{"id":58759,"date":"2020-03-20T09:34:44","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T17:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/?p=58759"},"modified":"2020-03-20T09:34:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T17:34:44","slug":"top-stories-from-the-microsoft-devops-community-2020-03-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/top-stories-from-the-microsoft-devops-community-2020-03-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community \u2013 2020.03.20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Friday everyone! The content parade continues this week with topics including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>database changes in the pipeline,<\/li>\n<li>infrastructure as code,<\/li>\n<li>security,<\/li>\n<li>and automation of Azure DevOps itself. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m closing out the links with a bit of shameless self promotion about an upcoming webinar. Stay healthy, safe, and keep shipping!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gunnarpeipman.com\/visual-studio-database-project-azure-devops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Updating SQL Azure database using Visual Studio database project and Azure DevOps<\/a><br \/>\nEvolving your database with your application at speed can be tricky. Gunnar walks us through using Visual Studio database projects in Azure DevOps with SQL Azure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/zimmergren.net\/automate-security-code-analysis-azure-devops-microsoft-msca-extension\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Automate Azure DevOps code security analysis with the Microsoft Security Code Analysis extensions<\/a><br \/>\nCredentials in source code is something I&#8217;m much more aware of lately. I manage our team&#8217;s subscriptions. Any time credentials surface that target our subscriptions I get notified. Tobias introduces the Microsoft Security Code Analysis extension and how we can use it. I should advertise this more with my team, because accidents do happen and credentials end up in the craziest places.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tobiasfenster.io\/automating-organization-and-project-creation-in-azure-devops\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Automating organization and project creation in Azure DevOps<\/a><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve also done a bit of automating the setup of Azure DevOps environments for things like <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/aiml50\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the AIML50 session for Microsoft Ignite | The Tour<\/a>. Tobias demonstrates how a bit of exploration of the Azure DevOps REST API can get you down the path of creating new organizations and projects.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/samcogan.com\/using-terraform-modules-from-git-in-azure-devops\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Using Terraform Modules from Git in Azure DevOps<\/a><br \/>\nSam highlights Azure Pipelines with one of my favorite topics &#8211; infrastructure as code &#8211; with one of the more popular open source tools out there, Terraform.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/xenithit.blogspot.com\/2020\/03\/how-to-deploy-windows-virtual-dekstop.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How to deploy a Windows Virtual Desktop host pool using Infrastructure as code from Azure DevOps<\/a><br \/>\nI have to say, I love this post. Seeing infrastructure as code brought to creating Virtual Deskop hosts is awesome. Thanks Tom!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/42crunch.com\/webinar-rest-api-security-by-design-azure-pipelines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Webinar &#8211; REST API Security By Design with Azure Pipelines<\/a><br \/>\nThe folks over at 42Crunch (and I) will be talking about shifting left on API security and bringing build-time light to this murky problem.<\/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>Happy Friday everyone! 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