{"id":52696,"date":"2018-10-12T15:04:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T22:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/?p=52696"},"modified":"2019-02-14T15:48:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T23:48:30","slug":"top-stories-from-the-microsoft-devops-community-2018-10-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/top-stories-from-the-microsoft-devops-community-2018-10-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community &#8211; 2018.10.12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back! One of the great privileges of my job is that I get to spend a lot of time talking to customers about DevOps. But that often means a lot of time on the road, and stepping away from drinking at the firehose of great content coming from the Azure DevOps community. But now that I&#8217;m back in the office, I&#8217;ve found a great bunch of DevOps links:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PplocJ2OYjI\">Five Things about Azure DevOps<\/a>\nI&#8217;m not sure that Burke understands how therapy animals work, but I am sure that Damian and Burke understand Azure DevOps. Not only do you get to see bunnies that attack, and Burke attempting a terrible Australian accent, but you get to see how we bleeped our then-secret name change in front of the audience at Microsoft Build.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jeffreypalermo.com\/2018\/10\/performance-tuning-an-azure-devops-build-configuration\/\">Performance Tuning an Azure DevOps Build Configuration<\/a>\nHaving fast continuous integration build and test pipelines is one of the keys to increased velocity and faster delivery. Jeffrey Palermo has a few tips to keep your builds fast using Azure Pipelines.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpaul.me\/2018\/10\/azure-devops-never-manually-create-a-docker-container-again\/\">Azure DevOps \u2013 Never manually create a Docker container again!<\/a>\nAzure DevOps isn&#8217;t <em>just<\/em> for developers &#8211; it&#8217;s useful for your infrastructure team, too. Justin Paul shows you how to build a continuous integration pipeline to save time building Docker containers. You can take the newest code and deliver a docker image to a registry so that you can start consuming it immediately.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oksala.net\/2018\/10\/11\/azure-devops-task-group\/\">Azure DevOps Task Group<\/a>\nWanting to reuse a sequence of tasks in an Azure Pipeline? Panu Oksala shows you how to create a Task Group, encapsulating several task steps so that they can be added to another build or release pipeline, like any other task.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/azuredevopspodcast.clear-measure.com\/dave-mckinstry-on-integrating-azure-devops-and-the-culture-of-devops-episode-005\">Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 5: Dave McKinstry on Integrating Azure DevOps and the Culture of DevOps<\/a>\nDave McKinstry, a Program Manager for Azure DevOps, joins Jeffrey to talk about his journey through the DevOps industry, how to move forward with automated deployment, what a modern skillset looks like in today&#8217;s DevOps environment, and more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.codewrecks.com\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/10\/10\/azure-devops-pipelines-and-sonar-cloud-gives-free-analysis-to-your-os-project\/\">Azure DevOps Pipelines and Sonar Cloud gives free analysis to your OS project<\/a>\nAzure Pipelines helps you build your open source project freely, without installing any software &#8211; and SonarCloud offers free cloud-hosted static code analysis for your open source project, <em>also<\/em> without having to install any software. Gian Maria Ricci shows you the value in combining these two tools.<\/p>\n<p>Did you find some great content about Azure DevOps or DevOps on the Microsoft platform? Drop me a line on Twitter &#8211; I&#8217;m <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ethomson\">@ethomson<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back! One of the great privileges of my job is that I get to spend a lot of time talking to customers about DevOps. But that often means a lot of time on the road, and stepping away from drinking at the firehose of great content coming from the Azure DevOps community. But now that I&#8217;m back in the office, I&#8217;ve found a great bunch of DevOps links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":233,"featured_media":52620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-devops"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>I&#8217;m back! One of the great privileges of my job is that I get to spend a lot of time talking to customers about DevOps. But that often means a lot of time on the road, and stepping away from drinking at the firehose of great content coming from the Azure DevOps community. But now that I&#8217;m back in the office, I&#8217;ve found a great bunch of DevOps links.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/233"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}