Content type: Tutorials and demos

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Updates on DevOps and CI/CD support for Jenkins 

  • By Brian Benz, Brian is a Senior Developer Advocate at Microsoft, helping Java developers to get the most out of Azure. Before Joining Microsoft, he was a solution architect, consultant, developer, author and presenter at IBM, Deloitte, and other companies.

With DevOps World | Jenkins World around the corner (September 16-19 in San Francisco) and the recent announcement of…

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Announcing Open Service Broker for Azure 1.0 and more community updates 

  • By Sean McKenna, Sean McKenna is a Principal PM in the Azure Cloud Native Compute team where he works on a number of projects related to containers and Kubernetes, including the Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Container Instances, and the Open Service Broker for Azure. A Microsoft veteran, Sean is loving the new culture at the company and enjoys the opportunity to work across the industry to solve real customer problems. He lives in Seattle with his wife and infant son, where he enjoys exploring the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest along with its vibrant microbrew scene.

A few months ago, we announced a preview of the Open Service Broker for Azure (OSBA), the simplest…

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

  • By Elena Neroslavskaya, Elena Neroslavskaya is Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft. She is interested in all things open source and cloud, and is always looking for new ways to help and learn from OSS community and do great things on Azure or Cloud Foundry. When she’s not working, she’s usually learning, watching stars or hanging out with her family.

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

a flow for how to continuously build and deploy Azure infrastructure for the applications running on Azure.
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Tutorial: CI/CD for Azure using Terraform, Ansible and VSTS 

  • By Elena Neroslavskaya, Elena Neroslavskaya is Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft. She is interested in all things open source and cloud, and is always looking for new ways to help and learn from OSS community and do great things on Azure or Cloud Foundry. When she’s not working, she’s usually learning, watching stars or hanging out with her family.

This is part 1 of a 2-part series demonstrating how to continuously build and deploy Azure infrastructure for…

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How to create a custom VSTS agent on Azure ACI with Terraform 

  • By Elena Neroslavskaya, Elena Neroslavskaya is Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft. She is interested in all things open source and cloud, and is always looking for new ways to help and learn from OSS community and do great things on Azure or Cloud Foundry. When she’s not working, she’s usually learning, watching stars or hanging out with her family.

Open source tools, like Terraform and Ansible, can be leveraged to implement “infrastructure as code,” making it easier…

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Deploying and using HashiCorp Terraform Enterprise on Azure 

  • By Eugene Chuvyrov, Eugene Chuvyrov works on the Commercial Software Engineering at Microsoft. In his role, he gets to both help and learn from many OSS developers inside and outside Microsoft working with our cloud platform. When he’s not working, he’s usually outdoors on a bike or swimming with his family.

Many Azure customers have adopted HashiCorp Terraform as their infrastructure provisioning tool of choice. We are working closely…

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How to deploy a production-ready Node.js HA Stack on Azure 

  • By Brad Bock, Brad Bock is a Program Manager for Cloud Partnerships at Bitnami. He is interested in all things open source and cloud, and is always looking for new ways to help partners and their users do great things with Bitnami apps. In his free time you can find Brad brewing beer at home or hanging out with his wife and their new baby boy.

In our effort to bring the benefits of pre-packaged software to enterprise workloads in the cloud, Bitnami has…