{"id":60272,"date":"2020-11-20T08:30:41","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T16:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/?p=60272"},"modified":"2020-11-19T13:52:35","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T21:52:35","slug":"top-stories-from-the-microsoft-devops-community-2020-11-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/top-stories-from-the-microsoft-devops-community-2020-11-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community \u2013 2020.11.20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Friday! We&#8217;ve had a really strong week of content. Feast your eyes on these varied topics &#8211; from pipeline components and build agents, to working with Java or Go apps, to testing databases in your CI. Our community has something for everyone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marcusfelling.com\/blog\/2020\/azure-pipelines-yaml-templates-vs-custom-tasks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Azure Pipelines: YAML Templates VS. Custom Tasks<\/a><br \/>\nMarcus explores two ways to create reusable components in Azure Pipelines.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cgfootman.com\/2020\/11\/08\/azure-devops-scale-set-agents-part-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Azure DevOps Scale set agents (Part 2)<\/a><br \/>\nChris explores how he uses Packer to create VM images for build agent scale sets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiffanychen.dev\/Modify-Azure-App-Deploy-With-Post-Deploy-Script\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Modify Java Web App Azure Deployments with Post-Deployment Script<\/a><br \/>\nTiffany shares how she deals with a naming convention challenge when deploying Java builds into Azure App Service from Azure Pipelines.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@github.gkarthiks\/golang-app-build-version-via-azure-devops-pipelines-fd4d800bf465\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GoLang App build Version via Azure DevOps Pipelines<\/a><br \/>\nKarthikeyan explains how to inject the Azure Pipelines build version into a GoLang app.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sentryone.com\/blog\/testing-your-database-backups-using-sql-server-on-linux-containers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Testing Your Database Backups Using SQL Server on Linux Containers<\/a><br \/>\nJamie shows us how to test database backups with containers locally and in our CI pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve written an article about Azure DevOps or find some great content about DevOps on Azure, please share it with the #AzureDevOps hashtag on Twitter!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Friday! We&#8217;ve had a really strong week of content. Feast your eyes on these varied topics &#8211; from pipeline components and build agents, to working with Java or Go apps, to testing databases in your CI. Our community has something for everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19707,"featured_media":54064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-azure","category-community"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Happy Friday! We&#8217;ve had a really strong week of content. Feast your eyes on these varied topics &#8211; from pipeline components and build agents, to working with Java or Go apps, to testing databases in your CI. Our community has something for everyone.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}