Topic: DevOps

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Tutorial: Using Azure REST API in Ansible to automate Azure resources 

  • By Kylie Liang, Kylie is Sr. Program Manager within Microsoft's Cloud + Enterprise Group. She focuses on DevOps and open source, including Ansible and Kubernetes, and Java tooling on Microsoft Azure. She has been working with open source communities for several years and is a board director of the FreeBSD Foundation.

Ansible 2.6 was released with more capabilities to provision and manage Azure resources. It includes four new modules…

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Celebrating OSCON’s 20th anniversary 

  • By Ken Thompson, Focused on Open Source Software, Azure Resource Manager and DevOps on Azure, I'm responsible for helping customers succeed with DevOps on the Azure cloud, using the tools and practices they know and love. I work with communities and partners to better integrate solutions on Azure that involve third-party DevOps tools such as (but not limited to) Ansible, Chef, Docker, Eclipse, Gitlab, Jenkins, Packer, Spinnaker, and Terraform.

We’re in Portland this week for OSCON’s return to the City of Roses (or Beervana, depending on who…

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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…

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HashiCorp co-founder on simplifying infrastructure management 

  • By Ken Thompson, Focused on Open Source Software, Azure Resource Manager and DevOps on Azure, I'm responsible for helping customers succeed with DevOps on the Azure cloud, using the tools and practices they know and love. I work with communities and partners to better integrate solutions on Azure that involve third-party DevOps tools such as (but not limited to) Ansible, Chef, Docker, Eclipse, Gitlab, Jenkins, Packer, Spinnaker, and Terraform.

HashiCorp was founded by Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar in 2012 with the goal of revolutionizing datacenter management…

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HashiCorp Vault speaks Azure Active Directory 

  • 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.

As an increasing number of customers move to the cloud, including multi-cloud and hybrid environments, securing infrastructure at…

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Automate more Azure resources with Ansible 2.5 and Galaxy 

  • By Kylie Liang, Kylie is Sr. Program Manager within Microsoft's Cloud + Enterprise Group. She focuses on DevOps and open source, including Ansible and Kubernetes, and Java tooling on Microsoft Azure. She has been working with open source communities for several years and is a board director of the FreeBSD Foundation.

Recently, Microsoft announced several key improvements to the developer experience when using Ansible on Azure, including Ansible in…

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Open Source Weekly: Azure SDK for Go v15, Python in VS Code, and more 

  • 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.

3-minute read + demos Check out the below recap of this week’s top open source related product announcements,…