Join us at #MSCreate: DevOps on @LearnTV October 21, 2021
Microsoft’s Donovan Brown defines DevOps as, “the union of people, process, and products to enable continuous delivery of value to our end users.” Microsoft Create is back again and by popular demand, we are going to talk about everything DevOps. Join us at “Create: DevOps” as we discuss automation, cloud-native, infrastructure as code, and security. When: Thursday, October 21, 2021 9 AM PT – 12 PM PT Where: Microsoft LearnTV How: Register here for free DevOps Community Experts I’ll be hosting “Create: DevOps” on Microsoft Learn TV on October 21. 2021 at 9 AM PT. I’ll be joined by Steven Murawski as we welcome presentations from some amazing speakers from across DevOps. We’ll have expert community leaders like Donovan Brown, Martin Woodward, Quintessence Anx, April Edwards, Alex Hidalgo, and Kat Cosgrove speaking about subjects that make up five key pillars of DevOps. We’ll cover subjects such as culture shift, implementation of automation, cloud native applications, security, and a panel on observability. Together with our community speakers, we share with you how to break down the silos of development and operations teams with the tools and processes that set them up for success. DevOps is more than just CI/CD, it’s about cultural shifts within your organization. DevOps: A Cultural Shift DevOps looks to bring people together in IT organizations through shared goals, increased collaboration, and focus on improvement. While technology plays a key role in DevOps by implementing tools for automation, time management, and communication, ultimately a cultural shift within organizations is critical for success. DevOps is a strategy that’s been proven to work. As per the 2019 DevOps Research and Assessment report, high-performing teams using DevOps see 208x more frequent deployments, 106x faster from commit to deploy, 7x lower change failure rate, and a much faster incident recovery. This all leads to greater reliability of our systems. You’ll also get a chance to take part in a hands-on lab that provides an introductory look at some of the tools that give teams ways to automate and deploy their applications and infrastructure. Our team will be showing you how to deploy an Azure Kubernetes Cluster with the help of Infrastructure as Code tool Bicep and GitHub Actions. We’ll also explain how to create a more secure environment in sharing sensitive information by utilizing Azure Key Vault. This workshop is geared toward those just getting started with DevOps tooling. Steven Murawski, Marcus Felling, and I will demonstrate how to implement a fully automated deployment using CI/CD methodology powered by GitHub Actions. Let’s reduce our manual work and automate all the things! Get even more from this Create: DevOps event! Earn an Azure Hero Builder Badge Both Bicep and GitHub actions are great tools to help automate your infrastructure deployments on Azure. Be sure to stay with us till the end of the Workshop and learn how to automate deploying a Bicep file to Azure to earn an Azure Hero Builder Badge. We are always working to empower technical practitioners of all backgrounds. Microsoft created Azure Heroes to inspire developers to learn, coach, and build on Azure and promote a healthy, inclusive community. Earn yours while at Create: DevOps and show the world how much you’d like to give to the community. Plant a tree when you join Create: DevOps and complete a Learn Module Create cultural shifts through DevOps while impacting the planet with Ecosia. When you join Create: DevOps and complete one of the Microsoft Learn modules, we will plant a tree on your behalf. Our goal through this event is to plant over 1,440 new trees. Help restore the environment and communities all around the world. Learn more about our initiative here. Certificates will be issued after completion of Learn Module. Microsoft Learn is one of the best places to get free technical and conceptual training on subjects related to DevOps. You’ll be able to educate yourself on the latest Azure products, methods of implementation, and even have a little fun by earning experience points. Be a level ten wizard! Challenge your friends! Start your certification journey to become a DevOps Engineer with Microsoft Learn. See you there I really hope you join us for this great opportunity to hear about DevOps culture, tools, and cloud native implementation. We look forward to you being part of this very special event. When: Thursday, October 21, 2021 9 AM PT – 12 PM PT Where: Microsoft LearnTV How: Register here for freeTop Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2021.09.24
The top stories from the #AzureDevOps #community for 2021.09.24 are here! It’s officially the fall season here in Brooklyn, NY! The leaves change, it gets a little darker earlier, and of course, the weather begins to cool. But none of these changes are going to keep me from finding great DevOps content every week. This week is no different as we dive into posts on Azure DevOps, Databricks, and more. Before we hop into the stories, I wanted to tell you about one of the best video series on DevOps out there. Have you checked out The DevOps Lab yet? One of my favorite people, April Edwards, brings you fresh DevOps content in this Channel 9 series. This week she talks with Chris Maneu about Infra as Code. So we’re ready! Let’s get into this week’s posts. How to: Project Stats Mapping on Azure DevOps Vinicius Moura returns with how to create a report about your Azure DevOps organization. Using Azure DevOps Repos In Your Azure Cloud Shell MVP Anderson Patricio gives you some CLI tips for cloning your repo. Joe Guadagno on the Latest in Azure DevOps – Episode 159 Joe of Rocket Mortgage joins Jeffery on the latest episode of the Azure DevOps podcast including topics like tools, managing developer teams, and more. DevOps App Security Expert: ‘Use Microservices’ David Ramel talks to Carlos Rivas about creating secure architecture for your IT solutions by implementing microservices. Automating DevOps to Create Standard Tasks Mike Stephenson (aka AJ’s Dad) walks through setting up Power Automate for generating your Azure DevOps work items. How-To Deploy your Synapse Workspace Artifacts to a Managed VNET Synapse Workspace Rui Cunha shares this post about about deploying your Synapse workspace along Azure DevOps. Part 1: Implementing CI/CD on Databricks Using Databricks Notebooks and Azure DevOps This is the first part of a two-part series of blog posts that show how to configure and build end-to-end MLOps solutions on Databricks with notebooks and Repos API. Thank you to all this week’s contributors! We appreciate the posts by Vinicius, Anderson, Jeffery, David, Mike, and Rui. If you’ve written an article about Azure DevOps or find some great content about DevOps on Azure, please share it with the #AzureDevOps hashtag on Twitter! Happy Friday, may your deploys go as planned and your weekend be fun!AzureFunBytes – Getting started with Bicep
AzureFunBytes is a weekly opportunity to learn more about the fundamentals and foundations that make up Azure. It’s a chance for me to understand more about what people across the Azure organization do and how they do it. Every week we get together at 11 AM Pacific on Microsoft LearnTV and learn more about Azure. AzureFunBytes – Getting started with Bicep have been playing with with Azure Bicep, a new Microsoft approach to deploying Azure resources using Infrastructure as Code. Today I’d like to show you how to create a basic template and deploy it to Azure. Then I will look at how quickstart templates are converted in the Bicep Playground. We’ll look at the Bicep CLI install, the VS Code plug-in, and of course Azure CLI. Bicep is a Domain Specific Language (DSL) for creating your Azure resources. While there are various methods for writing infrastructure as code (IaC), such as Ruby, etc. Bicep aims to reduce complexity by introducing a cleaner syntax for you to reuse your code more often. Bicep is a transparent abstraction of ARM templates, which differs from using another general-purpose programming language. Just like ARM templates, Bicep relies on the JSON syntax to compile and deploy your desired infrastructure. What is Bicep (Preview)? Install Bicep (Preview) Bicep on GitHub Quickstart: Create Bicep files with Visual Studio Code Bicep Playground ARM template documentation Tutorial: Create and deploy first Azure Resource Manager Bicep file Bicep on Twitter Learn about Azure fundamentals with me! Live stream is available on Twitch, YouTube, and LearnTV at 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET Thursday. You can also find the recordings here as well: AzureFunBytes on Twitch AzureFunBytes on YouTube Azure DevOps YouTube Channel Follow AzureFunBytes on TwitterOne Year Update: Only constant is change...
Rick Claus talks with Donovan Brown about a recent internal reorganization to build a team specifically pulled together to span the operations spectrum of folks who specialize in all types of infrastructure architecture, DevOps practices, DevSecOps specialties, virtualization platforms, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and more. Regardless if you are on-prem only, hybrid or a cloud native team or organization, if you work in some form of IT operations space supporting your technical infrastructure used by internal end users, external customers or development teams - there are resources here for you to connect with.
