Introducing: Azure DevOps

Yesterday Microsoft announced the evolution of DevOps. Or rather the evolution of DevOps tooling from Microsoft known as Visual Studio Team Services: Azure DevOps.

Azure DevOps represents 15 years of engineering in services to help developers turn an idea into production code. Azure DevOps offers Pipelines, Boards, Artifacts, Repos and Test Plans to cover all aspects of modern software engineering.

Azure DevOps comes with a major overhaul in the UI experience that will be enabled by default for new projects. Existing projects continue to use the old UI unless this setting is explicitly set. The new experience will be enabled for existing users by default in the coming months.

Open Source projects can now use Azure Pipelines as part of Azure DevOps for free CI/CD. Public projects can be used to fuel Open Source projects with committers around the world working on the same shared project.

Agent instrumentation for Log Analytics based services (such as Azure Security Center)

5 September 2018·706 words·4 mins

I’ve had a question today coming from a colleague that has no prior experience in System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). He wanted to know how data flows from connected agents (regardless of Windows or Linux) to Log Analytics and subsequently to Azure Security Center.

Azure Active Directory Login for Ubuntu VMs in preview

8 May 2018·93 words·1 min

Centralized integration with an identity provider is a common ask. It provides increased security and removes the reliance on out-of-band managed user accounts.

Using Update Management in Isolated Environments

4 May 2018·475 words·3 mins

Almost all Azure management services run in/for any cloud. Among them is Update Management which automates OS patching for both Linux and Windows machines whether they are running on-premises, in Azure or in other clouds.

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