I can’t use my MSDN Azure benefit anymore, because I forgot to switch off a Virtual Machine. It happens too often. Although it is easy to schedule a virtual Machine via the Azure portal (see: Script Center and azure automation ), users still forget to configure it or don’t take the time o...
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Already did a lot of post about Development and Test on Azure … see small list below. Now a promotional video about our Dev and Test services … Make your team cost aware … cost driven development The DevOps battle field … provision, configure and deploy environments. Insight an...
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Cost is an interesting thing when developing on and for Azure. A team now has direct influence on the run cost of the different environments. Not only development and test but also staging and production is in their influence zone. With the right insight in environment cost a team can make archi...
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The current battle field in the software industry is among the provisioning and configuring of environments, specially cloud environments. To live the DevOps dream one of the skills a team must have is the capability to be fast and flexible in the provisioning, configuring and usages of environmen...
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Two important aspects must be given to teams who work from and on Azure. Insight and Self Servicing. Insight. Insight in usages of Azure resources (and money) in relation to the team activities. When you are in the automation business, you are lazy by default. Team members will forget to switch of...
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Live streamed on 16 Oct.. 2014 Welcome to the Live stream of our DevOps technical meeting! Program is as follows: 18.00-18.45u Introduction & Enterprise DevOps (Dave van Herpen, Sogeti NL) 18.45-19.30u Cloud Team, OneShare (Clemens Reijnen, Patriek van Dorp, Sogeti NL) 19.45-20.30u...
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When adopting the Cloud for your test work it comes with several challenges. Looking at the different usages flavors of the cloud for teams, read: Cloud usage flavors for Development and Test teams, then every flavors has its own challenges. Challenge 1: Team Workspace in the Cloud – Test Environme...
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The cloud for teams have many forms. Teams can simply use a virtual machine on Azure to work from, the team member workspace flavor as I call it. Or, they can use the bug tracking database, requirements management, and scrum board from the Cloud. In either a SaaS way, like Visual Studio Online ...
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With the just released Visual Studio Online Rest APIs you can do some wonderful things. For example: We create a solution to support project teams who use Azure for their development and test activities. Teams who use Visual Studio Online for their ALM infrastructure and Azure VMs for their Dev...
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The game has changed for testers, they need to extend their basic testing skills when they want to stay valuable. As other team members, testers need to be a full member of the team with the current skill set this isn’t. While supporting teams for a long time in delivering software I noticed I’m al...
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