Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2021.02.12

Steven Murawski

February 13th, 20211 0

Happy Friday! (Well, maybe a bit later than Friday – my fault for not double-checking the publishing time). This week, we have a variety of topics, including how to use Azure DevOps with some experiences you may not expect!

Reasons to use Bicep over Terraform
We share a good bit about Terraform on this blog (because it’s an awesome tool), but there can be trade-offs. Marcus walks us through some of the tradeoffs versus a new DSL for Azure Resource Manager called Bicep.

Automate your Power BI reports deployment using Azure DevOps
Ivan shows us how to deploy our PowerBI reports with Azure DevOps – yep, you can use CI/CD to deploy your reports!

Azure DevOps Pipelines Caching
Antti explores how Pipelines Caching works and contrasts it to other options.

How we save ~ 1 hour per day by automating Jira releases from our Azure DevOps pipeline
Integrating Azure DevOps tools into your workflow can be a time saver. Darragh demonstrates how his team uses Azure Pipelines to update Jira automatically.

Build a simple and extensible multi-stage Azure DevOps pipeline with YAML and Powershell for Microsoft Dataverse solutions.
Who says that the Power Platform shouldn’t have CI/CD? Aymeric gives us a great example of deployment pipelines for Microsoft Dataverse (the shared data service for Power Apps).

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