topology) in a descriptive model, using the same versioning as DevOps team uses for source code. This blog post looks at two IaC options to use for Microsoft Azure.

Static Web App PR Workflow for Azure App Service Using Azure DevOps

AbelOctober 15, 2020Oct 15, 202010/15/20

The pull request workflow in Static Web Apps is super cool, but that only works for Static Web Apps and GitHub Actions.. This blog post walks you through how to implement the same PR workflow for Azure App Service using Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps Roadmap update for 2020 Q4

Sidi MerzoukOctober 15, 2020Oct 15, 202010/15/20

As part of our quarterly update, we’d like to share with you some of the highlights from the previous quarter and discuss what we have planned for this upcoming one. Each of the highlighted features includes a link to our public roadmap project where you'll find more details on the item and where you can check its status.

October patch for Team Foundation Server

Gloridel MoralesOctober 13, 2020Oct 13, 202010/13/20

This month, we are releasing a patch that impact Team Foundation Server 2018.

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