Welcome back Microsoft developers and DevOps practitioners; I hope you had a great new year! Me? I took some time off to recharge the batteries and I’m glad I did because \u2014 wow<\/b> \u2014 even though it’s just the beginning of 2019, there’s already some incredible news coming out of the DevOps community.<\/p>\n
Alexa, open Azure DevOps<\/a>\nThis. Is. Incredible. Mike Kaufmann demonstrates the MVP of integration between Alexa and Azure DevOps. Do you want to assign a work item to him? Just ask. You’ve got to watch this video – once I did, I realized that I wanted an Alexa.<\/p>\n TFS 2019, Change Work Item Type and Move Between Team Project<\/a>\nWe recently brought the ability to change work item types and to move work items between projects to the on-premises version of Azure DevOps Server. But there’s a caveat – you can’t have Reporting Services enabled. Ricci Gian Maria walks through this limitation and the solution.<\/p>\n Deploying to Kubernetes with Azure DevOps: A first pass<\/a>\nKubernetes is incredibly popular, as it’s the next generation deployment platform for containerized application. But how do you build out a deployment pipeline around it? Jason Farrell creates his first pipeline to build a container and deploy it into AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service).<\/p>\n Creating a git repo with Azure Repos and trying out Git LFS<\/a>\nIf you’re thinking about using Git in a project with large binary assets – like images, videos or audio files – you might find yourself disappointed, as Git struggles with large binaries. Andrew Lock explains why, and how you can use Git LFS (Large File Storage) to manage your project.<\/p>\n