Announcing a new extension in Visual Studio Code for GitHub Pull Requests, built in partnership with
@GitHub
-- now available for you to preview from our marketplace. Learn all the details:
#VSTS
is now
@AzureDevOps
: 5 services you can use together or independently, including Azure Pipelines for CI/CD - free for open source and available in the GitHub CI marketplace. Learn more:
Continuously build, test & deploy to any platform or cloud using Azure Pipelines, a new CI/CD service for Linux, macOS, & Windows. Free for open source projects w/ 10 concurrent pipelines & unlimited minutes.
#AzureDevOps
Azure Pipelines is available directly from
@GitHub
and provides unlimited free builds to open source developers on Linux, Windows or macOS
#AzureDevOps
Starting today, you can edit and delete the comments on your work item's discussion! We know this has been a long awaited feature, and we're excited for you to try it out. We'll be listening closely to your feedback!
Seven years about this week we launched "Team Foundation Service Preview", the Azure-hosted services that would become VSTS. Thanks to our customers for coming on the journey; we're honored to have you by our side and we're excited about where we'll go together in the future.
Maintain an open source project? Build for free with Azure Pipelines. Unlimited build minutes across cloud hosted Linux, Windows and macOS servers. Get set-up from
@GitHub
in minutes - With ❤ from
@Microsoft
Sneak peek at an upcoming feature: we're increasing the information density in our build results. We've replaced the simple checkmarks with more insightful graphics.
We found an interesting article on running containers in
#Azure
@ThePracticalDev
.
It has some good analysis, tons of helpful advice, and some helpfully, explanatory flow charts 😉. Give it a look-over. 📖
Do you want to get notifications for your builds & releases right in
@MicrosoftTeams
as well as approve releases right from your Teams channel? Take a look at the new
#AzureDevOps
Microsoft Teams app that we just released -
#ChatOps
Microsoft Azure Load Testing is now generally available‼️
➖ Generate high-scale load
➖ Gain-actionable insights
➖ Ensure the resiliency of your applications and services
Learn more and get started with Azure Load Testing today‼️
Maintain an open source project? Build for free with Azure Pipelines. Unlimited build minutes with up to 10 concurrent jobs across cloud hosted Linux, Windows and macOS build servers. With ❤ from
@Microsoft
-
We’re excited to announce the general availability of the Azure Pipelines YAML CD features... Now with a unified YAML experience to configure each of your pipelines to do CI, CD, or CI and CD together. Nice. Check out the news:
We just launched the Deploy to Azure extension for
#VSCode
so you can create, build, and deploy apps by auto-generating a
#CICD
pipeline definition for building and deploying an app to the cloud with Azure... All without leaving the editor. Learn more:
You asked for them, and now we're rolling out some new features for Azure Pipelines...
- Multi-stage YAML pipelines (for CI and CD)
- Environments and deployment strategies
- Kubernetes support
Check out all the new goodies:
#k8s
#azuredevops
Announcing a new integration between Azure Boards and GitHub. Now you can link GitHub issues and Pull Requests (PR’s) w/ work items (bugs, features, stories, tasks etc) in Azure Boards using the AB
#1234
syntax. See how:
We've made some big improvement to the YAML editor in Azure Pipelines that'll be rolling out or coming to your
#AzureDevOps
organization over the next couple of weeks. Check out what's new:
The basics for beginners...
The architecture and thought process behind designing and developing tasks, jobs, and stages for your Azure Pipelines are paramount for a successful and mature DevOps environment.
Here are the basics to get you started.
We're excited to announce two new features to help teams
#collaborate
in Azure DevOps! The first is the ability to add reactions to comments, and the second is enabling mentions (@, ! and #) in all fields on the work item. Try them out and let us know what you think!
#azuredevops
See what's new with Azure DevOps & Azure Pipelines CI/CD service. Join us for tomorrow’s keynote live stream @ 8AM Pacific. Then tune in Sept 17th @ 8:30AM Pacific for an Interactive Mixer workshop to dive deeper:
Walk through a detailed scenario for creating a pipeline for a
#dotNET
Core app that targets
#Docker
containers in an
#Azure
Kubernetes Service in this MSDN Magazine article that explores deployment scenarios for various Azure services:
#k8s
FREE CI/CD with Azure Pipelines for open source projects!
Azure Pipelines gives you free CI/CD with unlimited minutes and 10 parallel jobs for every open source project.
#Linux
,
#macOS
& Windows pools.
#devops
Introducing
#AzureDevOps
Server 2019 RC1 - now w/ a new UI & a multitude of new features:
- added support for Azure SQL
- release management improvements
- go-live license making it suitable for production use today
Learn more:
Azure DevOps Server 2019 is available now if you want to self-host on-premises. Time to plan your TFS upgrades to get all the latest bits. To learn more see
What's new with Azure Pipelines? ...announcing some new (and much requested) features for Azure Pipelines, including:
- Multi-stage YAML pipelines (for CI and CD)
- Environments and deployment strategies
- Kubernetes support
Learn more:
#asuredevops
We've largely recovered from the datacenter outage in South Central US. Some package feeds are still coming back online. But if you're seeing 503s logging in, please let us know. And again, our sincere apologies on this interruption.
Deploy your code the right way w/ Azure Pipelines. This article explores deployment scenarios for Azure services & walks through a detailed scenario for creating a pipeline for a
#dotNET
Core app that targets
#Docker
containers in an
#Azure
#K8s
Service.
This is the first part in a new series about culture & DevOps - it's not just about using the tools it's about understanding and developing a culture of automation. Check it out:
Do you manually compile a list of changes to be included in release notes? If yes, you will be excited to know that you can now automate creation & modification of
#GitHub
Releases directly from Azure Pipelines. See how:
News from @
#MSFTConnect
, integration between Azure Boards & GitHub. Now you can take advantage of the rich project management capabilities; including Kanban boards, backlogs, sprint planning tools, queries, and multiple work item types. See it in action:
Introducing Microsoft Playwright Testing: a scalable, end-to-end testing service for modern web apps.
Get test suite results faster by testing across multiple OS and browser combinations without worrying about complex testing infrastructure.
Learn more.
<3 learning new tech? The Azure DevOps team put together a great program so you can dive in & generate fully functional samples in your own workspace.
In his latest post, Premier App Dev Manager Larry Duff discusses these new
#AzureDevOps
hands-on labs:
Automate the change management process, reduce the chances of human error, and increase deployment agility.
Now available in Azure Pipelines, ServiceNow Change Management extension for Azure DevOps. Check it out:
The Microsoft
#DevOps
blog has moved to a new platform with a modern, clean design and powerful features that will make it easy for you to discover and share great content. Give it a spin:
Do you want to learn more about Azure DevOps? We're partnering with meet-up organisers all around the world to bring you local in-person and virtual events where you can learn more and meet others in your community.
We’re excited to announce that Azure DevOps Projects is now generally available in the Azure Portal, making it easier for developers to deploy to the Azure and create CI/CD pipelines with pre-configured resources .
Create an Azure DevOps Project today
We teamed up with
@MSFTBlockchain
on a new whitepaper, "DevOps for Blockchain Smart Contracts" that covers how to develop
#blockchain
applications with an eye toward CI/CD in consortium environments.
We have enabled reactions on our internal account, but want to test it out with some external users! If you are interested in this feature, please DM us and we can get it enabled for you!
#reactions
Introduce yourself to Grafana, an Open Source dashboarding tool, for aggregating different sources like Azure Monitor, Kubernetes, AWS, and Docker. This article takes you from installation thru integration and then on to building out powerful dashboards.
In this
#MSBuild
session replay, we see how to create Build & Release (CI & CD) pipelines using YAML files in Azure , we get a demo of how to review the code changes that went into, and the build logs that come out of your release:
Build a CI/CD pipeline for API Management as you walk through a conceptual framework for implementing a CI/CD pipeline for deploying changes to APIs published with Azure API Management.
Right out of the box,
#AzureDevOps
includes tons of great services – but wouldn't you just <3 a set of demos to help you get started working with it all? Sure you do: Azure DevOps Demos – At Your Fingertips!
Feature flags deployed, demos rehearsed & studio prepped – come join us on September 11th at 8am PDT / 17:00 CEST to learn more about
#AzureDevOps
with
@DonovanBrown
, Jamie Cool and some very special guests
We've added a detailed migration guide for projects migrating from Travis to Azure Pipelines. This guide will help you take advantage of Azure Pipelines hosted build agents for Linux, Windows and macOS.
"...a great addition to anyone that is passionate about evangelizing
#DevOps
within their company..."
App Dev Manager, Kerry Duggento gives us a review of the
#DevOps
Handbook. Read more:
Happy Holidays from all of us working on Azure DevOps - may your pagers be silent this festive period. Wishing you good live site health for the new year.
We've got
#AzureDevOps
learning paths on Microsoft Learn.
Now you can gain new skills with step-by-step guidance.... Check out all the helpful tutorials and other goodies here:
Bring your Visual Studio Team Services dashboards right where the conversation is happening in Microsoft Teams with the new MS Teams Extension for VSTS.
#Analytics
for Azure DevOps is here! With the Sprint 150 Update, Analytics for
#AzureDevOps
will become generally available. Take advantage of the new capabilities to make data driven decisions and streamline your
#DevOps
lifecycle.
Announcing the official release of Azure DevOps Server 2019! Bring the power of
#AzureDevOps
into your dedicated environment using all popular programming languages, any platform (
#macOS
,
#Linux
, &
#Windows
), cloud, or even on-prem environments:
Reporting is important.
Just announced... - New Analytics for
#AzureDevOps
Services features will now be included at no additional cost. Changes are generally available and rolling out to all customers soon.
You've been asking for some "good practices” when looking to leverage a repo consisting of YAML templates.
This article from our Developer Support folk gives you some tips and resources. 📖 Azure DevOps Pipelines: Practices for Scaling Templates,
With Project Paper Cuts, the Azure Boards team has updated state order on the work item. Previously, states appeared in alphabetical order. Now, states will be ordered to match the workflow:
❓Want to stop storing secrets and certificates in Azure service connections❓
❓Tired rotating secrets whenever they expire❓
Announcing the public preview of workload identity federation for Azure service connections. Get the info here.
It's easier to get started with work item tracking in Azure DevOps with the new Basic process. Don't worry about Agile or Scrum, just get started with a simple "to do" list.
...so you've made mistake in your commit -- or your commit history is a mess and you're wondering how to fix it all... Well, this post will help make you a Git expert so you can fix all that:
Announcing the launch of Azure Pipelines app for
#Slack
.
Now you can use the Azure Pipelines app to easily monitor the events for your pipelines & manage subscriptions for completed builds, releases, pending approvals & more. Check it out:
In this free 4-part webinar series,
@Sidney_Andrews
intros us to Azure Pipelines, CI with
#GitHub
and Azure, CD using Azure Pipelines and package management with Azure Artifacts. Check it out:
Don't leave the database out of your DevOps strategy; learn how to include it with
@brianrandell
's new course, DevOps for the Database with VSTS and Azure.
Delivery Plans is now in public preview...
Learn more about reviewing the schedule of stories or features your teams plan to deliver in this latest feature update and see what it means to you,