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Beyond VDI: Get secure cloud dev environments with Microsoft Dev Box
Modern software development can drive innovation to new heights, but to get there, developers need tools that are built to handle today’s challenges and future ...
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What’s new in Azure DevTest Labs
DevTest labs now supports the capability to access Azure DevOps artifact repos through Managed Identities and GitHub artifact repos through GitHub app authentication. Additionally, you can now also access the lab storage account through Managed Identities. Until now users have accessed Artifact repos via personal access tokens (PATs) and storage accounts through Storage Access Shared (SAS) tokens. These tokens can be leaky, posing a security risk. The development teams also need to manage the PATs, increasing the overhead on the team. Moreover, these SAS tokens and PATs have an expiration time which causes fragil...
Introducing a new landing page and welcome tour for Microsoft developer portal!
At Microsoft, we are dedicated to shaping a developer experience that is efficient, user-friendly, and tailored to your needs. With the new landing page and welcome tour, we’re excited to empower you to work more effectively and unlock new levels of productivity. Together, we’re building a platform that evolves with you. At Microsoft, we’re focused on creating a developer experience that’s easy to use and meets your needs. Our new Dev Box landing page and welcome tour are designed to help you work efficiently and boost productivity. The updated landing page is a central hub that organizes key ...
Understanding the basics of Dev Box teams customizations
Streamline Your Development Workflow with Dev Box Customizations Are you looking to enhance your team's development environment? Look no further! With Microsoft Dev Box, you can now customize your development boxes to fit your team's specific needs. Let's dive into how you can leverage Dev Box customizations to streamline your workflow. What is Dev Box Customization? Dev Box customization allows development team leads to create ready-to-code configurations for their entire team. By defining tools, packages, and settings in a single configuration file, you can ensure that every team member has a consisten...
New features enhance developer experience, customizations, and security in Azure Deployment Environments
If you’ve been following our journey with Azure Deployment Environments (ADE), you’ll know we’ve been on a mission to make the service as seamless and simple as possible to help developers access the infrastructure they need. Earlier this year at Build, we were excited to announce continued improvements to the ADE extensibility model that enable platform engineers to customize deployment with any infrastructure-as-code (IaC) framework and customize the deployments to meet your organization’s specific needs. But we’re not stopping there—we’ve continued to innovate with ADE, and today, we’re excited to announce ...
Boost security and team agility through project-level guardrails with Dev Box project policies
As development teams embrace cloud-based tools to accelerate their workflows, managing resources securely and efficiently across different projects has become a top priority for IT pros and developers alike. Microsoft Dev Box is designed to streamline project-based development, providing developers with tailored cloud development environments optimized for productivity and collaboration. Today, we’re excited to announce a new feature, now available for preview for Microsoft Dev Box: project policies. Project policies bring a powerful new way for platform engineers to set guardrails around resources enabled on ...
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Setup Microsoft Dev Box quickly from our getting started page
The Dev Box team has been working hard to streamline the onboarding process for Dev Box administrators and platform engineers, especially for situations when you're unsure of all the necessary steps. In this blog, we are introducing a page in the Azure portal that will serve as a starting point for you to begin the Dev Box creation process. Introducing the Microsoft Dev Box pre-requisites page, designed to guide IT administrators and platform engineers through the essential steps needed to set up a Dev Box. This page provides the necessary guidance before diving into creating developer cloud machines for y...
Utilize Multiple Monitors for Microsoft Dev Box with the Windows App
Do you use cloud-based developer environments like Microsoft Dev Box? Do you use multiple monitors in your setup? Did you know there a new app in Windows that will give you a great experience with multiple monitors and Microsoft Dev Box? Take a look at this video showing configuring multiple monitor setup with the Windows App and logging into Microsoft Dev Box With the new Windows App, available from the Microsoft Store, you have the ability to detect and configure multiple monitors for your cloud-based developer environments? To learn more, read the official documentation on Learn!
Effectively building Linux apps with Microsoft Dev Box and WSL
The following blog walks through how you as a developer can build Linux applications in Windows Subsystem for Linux with Microsoft Dev Box. A brief summary of the end developer experience is shown in the following video. Developers cherish nothing more than the environments they use every day to build apps. These environments have to be configured just right, with the tools they need for day-to-day tasks, and even the details like the size of the point mouse. One thing is certain, when you don’t have enough flexibility and control over their environment, it impacts how effective they can be. This challenge...