In this episode, Damien sits down with Alison Hawke, QA practice lead, World Wide Technology, to talk about how changing the way your team does testing can improve your software, and make your lives more fun. With bonus eavesdropping, apprentices, donuts, and soak tests. They talk about what to automate, how to train a newbie QA, and why QA people have one of the best jobs in software. Jump To:  [03:06] QA people eavesdrop all the time[03:11] Bribery as a means to better software[04:38] Test automation, what and why[06:45] Soak testing to make small defects huge[07:21] Starting a QA practice in a company[08:35] Training QA apprenticesFor More Information:  Article: 'Why Do We Use Embedded Quality Advocates in Agile Application Development?'TDD JavaScriptTalk slides: 'Building a QA practice from Scratch' Create a Free Azure AccountAzure DevOps DocsAzure DevOps YouTube

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The DevOps Lab has been reimagined for FY22! April Edwards will continue to bring you the latest and greatest in DevOps and engage the viewers and the community in the show. April always welcomes your input! We'll go beyond the buzzword and show you how to not only solve your DevOps problems using a wide range of tools and techniques but how these tools and techniques are put to use in the real world! Beginning, August 31, 2021, tune in every Tuesday at 7:00 AM pacific for a new episode! Find our playlist on YouTube: Azure DevOps YouTube

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Roberth Strand from Crayon joins April today to help us understand GitOps as an operation model - how does GitOps enable faster and more secure deployments - and where to go to learn more about it. Jump to:[01:45] What is GitOps[03:41] GitOps working group and OpenGitOps[09:20] How to get involved Learn more:What is Open GitOps http://opengitops.devOpen GitOps Project https://github.com/open-gitops/projectAzure DevOps Docs https://aka.ms/AzureDevOps/DocsAzure DevOps YouTube https://aka.ms/AzDevOpsYouTubeCreate your free Azure DevOps account https://aka.ms/AzureDevOpsStartFreeAzure Free Credit https://aka.ms/DevOps/AzureFreeCredit Follow April https://twitter.com/TheAprilEdwardsFollow Roberth https://twitter.com/RoberthTweets Check out new episodes every week at https://aka.ms/TheDevOpsLab and https://aka.ms/AzDevOpsYouTube

DevOps Lab | What is GitOps? Why we need it and how to implement it.

On this week's episode, Jay Gordon is here to walk us through how to use the features in Microsoft Teams to streamline communication when changes to GitHub repos occur. He'll demo how to improve collaboration and efficiency using the tools we have at our fingertips! Jump to:[02:52] Connecting GitHub to Teams[11:37] Committing a change to GitHub[13:42] Viewing notification in Teams Learn more:Collaborate in teams and channels with Microsoft Teamshttps://aka.ms/GitHubTeamsTDLGitHub Enterprise | Microsoft AppSource https://aka.ms/GHETeamsTDLGitHub for Teams | Microsoft AppSource https://aka.ms/GHTeamsTDLNext-level Collaboration with GitHub and Microsoft Teamshttps://aka.ms/GHTeams Azure DevOps Docs https://aka.ms/AzureDevOps/Docs​Azure DevOps YouTube https://aka.ms/AzDevOpsYouTubeCreate your free Azure DevOps account https://aka.ms/AzureDevOpsStartFree Follow April https://twitter.com/TheAprilEdwardsFollow Jay https://twitter.com/jaydestro Check out new episodes every week at https://aka.ms/TheDevOpsLab and https://aka.ms/AzDevOpsYouTube

DevOps Lab | Increasing Collaboration with Communication: GitHub and Microsoft Teams

On today's episode of The DevOps Lab, Matt Stratton from Pulumi is back to demo how developers can use Pulumi as their "window to the cloud" to provision services and solutions via Azure. Jump to:[00:50] Why is Pulumi on Azure awesome?[02:03] How the Pulumi service works[02:50] Creating a Pulumi program[04:22] The Pulumi Azure Native provider[11:21] Running our Pulumi program  Learn more: Pulumi Get Started with Azure https://www.pulumi.com/docs/get-started/azurePulumi registry https://www.pulumi.com/registry/Azure DevOps Docs https://aka.ms/AzureDevOps/DocsAzure DevOps YouTube https://aka.ms/AzureDevOpsYouTube​Create your free Azure DevOps account https://aka.ms/AzureDevOpsStartFreeFollow April https://twitter.com/TheAprilEdwardsFollow Matt https://twitter.com/mattstrattonCheck out new episodes every week at https://aka.ms/TheDevOpsLab and https://aka.ms/AzDevOpsYouTube

DevOps Lab | Infrastructure as Software with Pulumi and Azure

Welcome to the second episode in our HashiCorp series, Kyle Ruddy is back to show us how we can use terraform to manage both Azure and Github with code. While many people only use it to provision infrastructure, it actually manages all sorts of cool stuff! Check it out. Jump to:[00:30] Why should we Terraform everything?[02:20] Order a Pizza with Terraform[03:00] Managing GitHub Repositories with Terraform[06:13] Demo: GitHub Provider for Terraform Learn more:GitHub Provider for Terraformhttps://registry.terraform.io/providers/integrations/githubGet Started using Terraformhttps://learn.hashicorp.com/terraformGet Started using the GitHub Provider for Terraform https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/terraform/github-user-teams?in=terraform/it-saas Azure DevOps Docs https://aka.ms/AzureDevOps/Docs​Azure DevOps YouTube https://aka.ms/AzureDevOpsYouTube​​Follow April https://twitter.com/TheAprilEdwardsFollow Kyle https://twitter.com/kmruddy

DevOps Lab | Hashicorp Series | Episode 2 | How to terraform everything

In this first episode of our Hashicorp series, Kyle Ruddy joins April to show how you can use terraform to manage both Azure and Github with code. While many people only use it to provision infrastructure, it actually manages all sorts of stuff! Check it out. Jump to:[00:57] Terraform 1.0 Feature Overview[02:14] Compatibility between Terraform 1.0 and prior versions[03:21] Upgrade process to Terraform 1.0 Learn more: Terraform 1.0 Compatibility Promiseshttps://www.terraform.io/docs/language/v1-compatibility-promises.htmlTerraform Upgrade Guidehttps://www.terraform.io/upgrade-guides/1-0.htmlGet Started using Terraform with Azurehttps://learn.hashicorp.com/collections/terraform/azure-get-started Azure DevOps Docs https://aka.ms/AzureDevOps/Docs​Azure DevOps YouTube https://aka.ms/AzureDevOpsYouTube​​Follow April https://twitter.com/TheAprilEdwardsFollow Kyle https://twitter.com/kmruddy

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