Étienne Tremblay: Setting up for DevOps properly - Episode 303
06/24/24 • 51 min
As the president of Tegaaa Solutions, a DevOps consulting firm, Étienne helps clients achieve optimal performance and efficiency in their software development processes. With over 30 years of IT experience and 20 years of Microsoft specialization, he has the skills and knowledge to provide tailored solutions for any DevOps challenge.
He is passionate about sharing his expertise and best practices with the IT community as a Microsoft MVP for TFS and Azure DevOps since 2006, and a regular speaker at local technical conferences and user groups since 2005. He also offers mentoring and training for organizations using Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server and designs enterprise and application architectures for projects of all sizes. His mission is to empower developers and organizations to leverage the power of DevOps and Azure to deliver high-quality software faster and better.
Topics of Discussion:
[3:30] Étienne’s career progression from mechanical engineering to software development.
[6:14] Yes, Étienne was TFS before it was cool.
[7:14] Étienne’s interesting specialization in aerodynamics.
[11:18] Not making things too complicated.
[12:49] Étienne’s interest in the building process.
[14:07] Building the blueprint.
[17:08] GitHub vs. Azure DevOps for enterprise use.
[19:49] Microsoft's struggle with GitHub's repo-centric approach in the enterprise.
[24:17] The key differences in how work is tracked.
[28:10 What is Entra ID?
[34:08] Agility is becoming a religion, where it needs to be more of a spirit.
[38:04] Kanban system for managing work in progress.
[46:24] Implementing Azure DevOps for beginners, with tips and resources.
Mentioned in this Episode:
Programming with Palermo — New Video Podcast! Email us at [email protected].
Clear Measure, Inc. (Sponsor)
.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer’s Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!
Jeffrey Palermo’s Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events!
Want to Learn More?
Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
As the president of Tegaaa Solutions, a DevOps consulting firm, Étienne helps clients achieve optimal performance and efficiency in their software development processes. With over 30 years of IT experience and 20 years of Microsoft specialization, he has the skills and knowledge to provide tailored solutions for any DevOps challenge.
He is passionate about sharing his expertise and best practices with the IT community as a Microsoft MVP for TFS and Azure DevOps since 2006, and a regular speaker at local technical conferences and user groups since 2005. He also offers mentoring and training for organizations using Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server and designs enterprise and application architectures for projects of all sizes. His mission is to empower developers and organizations to leverage the power of DevOps and Azure to deliver high-quality software faster and better.
Topics of Discussion:
[3:30] Étienne’s career progression from mechanical engineering to software development.
[6:14] Yes, Étienne was TFS before it was cool.
[7:14] Étienne’s interesting specialization in aerodynamics.
[11:18] Not making things too complicated.
[12:49] Étienne’s interest in the building process.
[14:07] Building the blueprint.
[17:08] GitHub vs. Azure DevOps for enterprise use.
[19:49] Microsoft's struggle with GitHub's repo-centric approach in the enterprise.
[24:17] The key differences in how work is tracked.
[28:10 What is Entra ID?
[34:08] Agility is becoming a religion, where it needs to be more of a spirit.
[38:04] Kanban system for managing work in progress.
[46:24] Implementing Azure DevOps for beginners, with tips and resources.
Mentioned in this Episode:
Programming with Palermo — New Video Podcast! Email us at [email protected].
Clear Measure, Inc. (Sponsor)
.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer’s Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!
Jeffrey Palermo’s Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events!
Want to Learn More?
Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
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Martin Hinshelwood: Migration Azure DevOps Server to the Cloud - Episode 302
Martin is a passionate agile leader with a track record of inspiring, encouraging, and igniting momentum. Featured speaker, author, and industry thought leader, Martin has a strong track record of helping organizations build a vision and execute evolutionary and revolutionary change. His deep technical knowledge, business insight, and experience drive impactful change for organizations.
Technologist turned agilist, Martin successfully helps organizations decentralize, democratize, and evolve their way of work to build extraordinary processes and drive organizational change through culture, technology, and teamwork. He’s been recognized by Microsoft as a Microsoft MVP, and he is the maintainer of the open-source Azure DevOps Migration Tools.
Topics of Discussion:
[2:59] Martin’s career journey.
[4:51] What Martin has learned as an MVP for 15 years.
[5:59] If you’re not good at something, do it more.
[6:52] Azure DevOps Migration tools.
[10:11] Martin adopted platform engineering to streamline processes and reduce costs.
[14:31] What you should know before using Martin’s tools.
[21:55] It’s not either/or between Microsoft migration tools and Azure DevOps migration tools.
[27:00] What made TFS unique.
[20:03] TFGit.
[30:02] The process used in your source and target, and what challenges might people expect?
[31:44] Limitations of migrating data from old TFS to new Azure DevOps using Microsoft tools.
Mentioned in this Episode:
Programming with Palermo — New Video Podcast! Email us at [email protected].
Clear Measure, Inc. (Sponsor)
.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer’s Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!
Jeffrey Palermo’s Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events!
Migration Tools for Azure DevOps
Want to Learn More?
Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
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Mitch Denny: .NET Aspire Architecture - Episode 304
Mitch is a Principal Software Engineer on the .NET Cloud team working on .NET Aspire and ASP.NET Core. Previously Mitch has worked on Azure services, the Azure SDK, and Azure DevOps.
Topics of Discussion:
[2:46] Mitch’s career journey in the Microsoft ecosystem.
[5:46] What makes it .NET Aspire vs. .NET8?
[6:16] .NET Aspire focuses on seamless integration between app components.
[8:18] Making sure the core of Aspire is cloud-agnostic.
[10:48] Developer control plane.
[11:40] How Aspire simplifies cross processes.
[14:36] Using Aspire to manage dependencies in microservices applications.
[18:18] Automating deployments with Azure DevOps and easy mode for .NET Aspire.
[30:27] Securing container deployments.
[34:39] Using Azure DevOps for cloud deployment and configuration management.
[37:33] What are the best resources for people to dig in?
[40:03] Azure subscriptions inside Microsoft.
[43:43] They are only just getting started with Aspire, and with .NET 9 coming out in November.
Mentioned in this Episode:
Programming with Palermo — New Video Podcast! Email us at [email protected].
Clear Measure, Inc. (Sponsor)
.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer’s Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!
Jeffrey Palermo’s Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events!
.NET Aspire (aspire)
github.com/dotnet/aspire/tree/main/playground
Want to Learn More?
Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
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