How to automate your release notes
Two facts are generally true for software releases. One, as users, we wish software releases came with better release notes, and two, we hate creating release notes when it’s our turn to ship software updates.
Topic: Cloud
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.
Announcing Project Athens and GopherSource for the Go community
As part of our ongoing commitment to Go developers and our work with the Go community, today at GopherCon we announced contributions to the open source Project Athens and our involvement with GopherSource.
DevOps trends and tips from our resident pros
TechBeacon recently released the DevOps Top 100 list, recognizing members the DevOps community, who are exceptional writers, speakers, and thought leaders in the space.
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. It includes four new modules for Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure Resource, and many enhancements to existing Ansible modules for Azure (e.g., Virtual Machine, Networking interface).
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.
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. Have you ever thought how much data you personally are generating every day? Data: direct result of our actions There’s data generated as a direct result of our actions and activities: Obviously, that’s not it.
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. Today, we are pleased to announce the 1.
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.
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. It deploys the changes to a small set of servers, which allows you to test and monitor how the new release works before rolling the changes to the rest of the servers.
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.
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. I sat down with Brendan Burns, co-founder of Kubernetes, to get a behind-the-scenes look at the service, as well as what’s new and what’s next with the Kubernetes community.