Tag: Microsoft

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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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DevOps trends and tips from our resident pros 

  • By Ken Thompson, Focused on Open Source Software, Azure Resource Manager and DevOps on Azure, I'm responsible for helping customers succeed with DevOps on the Azure cloud, using the tools and practices they know and love. I work with communities and partners to better integrate solutions on Azure that involve third-party DevOps tools such as (but not limited to) Ansible, Chef, Docker, Eclipse, Gitlab, Jenkins, Packer, Spinnaker, and Terraform.

TechBeacon recently released the DevOps Top 100 list, recognizing members the DevOps community, who are exceptional writers, speakers,…

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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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Celebrating OSCON’s 20th anniversary 

  • By Ken Thompson, Focused on Open Source Software, Azure Resource Manager and DevOps on Azure, I'm responsible for helping customers succeed with DevOps on the Azure cloud, using the tools and practices they know and love. I work with communities and partners to better integrate solutions on Azure that involve third-party DevOps tools such as (but not limited to) Ansible, Chef, Docker, Eclipse, Gitlab, Jenkins, Packer, Spinnaker, and Terraform.

We’re in Portland this week for OSCON’s return to the City of Roses (or Beervana, depending on who…

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How to process streams of data with Apache Kafka and Spark 

  • By Lena Hall, Alena is a Senior Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft working on Azure, where she focuses on big data and large-scale distributed systems. Previously, she's worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft Research. Alena has more than 10 years of experience in the software engineering industry with a focus on distributed cloud programming, real-time system architecture, high load and performance, big data analysis, functional programming, and machine learning. She is an elected member of the F# Software Foundation’s Board of Trustees and holds a Master's degree in Computer Science and Information Technology.

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