I hope that you’ve recovered from your Thanksgiving feast and you’re sitting around comfortably, binge-watching sitcoms and reading the latest news in DevOps. No? Is that just me? Well, now it can be you, too, because here’s what I’ve been reading today.<\/p>\n
Create an Azure DevOps Services Self-Hosted Agent in Azure Using Terraform, Cloud-init\u2014and Azure DevOps Pipelines!<\/a>\nThe more I play with Terraform the more excited I get about it. And Graham Smith has written up a great walkthrough introducing Terraform, cloud-init and Azure Pipelines to help get me up to speed.<\/p>\n Tutorial: Terraforming your JAMstack on Azure with Gatsby, Azure Pipelines, and Git<\/a>\nI’m a big devotee of JAMstack – writing markdown and then using Azure Pipelines to render that into a simple and cheap static website. Elena Neroslavskaya has a great post introducing – you guessed it: Terraform – to the mix.<\/p>\n Work with remote in Git to share your code<\/a>\nDevOps isn’t just about the tools – it’s about the culture and the processes, too. But it’s hard to imagine a modern workflow without Git, so this tutorial on sharing code by Mohit Goyal is incribly important.<\/p>\n Beyond “Lift-and-Shift”: Application Modernization with Microsoft Azure<\/a>\nI meet a lot of people who are starting their cloud migration journey by “lifting and shifting” their existing on-premises workloads into virtual machines. That’s a great start, but it’s just that – a start. Stephen Abdo looks at some of the reasons to modernize your applications to take real advantage of the cloud.<\/p>\n Events<\/strong>\nThere are some great DevOps-focused events coming up – Red Gate’s SQL in the City Streamed<\/a> event will bring you up to speed on compliance<\/em> in Database DevOps on December 12. And if you’re in healthcare development and IT sector, don’t miss the webinar Make the Most of Azure DevOps in Healthcare<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you’re in the UK, don’t miss Real World DevOps<\/a>, taking place next week in Manchester and London. And don\u2019t forget the amazing Azure DevOps launch events<\/a> going on around the world from now through March; there might be one near you!<\/p>\n