Azure DevOps Blog

AzureFunBytes Presents: Migrating Your Data – Create Your Cosmos DB

June 10, 2021 Jun 10, 2021 06/10/21

Jay Gordon

Databases are complex beasts from an operational standpoint. There are a number of tasks that in the past had been laid at the feet of people known as Ops or DBA. Those tasks typically involve scaling your database servers, handling performance, ensuring backups, and monitoring. Let’s not forget licensing for your Enterprise database server.

AzureFunBytes Episode 42 – Hybrid Cloud on Azure with @ThomasMaurer

June 8, 2021 Jun 8, 2021 06/8/21

Jay Gordon

This week my guest was Senior Cloud Advocate Thomas Maurer . We dove into the world of hybrid cloud ! Not every application is born in the cloud, but they can certainly interact with it. A hybrid cloud is a type of cloud computing that combines on-premises infrastructure—or a private cloud—with a public cloud.

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2021.06.04

June 4, 2021 Jun 4, 2021 06/4/21

Jay Gordon

For many in the United States, this was a quick week after the Monday holiday and "unofficial start of the summer." But as the seasons continue to turn, one thing remains eternal: this community continues to put out amazing new content.

New policies to restrict personal access token scope and lifespan

June 3, 2021 Jun 3, 2021 06/3/21

pazand

Azure DevOps Administrators can now define a maximum lifespan for personal access tokens (PATs) and restrict the creation of global and full-scoped personal access tokens (PATs). These policies will affect all users and Azure DevOps organizations linked to the Azure AD tenant.

AzureFunBytes – Getting started with Bicep

June 2, 2021 Jun 2, 2021 06/2/21

Jay Gordon

Bicep is a Domain Specific Language (DSL) for creating your Azure resources. While there are various methods for writing infrastructure as code (IaC), such as Ruby, etc. Bicep aims to reduce complexity by introducing a cleaner syntax for you to reuse your code more often.

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2021.05.28

May 28, 2021 May 28, 2021 05/28/21

Jay Gordon

Happy Friday, DevOps Friends! Hope you had a great Microsoft Build, I know I did. I really enjoyed a lot of the great sessions, Ask The Experts, and of course keynotes that were broadcast throughout the week. One of my favorite sessions was [Ask the Experts: Infra as Code - Bicep](https://cda.ms/29n) that featured Microsoft CVP Brendan Burn

AzureFunBytes – Containers and Kubernetes with @brendandburns

May 25, 2021 May 25, 2021 05/25/21

Jay Gordon

This week I welcomed Kubernetes co-founder and Microsoft Corporate Vice President, Brendan Burns. Brendan has been there from the beginning and is kind enough to join the show to show off some of the power of using containers along with some new tricks found in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

Now available: Azure DevOps Server 2020.1 RTW

May 25, 2021 May 25, 2021 05/25/21

Gloridel Morales

Today, we released Azure DevOps Server 2020.1 RTW. This is our final release of Azure DevOps Server 2020.1. Check out the blog post for more details.

Copy Dashboard – Public Preview

May 24, 2021 May 24, 2021 05/24/21

Martina

The public preview of Copy Dashboard is now available.

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2021.05.21

May 21, 2021 May 21, 2021 05/21/21

Zachary Deptawa

Happy Friday everyone! This week's posts cover things like figuring out who an approver is on a pipeline for contact, how to safely use System.AccessTokens in Docker builds, hosting free websites with Azure Static Web Apps, and more! Be sure to check them out!