Tag: Ansible

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Tutorial: Automate infrastructure and deployment on Azure using Jenkins and Ansible 

  • By Kylie Liang, Kylie is Sr. Program Manager within Microsoft's Cloud + Enterprise Group. She focuses on DevOps and open source, including Ansible and Kubernetes, and Java tooling on Microsoft Azure. She has been working with open source communities for several years and is a board director of the FreeBSD Foundation.

Both Ansible and Jenkins are powerful open source automation tools. Using Ansible, you can provision virtual machines, containers,…

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

  • By Kylie Liang, Kylie is Sr. Program Manager within Microsoft's Cloud + Enterprise Group. She focuses on DevOps and open source, including Ansible and Kubernetes, and Java tooling on Microsoft Azure. She has been working with open source communities for several years and is a board director of the FreeBSD Foundation.

Ansible 2.6 was released with more capabilities to provision and manage Azure resources. It includes four new modules…

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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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Automate more Azure resources with Ansible 2.5 and Galaxy 

  • By Kylie Liang, Kylie is Sr. Program Manager within Microsoft's Cloud + Enterprise Group. She focuses on DevOps and open source, including Ansible and Kubernetes, and Java tooling on Microsoft Azure. She has been working with open source communities for several years and is a board director of the FreeBSD Foundation.

Recently, Microsoft announced several key improvements to the developer experience when using Ansible on Azure, including Ansible in…

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Alter Way delivers innovative, open source-based solutions 

  • By Mark Hill, Mark Hill is the Vice President for Open Source Sales and Marketing at Microsoft and responsible for growing the Microsoft business around the open source ecosystem globally and helping customers and partners derive value from a combination of Microsoft and open source technologies.

At last week’s Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), partners got a first-hand look at how Microsoft’s mobile-first, cloud-first vision…