{"id":61167,"date":"2021-02-26T08:30:25","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T16:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/?p=61167"},"modified":"2021-03-02T10:02:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T18:02:58","slug":"top-stories-from-the-microsoft-devops-community-2021-02-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/top-stories-from-the-microsoft-devops-community-2021-02-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community \u2013 2021.02.26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Friday! It&#8217;s still February in Wisconsin and I&#8217;m buried in snow. Despite the cold temps and weather, I&#8217;m keeping warm inside and enjoying these great community contributions.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to reading your awesome content, some of my teammates and I have been working with another group of community members &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/studentambassadors.microsoft.com?WT.mc_id=devops-17956-stmuraws\">our Microsoft Student Ambassadors<\/a>. We contributed to the <a href=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Shows\/Learn-Live?WT.mc_id=devops-17956-stmuraws\">Learn Live series<\/a> on Sharpening Your Cloud Skills.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dylanberry.com\/2021\/02\/21\/how-to-get-a-pat-personal-access-token-for-azure-devops-from-the-az-cli\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How To Get a PAT (Personal Access Token) for Azure DevOps from the az cli<\/a><br \/>\nEvery now and again you need to get a Personal Access Token (PAT) from Azure DevOps to automate something. Dylan shows us how we can get one via the Az CLI and some PowerShell.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thomasthornton.cloud\/2021\/02\/22\/deploy-azure-bicep-using-azure-devops-pipelines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deploy Azure Bicep using Azure DevOps Pipelines<\/a><br \/>\nHave you heard about <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/devops\/bicep\">Bicep<\/a>? It&#8217;s a new DSL for working with Azure Resource Manager. Thomas shows us how we can use it in Azure Pipelines.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mattvsts.github.io\/2021\/02\/23\/template-extension-in-azure-pipelines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Template extensions in Azure Pipelines<\/a><br \/>\nMatteo shows some advanced templating behaviors in Azure Pipelines &#8211; you may want to check out some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/azure\/devops\/pipelines\/process\/templates?view=azure-devops&amp;WT.mc_id=devops-17956-stmuraws\">docs around templates<\/a> after reading this post.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/prcode.co.uk\/2021\/02\/24\/merge-azure-devops-pipeline-templates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Merge Azure DevOps Pipeline Templates<\/a><br \/>\nDo you use the YAML build validation API in Azure DevOps? If so, you may have had challenges with templates. Chris brings us a solution thanks to a bit of PowerShell that can assemble the templates into an output that can be submitted to the validation API.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.baeke.info\/2021\/02\/25\/deploying-helm-charts-with-azure-devops-pipelines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deploying Helm Charts with Azure DevOps pipelines<\/a><br \/>\nGeert explains how we can deploy Helm charts through Azure Pipelines.<\/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! It is still February in Wisconsin and I&#8217;m buried in snow. 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