Topic: Application Development

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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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How to automate your release notes 

  • By Jasmine Greenaway, Jasmine is an NYC-based Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft, who has almost too much fun finding interesting ways to use Azure and working on open source with .NET. Her development experience has led her to different development environments and industries, such as in retail with Sears, gaming with Rockstar Games, and prior to Microsoft, .NET developer tooling as a software engineer at GitHub. She also teaches the basics of web development as an adjunct professor at a local college and co-organizes a JavaScript meetup in Brooklyn.

Two facts are generally true for software releases.  One, as users, we wish software releases came with better…

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Announcing Project Athens and GopherSource for the Go community 

  • By Aaron Schlesinger, Aaron is a developer advocate at Microsoft Azure and a core maintainer of the Athens Project. He is an emeritus core maintainer and chair of the Kubernetes SIG-Service-Catalog and a contributor to various other projects in the Kubernetes community.

As part of our ongoing commitment to Go developers and our work with the Go community, today at…

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Coming soon: more Open Source Show episodes, featuring new community hosts 

  • By Lacey Butler, Lacey focuses on open source community engagement and is the co-producer of The Open Source Show. Her goals: recognize, inspire, and motivate developers far and wide, helping them do amazing things with technology. When she’s not crafting new shows, you’ll likely spot her at the public library searching for new gems or trying every product Trader Joe’s has to offer.

We launched The Open Source Show – featuring our own Suz Hinton, Lena Hall, and Bernd Verst –…

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GitHub acquisition furthers Microsoft’s commitment to open source 

  • By Microsoft + Open Source, Microsoft’s commitment to open source is ingrained in our business. Investments in this space began several years ago and continue to be reinforced through technology decisions, partner momentum, customer adoption, and community contributions.

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

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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…