Topic: Cloud

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Tutorial: Canary Deployment for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets 

  • 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.

Canary deployment is a pattern that rolls out releases to a subset of users or servers. It deploys…

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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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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…

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Deploying and using HashiCorp Terraform Enterprise on Azure 

  • By Eugene Chuvyrov, Eugene Chuvyrov works on the Commercial Software Engineering at Microsoft. In his role, he gets to both help and learn from many OSS developers inside and outside Microsoft working with our cloud platform. When he’s not working, he’s usually outdoors on a bike or swimming with his family.

Many Azure customers have adopted HashiCorp Terraform as their infrastructure provisioning tool of choice. We are working closely…