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September 24, 2018 4 min read

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

Both Ansible and Jenkins are powerful open source automation tools.

September 19, 2018 2 min read

Join Pivotal and Microsoft for the European JUG Tour

In October, as a continuation of our upcoming Microsofhttps://brujug.

September 6, 2018 4 min read

How to automate your release notes

Two facts are generally true for software releases.

August 31, 2018 5 min read

Securing Kubernetes workloads in hybrid settings with Aporeto

Centralized visibility and security for applications distributed on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and private clouds Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) makes it simple to deploy a managed Kubernetes cluster 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.

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Events July 16, 2018 5 min read

Celebrating OSCON’s 20th anniversary

We’re in Portland this week for OSCON’s return to the City of Roses (or Beervana, depending on who you ask) to celebrate the ground-breaking event’s 20th birthday.

Project updates July 9, 2018 22 min read

How to process streams of data with Apache Kafka and Spark

Data is produced every second, it comes from millions of sources and is constantly growing.

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 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 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.

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News June 13, 2018 1 min read

Microsoft joins the OpenCensus project

We are happy to announce that Microsoft is joining the open source OpenCensus project, originally initiated and shepherded by Google, and we are excited to help it achieve the goal of “a single distribution of libraries for metrics and distributed tracing with minimal overhead.

News June 13, 2018 4 min read

Q&A with Kubernetes co-founder Brendan Burns

Today, we announced that Azure Kubernetes Service, which simplifies the deployment, management, and operations of Kubernetes, is now generally available in five new regions.