{"id":58675,"date":"2020-03-13T09:55:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T17:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/?p=58675"},"modified":"2020-03-13T09:55:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T17:55:51","slug":"top-stories-from-the-microsoft-devops-community-2020-03-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/top-stories-from-the-microsoft-devops-community-2020-03-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community \u2013 2020.03.13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey y&#8217;all! Happy Friday the 13th! While there&#8217;s lots of discouraging things out on the interwebs lately, we have some great examples of how to continue to deliver software. From build pipelines and shared definitions to custom release notes to caching, there&#8217;s a lot of great content this week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.razorspoint.com\/2020\/03\/13\/how-to-preview-and-test-a-changing-yaml-pipeline-on-azure-devops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How to Preview and Test a Changing YAML Pipeline on Azure DevOps<\/a><br \/>\nWorking with a YAML build definition can be frustrating when syntax errors block our progress. Sebastian shares a neat way to use an API in Azure Pipelines to validate the YAML build definition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pipelinetemplates.com\/index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pipeline_templates Project<\/a><br \/>\nNick brought my attention to a project where they are gathering useful build definition templates. It&#8217;s a nice resource if you are doing Xamarin development.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buchatech.com\/2020\/03\/build-release-a-container-image-from-azure-devops-to-azure-web-app-for-containers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Build &amp; Release a Container Image from Azure DevOps to Azure Web App for Containers <\/a><br \/>\nSteve provides an thorough walkthrough of how to build and deploy a container image from Azure Pipelines to Azure Web App for Containers &#8211; and yes, Azure Web App will run your container!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.blackmarble.co.uk\/rfennell\/2020\/03\/11\/a-major-new-feature-for-my-cross-platform-release-notes-azure-devops-pipelines-extension-handlebars-templating-support\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A major new feature for my Cross-platform Release Notes Azure DevOps Pipelines Extension\u2013Handlebars Templating Support<\/a><br \/>\nRichard describes a new templating language capability in his release notes extension. Release notes can be an awesome thing and I happen to like the handlebars template syntax.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thecodemanual.pl\/2020\/03\/11\/caching-not-only-nuget-packages-on-azure-devops.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Caching (not only) NuGet packages on Azure DevOps<\/a><br \/>\nI love caching! And I hate caching! Krysztof introduces the Cache@2 task.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve written an article about Azure DevOps or find some great content about DevOps on Azure, please share it with the #AzureDevOps hashtag on Twitter!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey y&#8217;all! Happy Friday the 13th! While there&#8217;s lots of discouraging things out on the interwebs lately, we have some great examples of how to continue to deliver software. 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