{"id":45765,"date":"2018-07-21T02:05:43","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T02:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/devops\/?p=45765"},"modified":"2019-02-14T15:48:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T23:48:47","slug":"top-stories-from-the-microsoft-devops-community-2018-07-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/top-stories-from-the-microsoft-devops-community-2018-07-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community \u2013 2018.07.20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I&#8217;ve been busy talking with Open Source developers and users at OSCON, explaining <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ethomson\/status\/1019995027097862149\">how VSTS can enable their builds with our hosted (or on-premises!) build agents<\/a>.  Meanwhile, we&#8217;ve seen some incredible podcasts and blog posts about DevOps in Azure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Shows\/DevOps-Lab\/Azure-Automation-Runbooks-with-PowerShell\">The DevOps Lab: Azure Automation Runbooks with PowerShell<\/a>\nDamian Brady sits down with MVP Thomas Rayner to talk about Azure Automation Runbooks &#8211; a handy way to configure and execute PowerShell inside Azure &#8211; all from the command-line.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/cloudshelleditor\/\">Announcing the Azure Cloud Shell editor in collaboration with Visual Studio Code<\/a>\nBrendan Burns explains some of the new integrations into Azure Cloud Shell, including authorization for Terraform, Ansible and InSpec, &#8220;Try It&#8221; experiences for documentation, and an embedding of Visual Studio Code inside Azure Cloud Shell.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deliveron.com\/blog\/azure-devops-projects-adding-additional-environment\/\">Azure DevOps Projects &#8211; Adding an Additional Environment<\/a>\nMike Douglas shows the ease and the power of Azure DevOps Projects: how they provide a foundation for building a full CI\/CD pipeline for all environments and how to extend Azure DevOps Projects to additional environments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sharepointeurope.com\/deploy-azure-app-services-multiple-regions-within-subscription-vsts-trick\/\">Deploy Azure App Services to Multiple Regions Within the Same Subscription<\/a>\nGenerally when you&#8217;re deploying to App Services, you can easily use the Deploy task.  But if you want to setup a High-Availability environment, St\u00e9phane Eyskens shows you how to deploy an App Service to multiple regions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/colinsalmcorner.com\/post\/managing-credentials-and-secrets-in-vsts-release-management\">Managing Credentials and Secrets in VSTS Release Management<\/a>\nDeployments always needs secrets &#8211; whether it&#8217;s credentials for a database or another service. Colin Dembovsky explains why you should <strong>never<\/strong> store your secrets in source control and how you can protect them with strong secrets management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I&#8217;ve been busy talking with Open Source developers and users at OSCON, explaining how VSTS can enable their builds with our hosted (or on-premises!) build agents. Meanwhile, we&#8217;ve seen some incredible podcasts and blog posts about DevOps in Azure. The DevOps Lab: Azure Automation Runbooks with PowerShell Damian Brady sits down with MVP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":233,"featured_media":45953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-devops"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>This week I&#8217;ve been busy talking with Open Source developers and users at OSCON, explaining how VSTS can enable their builds with our hosted (or on-premises!) build agents. Meanwhile, we&#8217;ve seen some incredible podcasts and blog posts about DevOps in Azure. 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