Azure DevOps Blog

New policies to restrict personal access token scope and lifespan

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

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

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

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

Jay Gordon May 28, 2021 May 28, 2021 05/28/21

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

Jay Gordon May 25, 2021 May 25, 2021 05/25/21

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

Gloridel Morales May 25, 2021 May 25, 2021 05/25/21

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

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

The public preview of Copy Dashboard is now available.

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2021.05.21

Zachary Deptawa May 21, 2021 May 21, 2021 05/21/21

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!

AzureFunBytes – Demystifying Helm with @DonovanBrown

Jay Gordon May 18, 2021 May 18, 2021 05/18/21

This week I welcome Captain America himself, Donovan Brown to discuss how to be a super hero to your Kubernetes clusters using Helm. We'll have a discussion on what made Donovan take interest in Helm and how he got started learning to use it. We'll also dive into Donovan's new role as Partner Program Manager in the Office of the CTO.

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2021.05.14

Zachary Deptawa May 14, 2021 May 14, 2021 05/14/21

This week's top posts cover sprint setup in Azure DevOps, getting started with Terraform and Azure DevOps, automating deployments with Bicep, and more!

On Prem To the Cloud: Let’s Rub Some DevOps On It! (Ep 3)

Damian Brady May 13, 2021 May 13, 2021 05/13/21

In episode 2 of this series, Jay helped Abel migrate the Mercury Health application environment into Azure. So we're in the cloud! But what about future changes? How do we get them out to customers? The answer is DevOps!