{"id":61054,"date":"2021-02-13T06:39:42","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T14:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/?p=61054"},"modified":"2021-02-13T06:39:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T14:39:42","slug":"top-stories-from-the-microsoft-devops-community-2021-02-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/top-stories-from-the-microsoft-devops-community-2021-02-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community \u2013 2021.02.12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Friday! (Well, maybe a bit later than Friday &#8211; my fault for not double-checking the publishing time). This week, we have a variety of topics, including how to use Azure DevOps with some experiences you may not expect!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marcusfelling.com\/blog\/2021\/reasons-to-use-bicep-over-terraform\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reasons to use Bicep over Terraform<\/a><br \/>\nWe share a good bit about Terraform on this blog (because it&#8217;s an awesome tool), but there can be trade-offs. Marcus walks us through some of the tradeoffs versus a new DSL for Azure Resource Manager called Bicep.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/swlh\/automate-you-power-bi-reports-deployment-using-azure-devops-5ada8915d401\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Automate your Power BI reports deployment using Azure DevOps<\/a><br \/>\nIvan shows us how to deploy our PowerBI reports with Azure DevOps &#8211; yep, you can use CI\/CD to deploy your reports!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.koskila.net\/azure-devops-pipelines-caching\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Azure DevOps Pipelines Caching<\/a><br \/>\nAntti explores how Pipelines Caching works and contrasts it to other options.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.to\/darraghor\/how-we-save-1-hour-per-day-by-automating-jira-releases-from-our-azure-devops-pipeline-heg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How we save ~ 1 hour per day by automating Jira releases from our Azure DevOps pipeline<\/a><br \/>\nIntegrating Azure DevOps tools into your workflow can be a time saver. Darragh demonstrates how his team uses Azure Pipelines to update Jira automatically.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aymeric-mouille.medium.com\/build-a-simple-and-extensible-multi-stage-azure-devops-pipeline-with-yaml-and-powershell-for-6295cc61822d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Build a simple and extensible multi-stage Azure DevOps pipeline with YAML and Powershell for Microsoft Dataverse solutions.<\/a><br \/>\nWho says that the Power Platform shouldn&#8217;t have CI\/CD? Aymeric gives us a great example of deployment pipelines for Microsoft Dataverse (the shared data service for Power Apps).<\/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! (Well, maybe a bit later than Friday &#8211; my fault for not double-checking the publishing time). This week, we have a variety of topics, including how to use Azure DevOps with some experiences you may not expect!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19707,"featured_media":54064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-azure","category-community"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Happy Friday! (Well, maybe a bit later than Friday &#8211; my fault for not double-checking the publishing time). This week, we have a variety of topics, including how to use Azure DevOps with some experiences you may not expect!  <\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61054","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\/19707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}