Welcome back! I am Jay Gordon and every week I try to bring you the latest updates from around the DevOps on Azure community. If you have a post you’d like to have me include, I am always listening. You can reach out on Twitter or LinkedIn and I will be sure to share your latest post with the community. Also, be sure to tag your posts with #AzureDevOps!

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Here in Brooklyn, NY the weather continues to trend colder but there’s always a little heat coming from our DevOps community. It always makes me happy to see how dedicated everyone is to producing great content to help others get the most from their DevOps solutions.

Speaking of dedicated people, I wanted to ask you to consider voting for our friend Abel Wang who lost his battle with cancer this past July. Abel has been posthumously nominated for a “Top DevOps Award” as part of the DevOps Dozen 2021 awards. Abel’s impact on the Microsoft and greater DevOps community is difficult to summarize. He was a friend, mentor, and a wonderful person to all. You can vote for him by going to this survey.

Now that we’ve got through our opening business, let’s take a look at this week’s posts from the Microsoft DevOps community. This week has a strong showing with new posts on Azure Data Factory, Azure DevOps, Bicep, and Azure Static Web Apps.

What are the good options to manage sensitive info in Azure Bicep?
Elkhan Yusubov reached out to me earlier this week to share this great post on managing your keys with Azure Key Vault and Bicep.

Festive Tech Calendar 2021
Gregor Suttie and Richard Hooper present the 2021 Festive Tech Calendar that raises money for Girls Who Code.

Updating your Azure Data Factory Linked Service during deployment via Azure DevOps
Joost van Rossum posts about deploying your ADF linked service via Azure Pipelines. There’s some great stuff on Key Vault in this post as well.

Deploying Hugo to Azure Static Web Apps with Azure DevOps
Ken Ross deploys his Hugo blog via SWA using Azure DevOps. He provides details on the tech stack and some YAML you can reuse.

CI/CD for serverless SQL pools using GitHub Actions
I feel like I share Kevin Chant‘s work here nearly every week because he’s always producing something new and useful. This week he covers a way you can configure CI/CD for Azure Synapse Analytics serverless SQL pools.

Azure DevOps Podcast – James Shore on the Art of Agile Development – Episode 167
Jeffrey Palermo welcomes James Shore to the podcast for a chat on Agile Development.

Load Testing. k6 + TypeScript + Azure DevOps
Alex Klaus shares a new post that focuses on using open source tool k6 to load test your TypeScript apps.

Thank you to all this week’s contributors! We appreciate the posts by Elkhan, Gregor, Richard, Joost, Ken, Kevin, Jeffery, James, and Alex.

If you’ve written an article about Azure DevOps or find some great content about DevOps on Azure, please share it with the #AzureDevOps hashtag on Twitter!

Happy Friday, may your deploys go as planned and your weekend be fun!