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Tutorials and demos May 23, 2018 8 min read

Tutorial: Immutable infrastructure for Azure, using VSTS, Terraform, Packer and Ansible

This is part 2 of a 2-part series on CI/CD for “infrastructure as code” on Azure.

Tutorials and demos June 18, 2018 11 min read

Tutorial: Canary Deployment for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets

Canary deployment is a pattern that rolls out releases to a subset of users or servers.

Tutorials and demos June 20, 2018 4 min read

Tutorial: CI/CD using Apache Subversion, Jenkins in Azure and Tomcat

In this blogpost, we will show you how to provision a Jenkins VM and setup a CI/CD pipeline to connect a code repository in Apache Subversion (SVN) and deploy the application into a Tomcat service.

Tutorials and demos June 27, 2018 3 min read

Announcing Open Service Broker for Azure 1.0 and more community updates

A few months ago, we announced a preview of the Open Service Broker for Azure (OSBA), the simplest way to connect applications running in cloud native environments, like Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, and OpenShift, to the rich suite of managed services available in Azure.

Tutorials and demos July 31, 2018 2 min read

Tutorial: Using Azure REST API in Ansible to automate Azure resources

Ansible 2.6 was released with more capabilities to provision and manage Azure resources.

Tutorials and demos September 14, 2018 3 min read

Updates on DevOps and CI/CD support for Jenkins

With DevOps World | Jenkins World around the corner (September 16-19 in San Francisco) and the recent announcement of Azure DevOps, this seems like a good time to provide an update on the options for working with Jenkins on Microsoft Azure.

Tutorials and demos September 21, 2018 4 min read

Tutorial: Jenkins CI/CD to deploy an ASP.NET Core application to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

In this blogpost, we will show you how to provision a Jenkins virtual machine and setup a CI/CD pipeline to build an ASP.

Tutorials and demos September 21, 2018 4 min read

Tutorial: Jenkins CI/CD to deploy an ASP.NET Core application to Azure Web App service

In this blogpost, we will show you how to provision a Jenkins VM and setup a CI/CD pipeline to build an ASP.

Tutorials and demos November 27, 2018 8 min read

Tutorial: Using Azure DevOps to setup a CI/CD pipeline and deploy to Kubernetes

Note: for its 1-year anniversary, I refreshed this blog article in November 2019 to leverage new features with Helm 3 and Azure Pipelines (mainly YAML for both Build/CI and Release/CD), as well as to incorporate great feedback we’ve been receiving from our readers.

Tutorials and demos December 11, 2018 2 min read

4 new Python/Django video tutorials for productive cloud development

Python is a great language for building web apps, and Django is one of the most popular frameworks.

Tutorials and demos December 18, 2018 4 min read

What is a service mesh anyways?

The service mesh may sound complex, but at its heart, it’s a very simple idea: a set of network proxies that transparently run alongside microservices, implementing reliability, observability, and security features by measuring and manipulating inter-service (“east-west”) traffic.

Tutorials and demos February 28, 2019 11 min read

Tutorial: Adding distributed tracing instrumentation to a browser JavaScript app

In recent years, many developers have discovered the power of distributed tracing for debugging regressions and performance issues in their backend systems, especially for those of us with complex microservices architectures.