{"id":61704,"date":"2021-05-14T07:30:50","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T15:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/?p=61704"},"modified":"2021-05-13T20:55:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T04:55:38","slug":"top-stories-from-the-microsoft-devops-community-2021-05-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/top-stories-from-the-microsoft-devops-community-2021-05-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community \u2013 2021.05.14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Friday everyone! I can&#8217;t believe we&#8217;re already nearly to the middle of May, where has this month gone? This was another week full of great posts and content from the community. We love when folks share their experiences &#8211; it helps us all grow, so thank you all!<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s top posts cover sprint setup in Azure DevOps, getting started with Terraform and Azure DevOps, automating deployments with Bicep, and more! Check them out below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/marklowg.medium.com\/azure-devops-setting-up-sprints-with-boards-97572ea3c4a0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Azure DevOps: Setting up Sprints with Boards<\/a><br \/>\nIn this post, George walks us through setting up sprints using Boards in Azure DevOps. Great detail and screenshots here!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timschaeps.be\/post\/running-a-build-in-azure-devops-with-cake-and-azure-artefacts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Running a build in Azure DevOps with Cake and Azure Artifacts<\/a><br \/>\nTim discusses using Cake in an Azure Pipeline with Azure Artifacts. If you&#8217;re using Cake build, check this one out!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.johnnyreilly.com\/2021\/05\/08\/create-pipeline-with-azure-devops-api\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Create a Pipeline with the Azure DevOps API<\/a><br \/>\nHave you ever wondered if it&#8217;s possible to create an Azure DevOps pipeline from the command line? John shows us how this can be done using curl.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jaytechwriter.medium.com\/azure-devops-pipelines-separating-your-build-and-deployment-packaging-fed56b17200b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Azure DevOps Pipelines: Separating Your Build and Deployment Packaging<\/a><br \/>\nJay discusses why and how he separated his build and deployment packaging on a project he was bringing into a pipeline.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meeg.dev\/blog\/automating-azure-infrastructure-deployments-using-bicep-and-azure-pipelines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Automating Azure infrastructure deployments using Bicep and Azure pipelines<\/a><br \/>\nChris walks us through why you&#8217;d want to use Bicep, how to get started using it, and follows it up with some great code examples in this thorough and detailed post.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devopsjournal.io\/blog\/2021\/02\/06\/GitHub-Actions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GitHub Actions &amp; Security: Best practices<\/a><br \/>\nIn this post, Rob has consolidated some useful information regarding GitHub Actions and Security. Be sure to check out the links within this post for more detail!<\/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>This week&#8217;s top posts cover sprint setup in Azure DevOps, getting started with Terraform and Azure DevOps, automating deployments with Bicep, and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39342,"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-61704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-azure","category-community"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>This week&#8217;s top posts cover sprint setup in Azure DevOps, getting started with Terraform and Azure DevOps, automating deployments with Bicep, and more!<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61704","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\/39342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61704\/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=61704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}