Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2021.12.10

Jay Gordon

The top stories from the #AzureDevOps #community for 2021.12.10 are here!

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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I am on vacation this week but I still managed to take a look at the collection of posts our community produced about DevOps. A reminder to everyone, make sure you schedule some time off to collect, reflect, and relax! We’ve all worked so hard in 2021 to keep systems active, applications deployed, and teammates informed. Without rest, we can burn out and no one wants that. So if you’re able to, plan some time off and rest up!

Posts from the DevOps on Azure Community

This week has another great collection of posts by the DevOps community, for the DevOps community. I am always on the hunt looking for great information for those who are just learning about DevOps all the way to the seasoned vet looking to implement some new methodology. Let’s take a look at this week’s roundup! We’ve got posts on GitOps, Kubernetes, Microservices, and a lot more.

GitOps Using GitHub Actions
Rekhu Chinnarathod has a new video showing you how to deploy to prod with just a push thanks to GitHub Actions. Let’s learn some GitOps!

Complete DevOps for Kubernetes
Houssem Dellai shares in this video an end-to-end solution for deploying applications to Azure Kubernetes Service with Azure Pipelines.

Azure DevOps and GitHub – Better Together Virtual Panel w/Atmosera, Microsoft, & GitHub – 12/01/2021
Wintellect presents a great panel of speakers who cover DevOps tooling adoption like Azure DevOps and GitHub.

Your First Microservice in .NET 6
Assis Zang looks at how you can utilize microservices to deploy your .NET 6 applications.

Continuous Deployment of Azure SQL Database Changes
Panu Oksala returns to the roundup this week with a post on CI/CD with Azure SQL.

Secrets management for ASP.NET Core and Azure DevOps
George Kosmidis looks at handling your important appsettings.json secrets for your ASP.NET applications securely.

Monitoring Azure Policy Compliance States – 2021 Edition
Tao Yang posts about monitoring the Azure Policy compliance states using Azure Monitor. Lots of great stuff here including a pipleline example.

Microsoft Posts, Events, and Updates

Microsoft’s own April Edwards put out a really great blog post about automation and Azure Static Web Apps using Azure DevOps for deployment. You can check out the entire post, “Automating Azure Static Web Apps in Azure Pipelines” and start building!

Want to learn how you can deploy serverless containers using Azure Container Apps and Pulumi? You can join Pulumi’s Matt Stratton and myself for a Microsoft Reactor session virtually on Wednesday, December 15, 2021 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM EST. We’ll will walk you through how Azure Container Apps work, why you might find them awesome, and how you can use Pulumi to build, deploy and manage your applications using your favorite programming language. You can click here to register for free to attend this online workshop on automation and containers.

Richard Hooper and Gregor Suttie bring you the “Festive Tech Calendar 2021” to help raise money for Girls Who Code. Make sure you check it out before the year ends! You won’t want to miss all of the great sessions and posts from all around the community for this great cause.

Thank you to all this week’s contributors! We appreciate the posts by Rekhu, Houssem, Wintellect, Assis, Panu, George, and Tao.

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!

Jay Gordon Senior Program Manager, Azure Cosmos DB

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