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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.

News June 7, 2018 1 min read

GitHub acquisition furthers Microsoft’s commitment to open source

This week Microsoft announced an agreement to acquire GitHub, building on our partnership that has spanned the last several years.

News June 3, 2018 8 min read

Why JavaScript and Node.js are ruling the web: Interview with John Papa

JavaScript has emerged as one of the most popular programming languages in the world, reigning at #1 on GitHub in terms of pull requests in 2017.

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.

a flow for how to continuously build and deploy Azure infrastructure for the applications running on Azure

Tutorials and demos May 22, 2018 6 min read

Tutorial: CI/CD for Azure using Terraform, Ansible and VSTS

This is part 1 of a 2-part series demonstrating how to continuously build and deploy Azure infrastructure for the applications running on Azure.

Tutorials and demos May 22, 2018 2 min read

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

Open source tools, like Terraform and Ansible, can be leveraged to implement “infrastructure as code,” making it easier to continuously build and deploy cloud infrastructure across your applications.