Damian is joined by Abel Wang to walk through using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to deploy applications to on-premises servers. As Cloud Developer Advocates, we focus so much on deploying to Azure - especially Platform as a Service (Paas) - but not every app is on the cloud! Thankfully, VSTS has a solution.

Damian talks to JD Trask about closing the loop in your software development cycle and focusing on how your customers use your software - the story doesn't end when your software hits production! JD talks about why it's important to be customer-focused and shows us how tools like Raygun can expose what's happening in production. Damian on Twitter: @damovisaJD on Twitter: @traskjdRaygun on Twitter: @raygunioRaygun: https://raygun.com/

Damian talks to James Montemagno about using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and App Center to manage your mobile application DevOps process. James explains how you can use both tools together, and shows us how the Xamarin team does DevOps for their own Xamarin Live Player app. Resources: - Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS): https://www.visualstudio.com/vsts - App Center: https://www.appcenter.ms - Xamarin Live Player: https://www.xamarin.com/live

In this episode Damian Brady sits down with Dmitry Lyalin to kickoff the brand new The DevOps Lab show! This new Channel 9 show will focus on all things DevOps at Microsoft and cover many product areas include Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), related Azure cloud services and beyond. In this episode we'll introduce the show, review the many DevOps related announcements coming out of Connect(); 2017 and demo the brand new VSTS CLI (command-line tools) and Azure DevOps Projects CI/CD pipeline, both of which were just released. Resources: Introducing Azure DevOps Projects (Blog)Learn More & Get Started with Azure DevOps ProjectsDevOps @ Connect(); 2017 (Brian Harry's Blog)VSTS Release Notes: Azure DevOps Project, YAML builds, Gated releases, and Hosted Mac agents - VSTS Sprint 126 UpdateDocumentation: Download & Install VSTS CLI (command-line tools)Create a Free Account (Azure)