Welcome to the second episode in our HashiCorp series, Kyle Ruddy is back to show us how we can use terraform to manage both Azure and Github with code. While many people only use it to provision…

In this first episode of our Hashicorp series, Kyle Ruddy joins April to show how you can use terraform to manage both Azure and Github with code. While many people only use it to provision…

On today's episode of the DevOps Lab, Chris Maneu is back for the final episode of our Infra as Code in Action series, Tagging strategy. He'll walk us through what they are, why they're useful, how to…

Christopher Maneu is back for episode three of this four-part series, Infra as Code in Action! Today April and Chris will focus on preventing resource deletion and protecting production resources. …

On today's episode of The DevOps Lab, April Edwards welcomes John Downs to demonstrate Bicep's many capabilities for complex Azure deployments. We'll provide learning material and guidance to support…

April Edwards and Christopher Maneu are back for part two of this four-part series, Infra as Code in Action! Today, they'll be talking about secrets management! Is it really important to keep…

The DevOps Lab is back with host April Edwards. On the show today, April welcomes Christopher Maneu for Episode one of this four-part series, Infra as Code in Action! DevOps practitioners get a…

On this week's episode, April Edwards joins Damian for an introduction into the Azure Static Web App service and its differentiators as well as a demo of how to automate the deployment of Azure Static…

Vinicius Apolinario is here to demo how to move apps from legacy to Azure on Azure Migrate. This new tooling helps containerize existing applications using Azure Migrate, an easy-to-use tool that…

A new approach to an age old problem Shifting left and expanding right simultaneously for quality at velocity Measuring software behavior. Jump to:[00:00] Preventing Zero-Day Bugs with ReGrade[01:22]…

Delivery Plans 2.0 is generally available as of April 30th. Delivery Plans 2.0 is part of the Azure Boards offering that brings roadmap plans to customers. It's a feature our customers have been…

Our customers have been wanting some more basic, getting started material on taking their on prem applications and moving them to the cloud. This video series does just that. Starting with a simple on…

Our customers have been wanting some more basic, getting started material on taking their on prem applications and moving them to the cloud. This video series does just that. Starting with a simple on…

Our customers have been wanting some more basic, getting started material on taking their on prem applications and moving them to the cloud. This video series does just that. Starting with a simple on…

Our customers have been wanting some more basic, getting started material on taking their on prem applications and moving them to the cloud. This video series does just that. Starting with a simple on…

Our customers have been wanting some more basic, getting started material on taking their on prem applications and moving them to the cloud. This video series does just that. Starting with a simple on…

GitHub Actions is a flexible platform for creating DevOps pipelines, and with it we can create smooth workflows that will build and deploy our libraries to destinations like npm and NuGet. What's…

Our customers have been wanting some more basic, getting started material on taking their on prem applications and moving them to the cloud. This video series does just that. Starting with a simple…

Our customers have been wanting some more basic, getting started material on taking their on prem applications and moving them to the cloud. This video series does just that. Starting with a simple on…

In this episode, Abel and Damian talk about why DevOps is important for on prem applications. They'll walk through creating a CI/CD pipeline for our VM-based application and database using Azure…

In this episode, Abel and Martin will talk about moving Work Item data between Collections, Organizations, and Projects in Azure DevOps and TFS using the Migration Tools. Jump to:[04:44] Where to…

Our customers have been wanting some more basic, getting started material on taking their on prem applications and moving them to the cloud. This video series does just that. Starting with a simple on…

Migrating to the cloud requires some investigation on the resources required. Jay and Abel will look at how to begin the Lift and Shift process by reviewing the hosts and determining needs. Jump To:…

Azure Stack Hub is now supporting various GitHub Actions. GitHub Actions enable developers to create custom software development life cycle (SDLC) workflows. With GitHub Actions for Azure Stack Hub,…

In this episode, we will walk you through Azure DevOps Demo Generator, a service which helps you provision projects on your Azure DevOps organization with pre-populated sample content, that includes…

During this episode we will discuss the different integration points between Azure Boards and GitHub. We will answer the questions of: Why use Azure Boards for planning and GitHub for code? What are…

Learn how the Azure Cloud Collaboration Center (CCC) visualization team continuously monitors a Web App for Performance and Accessibility using open-source tools Lighthouse API for perf and Axe-Core…

In this video, we'll go over the what, why, and how of Project Bicep and how it's going to make deploying infrastructure to Azure even easier. We'll go over the basics of what makes Bicep useful, as…

Infrastructure as code is one of the most important and underutilized aspects of DevOps. In this episode of DevOps Lab, we will talk about a cool way to handle Infrastructure as code for Azure using…

We'll walk through the concepts and features of MLflow support in Azure Machine Learning. We'll be showing a few examples on how to manage your machine learning assets using MLflow in variety of…

A deep dive into understanding how to manage, provision and realize the most value from your enterprise and pay as you go DevTest subscriptions. We'll look at Azure management groups, the enrollment…

You are embarking on a new project and have decided to go full Serverless and try out that JAMStack. After all, our application is a web front end and some API's, so Serverless is the perfect model…

A deep dive into understanding how you can leverage individual credits for enterprise work, and drive innovation for lasting impact. We'll look at how you can use these subscriptions, their benefits…

Sarah and Damien discuss Azure Sentinel – Microsoft's cloud SIEM solution – and how you can use this to implement security monitoring for your AKS clusters. Learn More: Monitoring AKS with Azure…

Infrastructure as code based provisioning can easily grow to the point of chaos. Sentinel, which is HashiCorp's Policy as Code framework, can easily configure guardrails that are enforced within the…

With so many CI and CD tools in the wild, how do you know which one to use? Well, why choose just 1? In this episode, we're going to discuss how to interact with GitHub Actions and Octopus Deploy…

HashiCorp's Terraform Cloud is a SaaS platform where we can more easily collaborate on Terraform configurations through remotely stored, versioned, and shared Terraform state files. Check out how easy…

Learn how Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates to provision and Azure DevOps Pipelines and create a Continuous Integration Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline. Jump To: [00:50] Plan of this…

Learn how to use GitHub Action with the power of Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates to create a Continuous Integration Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline. Learn More: Code SamplesAzure…

The ARM templates are very powerful and useful, we can agree on that. However, something it could be hard to get started. In this tutorial you will learn tips and tricks to start from scratch with…

Learn Modules on building ARM templates with Pierre Roman and Abel Wang. Jump To: [01:00] Loops in ARM Templates intro[01:47] Copy function in a simple ARM Template[06:40] Deploying copies of…

In this episode, find out at the Cake build orchestration tool, which can help automate your entire build process. Using its C# DSL, it allows the creation of a build script in a language that…

As ARM deployments become more complex, using linked and nested templates allow you to break these deployments down into smaller reusable components. In this session Neil will demonstrate how each of…

In the previous tutorial we were deploying only one resource. In most cases you will be deploying many resources with one template, and it's important to have some control over the deployment. In this…

In the Outputs section of your template, you can specify values that will be returned after a successful deployment. In this session Pierre and Abel will show demonstrate how you can use those outputs…

Hashicorp's Terraform Provider for Azure has been released! Check out the new features and where Hashi has improved usability of Terraform. Learn More: April's blog on the UpdatesHashi's…

How do you incorporate load testing into your DevOps pipeline? In this episode, Tim Koopmans walks us through the steps of writing a browser-based load testing script using Flood Element, adding it as…

Variables are very useful in all king of scenarios to simplify things. Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates aren't an exception and the variable will offer great flexibility. In this chapter, we…

So now you are happy about all the things you learn in those first chapters. But their good chance is that if try to execute the PowerShell or Bash command on your side you will end up with: ____…

Restore and deploy a complete Azure infrastructure using GitLab's CI/CD pipelines. Jump To: [00:38] What is GitLab?[02:18] Demo start[03:24] Pipelines overview[04:55] Build definitions[05:54]…

In the previous episode we learn how to create resources using an Azure Resources Manager (ARM) template. However, it was all static and defined inside the template. In this tutorial you will learn…

Now it's time to code. This session will introduce Visual Studio Code tools and show you how to create your first template from snippet, and how to deploy it. Learn More: Code Samples Azure Resource…

ARM (Azure Resource Manager) Templates are the native infrastructure as code solution for provisioning Azure Resources. Learn what ARM Templates are and why they are the best way to manage your Azure…

Dmitry Sotnikov, Chief Product Officer at 42Crunch and curator of APIsecurity.io joins Abel Wang for a discussion on the transition to cloud and later to cloud-native, container-based and serverless…

In this episode learn how to create a product roadmap with ProductPlan, and integrate your roadmap with Azure DevOps. We show how you can easily import from Azure DevOps to create your roadmap, and…

Find out how to integrate Microsoft Teams and Azure DevOps to stay up to date as well as complete your workflows right in the ambience of Teams. Jump To: [04:31] Demo Start Learn More: Workplace…

Damian sits down with Martin Woodward at Microsoft Ignite 2019 to talk about interoperability with Azure DevOps in the coolest way possible. The DAS Deployer is a fun project using a Raspberry Pi,…

Trying to maintain both quality and speed is a real challenge, and testing methodologies can either aid or downshift the acceleration rapid application development. See how using right tools,…

Abel Wang is joined by Asaf Yigal to discuss streamline observability with Logz.io's open source-based Cloud Observability platform. See how the platform unifies the best breed open source monitoring…

GitHub Actions lets you take code in your GitHub repository and add automation around it. You can create workflows that respond to issue comments, handle pull requests, or perform CI/CD on macOS,…

Sean Ferguson joins Abel Wang to chat about a new added Deployment control that integrates work items with Releases. With this control, you can track where and when your completed work item is being…

Gaining confidence in your systems through monitoring and testing. Focus your efforts on giving yourself confidence in the parts of your system that are risky. Learn More: Building Request…

How can I deploy my applications to Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) like Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) without having any downtime? How can I automate this, and how can I ensure my customers won't…

In this episode, Damien sits down with Laurie Barth to talk about Getting comfortable with DevOps as a developer. Software Engineers don't always understand how they fit into the DevOps pipeline and…

In this episode, Damien sits down with Alison Hawke, QA practice lead, World Wide Technology, to talk about how changing the way your team does testing can improve your software, and make your lives…

In this episode, Abel sits down again with April Edwards to talk about using GitHub Actions to deploy infrastructure using Terraform. April walks through the process of taking code that is already…

In this episode, Abel sits down again with April Edwards to talk about using Terraform to provision infrastructure through pipelines with the help of Azure DevOps By using Azure DevOps and Terraform,…

In this episode, Abel sits down again with April Edwards to talk about Terraform Modules and how to deploy reusable and repeatable code. Testing code in multiple different environments can be…

In this episode, Abel sits down again with April Edwards to talk about Terraform state files. Keeping track of what an environment should and does look like can be a challenge, particularly when it…

In this episode, Abel Wang chats down with Ram and Gopal about how you can do DevOps into SAP - a traditionally difficult task. SAP developers have unique challenges beyond what we find with other…

In this series, Abel and Zachary Deptawa walk through deploying to on premises Windows servers behind firewalls using Azure DevOps. In part 3, we bring it all together. We've shown you how to set up a…

In this series, Abel and Zachary Deptawa walk through deploying to on premises Windows servers behind firewalls using Azure DevOps. In part two, we show how easy it is to set up Deployment Groups…

In this series, Abel and Zachary Deptawa walk through deploying to on premises Windows servers behind firewalls using Azure DevOps. In part one, we walk through configuring a Build for a .NET…

In this episode, Abel sits down with Dipendra Namdeo to talk more about the Azure DevOps Wiki. As developers, we have special needs when it comes to wiki's and documentation. Specifically, we often…

In this episode, Damian speaks to George Verghese from the Azure DevOps team about the new Azure DevOps CLI. There are several ways to work with Azure DevOps, and if your goal is automation, the CLI…

In this episode, Abel Wang chats with Deepak Saini and Michael Ma to talk about scenario testing with automated UI tests. In the context of Azure Platform as a Service (PaaS), Web apps have a very…

Abel sits down with Technical Solutions Professional April Edwards to talk about using Terraform to deploy to Azure. In today's DevOps world, Infrastructure as Code is a vital component. ARM templates…

In this video, Abel talks to Dipendra Namdeo to find out about the Azure DevOps Wiki - an online wiki solution built into Azure DevOps. In a software project, there is a need to share information and…

Anisha Pindoria speaks with Alex Nichols about the introduction of the Azure Boards app to the GitHub Marketplace, a new way to integrate between the two services so that you can stay organized and…

In this episode, Abel chats with Dan Hellem to walk through the details of the new Basic process in Azure DevOps and learn how it works. Azure DevOps has added a new Basic process to sit alongside…

Damian sits down with Product Manager Gopinath Chigakkagari to talk about deploying to Azure using GitHub Actions. Did you know the Azure Pipelines team is responsible not just for Azure Pipelines but…

In this video Abel catches up with Dan Hellem for a quick walk through of the new experience of Visual Studio 2019. In previous versions of Visual Studio, the work item experience was centered around…

Damian speaks with Alex Nichols about how to integrate Azure Boards with your GitHub project. As your organization and projects grow it can get challenging to stay focused on what's most important…

While at Microsoft Ignite | The Tour in Berlin, Damian speaks to Microsoft MVP Houssem Dellai about some options for deploying your database alongside your application. Houssem shows a few different…

Damian catches up with fellow Cloud Advocate Jay Gordon at Microsoft Ignite | The Tour in Berlin. Containers are still new for a lot of people and with the huge list of buzzwords, it's hard to know…

Damian speaks to Edward Thomson about how to get started with Azure Pipelines - right from GitHub. The deep integration and GitHub Marketplace app for Azure Pipelines makes it incredibly easy to build…

Damian speaks to Nick Blumhardt about structured logging. Trawling through logs is often painful, and it can be hard to discover exactly what events are related to what others. The problem is far…

Damian chats to MVP Thomas Rayner about Azure Automation Runbooks. You don't always need to jump into the portal to get things done in Azure. In this episode, Thomas walks us through how to configure…

Damian talks to Microsoft's Paige Bailey as well as MVP Terry McCann about DevOps for Data Science. These two really popular fields are not often combined, but there are some fantastic opportunities…

How Azure global monitoring team uses VSTS to deploy their Azure Cloud Collab dashboard Damian sits down with Deepak Saini and Vinod Kumar to talk about Continuous Availability. Is it enough to…

Damian is joined by fellow Aussie Simon Waight at the MVP Summit to talk about deploying Azure Functions with VSTS. Many Azure DevOps demos show how to deploy websites, but there are so many Azure…

Damian talks to Deepak Kaushik about moving data warehousing from on-premises servers to Azure SQL Data Warehouse. Data warehouses are traditionally hosted on physical servers located at central…

Damian sits down with fellow Aussie and Microsoft Regional Director Troy Hunt to talk about dramatically improving performance for his new Pwned Passwords offering. Troy runs a popular high traffic…

Damian meets with Hamish Watson at the MVP Summit to talk about testing your database changes. Unit testing is vital in a good process but tests don't often extend to the database. Can it be done at…

Damian talks to Dylan Smith about building security into your DevOps process. Now that we're deploying to production so regularly, what do the security teams do? How do we make sure none of our…

Damian is joined by Brian Clark to show off some of the cross-platform support in VSTS and Azure. Can you use traditionally non-Microsoft languages and platforms with VSTS and Azure? You sure can! In…

Damian is joined by Abel Wang to show us one way of tracking and deploying database changes alongside your code. The SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) project type in Visual Studio allows you to keep an up…

Damian is joined by Abel Wang to walk through using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to deploy applications to on-premises servers. As Cloud Developer Advocates, we focus so much on deploying to…

Damian talks to JD Trask about closing the loop in your software development cycle and focusing on how your customers use your software - the story doesn't end when your software hits production! JD…

Damian talks to James Montemagno about using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and App Center to manage your mobile application DevOps process. James explains how you can use both tools together,…

In this episode Damian Brady sits down with Dmitry Lyalin to kickoff the brand new The DevOps Lab show! This new Channel 9 show will focus on all things DevOps at Microsoft and cover many product…