In this episode Greg and Josh continue our new year tradition, kicking off the year (and decade) with the one and only Donovan Brown. We chat about DevXXXOps, the past year in DevOps, the coming year, the TLA for Azure DevOps, stumbling blocks in adopting DevOps and much more...

Donovan Brown

Donovan Brown is the Principal Cloud Advocate Manager of the Methods and Practices Organization. Methods and Practices, focuses on IT-Pro, Modern Ops, DevOps and Enterprise Platform and Tools on Azure.

Before joining Microsoft, Donovan spent seven years as a Process Consultant and a Certified Scrum Master. Donovan has traveled the globe helping companies develop solutions using agile practices in many industries.

Donovan is an avid programmer, often finding ways to integrate software into his other hobbies and activities.

• https://www.donovanbrown.com  
• Follow @DonovanBrown

Links from the show:

• Migrating to Azure: Transforming Legacy Applications into Scalable Cloud-First Solutions [Josh Garverick]
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/
• http://loecda.com/, http://loecda.com/Talks, https://twitter.com/hashtag/LoECDA?src=hashtag_click
• http://aka.ms/azuredevopsevents
• VSTeam PS Module, https://github.com/DarqueWarrior/vsteam
• Release deployment control using gates
• Use approvals and gates to control your deployment
• Release approvals and gates overview
• Controlling Deployments using Release Gates
• Ry's Git Tutorial (The Git ebook Donovan mentioned)

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