Azure PodCast – DevOps Simplified
The kind folks over at The Azure Podcast had me on as a guest where I chatted with them about some interesting ways customers have leveraged Azure DevOps pipelines to address complex management of large cloud deployments for doing simple tasks such as deploying new software to more complex operations such as patching or tearing environments up and down.
In my experiences as a developer/software engineer I often find that those responsible for infrastructure deployments often believe tooling with the word ‘Dev’ in them is not for them. This couldn’t be further from the truth as Azure DevOps doesn’t just provide facilities to build/test code but also has powerful capabilities you can leverage to automate ‘tasks’ on infrastructure sitting literally anywhere: Your data-center, Co-location facilities, other clouds or Azure! The way this is accomplished is by installing an agent on your Linux, Windows or MacOS machines that pull operations/tasks needed to be performed securely (over port 443) from the DevOps environment hosted in Azure. This is an extremely firewall friendly way to automate tasks and operations on infrastructure you own/operate. Stay tuned for more to come on how some of my customers have addressed some challenging situations!
About the Author
Ryan Berry
Hello! I am a technology professional with over 20 years of successfully selling, designing, and implementing IT solutions of all sizes. I have a sincere passion for technology both inside and outside of work involving myself with community events such as .NET user groups, FIRST robotics and in helping college bound high schoolers prepare for success through mock technology interviews. It’s easy to be successful in a role that you love and coming to work for me means I get to play with new and innovative technologies to bring bold new ideas to customers solving their business challenges. In my current role, I take the complex world of the cloud and Microsoft Azure, a portfolio of capabilities consisting of over 100 products, and help customers in properly selecting capabilities, tooling, and technical frameworks to product results. My vast technical background spanning technologies such as embedded development, Windows debugging and C# to open-source technologies such as PHP, Python, MySQL and Linux aids allows me to quickly dive into a problem and identify solutions producing quick results using the power of the cloud!
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