DevOps, Git, and Agile updates from the team building Azure DevOps
November 24, 2017Nov 24, 201711/24/17Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics.
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Running Selenium Tests in Docker using VSTS Release Management – Colin DembovskyYou can spin up a Selenium grid (or hub) container and then join as many node containers as you want to (the node container is where the tests will actually run).
November 22, 2017Nov 22, 201711/22/17We’ve just wrapped up the Microsoft Connect(); conference that took place last week in New York and online, with sessions streamed live from New York and Seattle. The Connect(); conference highlights developer tools like Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and the rest of the Visual Studio family of products.
November 22, 2017Nov 22, 201711/22/17The Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) Analytics OData feed has been promoted to full public preview, available to everyone. Developers can use OData to access VSTS Analytics to write 3rd party or custom widgets. Or, write any tool or extension that takes advantage of the VSTS Analytics data model.
November 21, 2017Nov 21, 201711/21/17We’re very excited to announce that we’ve added the ability to fork Git repositories hosted in Visual Studio Team Services. If you work on open source projects, then you’re probably already familiar with repository forks. A fork takes a Git repository and creates a duplicate copy of it –
November 20, 2017Nov 20, 201711/20/17From the day Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) first went live, customers wanted a path to migrate their existing on-premises Team Foundation Server (TFS) data. For a long time, only low-fidelity paths existed – migrating a subset of resources at their “tip” values,
November 20, 2017Nov 20, 201711/20/17Until now, we’ve focused on making Package Management in Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server the best place to store your private NuGet and npm packages, but we haven’t focused as much on the packages you use from public sources like NuGet.org.
November 17, 2017Nov 17, 201711/17/17Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics.
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First Look at VSTS Release Management Approval Gates – Mike DouglasWhen approval gates were first announced my mind started thinking about all of the ways this could be used.
November 16, 2017Nov 16, 201711/16/17Removing barriers to DevOps in the cloud
Teams developing software for Apple devices have limited options when migrating to the cloud. Because such apps must be built on Macs, and because there are few cloud-hosted Mac offerings, many teams are forced to provide their own Mac hardware for CI/CD while the rest of their DevOps are hosted in the cloud.
November 16, 2017Nov 16, 201711/16/17Continuous monitoring is an integral part of safe deployments and DevOps pipelines. Ensuring the application in a release is healthy after deployment is as critical as the success of the deployment process. Enterprises adopt various tools for automatic detection of application health in production and for keeping track of customer reported incidents.
November 15, 2017Nov 15, 201711/15/17In today’s world, organizations need to innovate and get to market faster. This requires learning latest technologies, using them in your product and deploying at a faster pace.
Adopting Azure is one such scenario. Existing on-premise apps are getting migrated to Azure and new applications are getting developed to take advantage of Azure services.
