Topic: Cloud

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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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Announcing Open Service Broker for Azure 1.0 and more community updates 

  • By Sean McKenna, Sean McKenna is a Principal PM in the Azure Cloud Native Compute team where he works on a number of projects related to containers and Kubernetes, including the Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Container Instances, and the Open Service Broker for Azure. A Microsoft veteran, Sean is loving the new culture at the company and enjoys the opportunity to work across the industry to solve real customer problems. He lives in Seattle with his wife and infant son, where he enjoys exploring the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest along with its vibrant microbrew scene.

A few months ago, we announced a preview of the Open Service Broker for Azure (OSBA), the simplest…