Top stories from the VSTS community – 2017.07.07
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics.
TOP STORIES
- Work Item Customization Simplified! VSTS vs TFS – Steven Borg
Team Foundation Server (TFS) has always had work item customization power as one if it’s strengths. The experience, based on XML, was fraught with complexity. - Automating .NET Core deployments to different platforms with Cake – Jeremy Lindsay
Recently I’ve found a better way to manage my build and deployment tasks. At my local .NET user group, we had a demonstration of Cake which is a tool that allows me to orchestrate my build and deployment process in C#. - DevOps with Kubernetes and VSTS: Part 2 – Colin Dembovsky
In this post, I will show you how to take the local development into CI/CD and walk through creating an automated build/release pipeline using VSTS. We’ll create an Azure Container Registry and Azure Container Services using k8s as the orchestration mechanism. - Some tips on Search Server for TFS 2017 – Matteo Emili
Code Search is a brilliant feature based off Elastic Search. I wanted to summarize a few tips from my relatively limited experience with Search Server for TFS 2017, which adds Code Search to your instance. - TFS Service – Software on the hosted build server – Tarun Arora
This page is update once every day with the list of software installed on the TFS hosted build server. - Visual Studio Marketplace Metrics – Greg Trevellick
See the total install count and other metrics for all your Visual Studio Marketplace extensions with just one click. This extension allows the user to see the install count totals and other metrics for extensions in the Visual Studio Marketplace. - Reminder: open those ports for TFS – Giulio Vian
To work on TFS Aggregator I use several virtual machines running different versions of Team Foundation Server. I also install the remote debugging tools (more info on remote debugging) inside the VM and I am good to go, except for a little tweak that I always forget. - A really COOL feature we noticed on VSTS – New Release Definition Editor – ALM Rangers
It’s not really a new, but a cool feature that we explored and fell in
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VIDEOS
- Transformation Mask – Shawn Hunt + Microsoft Vancouver
The Raven, the ultimate trickster, has become a cyborg. In this Creative Collab, Shawn Hunt moves away from engaging with the handmade; exploring authenticity and our expectations of what it means to be indigenous through the removal of the hand-carved surface. - Cloud Application Development – Steven Borg and Colin Dembovsky
Wondering how cloud app development can help solve business problems? MVPs and popular instructors Colin Dembovsky and Steven Borg of Northwest Cadence offer helpful guidance on the subject, in this up-close look at Azure app development, platform as a service (PaaS), and DevOps on Visual Studio Team Services.
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