Derrick Cawthon

Fast Start: Infrastructure as Code Using Azure DevTestLabs

June 19, 2018 Jun 19, 2018 06/19/18

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In this post, Premier Developer Consultant Derrick Cawthon teaches you how to get started with Infrastructure as Code quickly and easily using Azure DevTestLabs and VSTS. He shows how simple it is to use these two technologies to be able to deploy on-demand.A lot of folks understand that Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a great idea and an ...

TFS 2018–XAML is back?!

June 16, 2018 Jun 16, 2018 06/16/18

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In this post, Premier Developer Consultant Derrick Cawthon weighs in on one of the latest announcements that TFS 2018 will include XAML builds. Starting in TFS 2017 it was announced that XAML builds were being deprecated. No big surprise to anyone paying attention as they are an older build system which had to go at some point. However this ...

Sharing Deployment Groups Across Team Projects in VSTS

June 14, 2018 Jun 14, 2018 06/14/18

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Premier Developer Consultant Derrick Cawthon walks through how to share deployment groups across team projects in VSTS, so you can take full advantage of your infrastructure and maximize investment in cloud services.One of the many recent enhancements to VSTS (Visual Studio Team Services) is the adding of Deployment Groups back in 2017. ...

Create Your First CI Pipeline in 10 Minutes or Less

June 10, 2018 Jun 10, 2018 06/10/18

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In this post, Premier Developer Consultant Derrick Cawthon shares how to quickly create a continuous integration pipeline in VSTS, so teams can start pursuing their DevOps journeys.During your DevOps journey typically the first item you will want to do (after establishing a good process for the team) is setup a Continuous Integration (CI) ...

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