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Use Dev Box Team Customizations and Imaging to streamline your team’s development workflow

August 13, 2024 Aug 13, 2024 08/13/24

Dhruv

TLDR: We are excited to introduce team-based customization of Dev Boxes with built in imaging capabilities, using the familiar Dev Box customization format, to help you create and optimize ready-to-code Dev Box configurations for your entire team. Sign up for the private preview here.   Earlier this year, we announced the public ...

Microsoft Dev Box Customization Now Supports Native Run-as-user

August 8, 2024 Aug 8, 2024 08/8/24

Jiayan Chen

Dev Box customization now supports native run as user in the customization yaml files. The native run-as-user capability is more powerful in terms of reliability, status tracking and error reporting. You can also see the execution progress on run-as-user customization tasks from Dev Portal. If you are using Dev Box customization, this feature ...

Introducing private registry support in Azure Deployment Environments

August 6, 2024 Aug 6, 2024 08/6/24

Sagar Chandra Reddy Lankala

As the cloud landscape continues to evolve, there is growing need for secure, customizable tools for provisioning application infrastructure to meet unique organizational requirements. Azure Deployment Environments, a flexible and powerful solution that empowers developers to easily deploy app infrastructure in a secure, compliant, and cost-...

Microsoft Dev Box is leveling up to support your development needs

May 21, 2024 May 21, 2024 05/21/24

Anthony Cangialosi

It’s hard to believe Microsoft Dev Box has already been generally available for almost a year. Since its inception, we’ve seen Dev Box as a fundamental shift in the way we think about developer workstations—moving from static, physical dev machines to ready-to-code, cloud-based workstations. The response to Dev Box—and the feedback we...

Boost dev team agility with customized, project-specific templates in Azure Deployment Environments

May 21, 2024 May 21, 2024 05/21/24

Sagar Chandra Reddy Lankala

Have you heard the latest news about Azure Deployment Environments? Last month, we released an extensibility model that’s set to transform how platform engineers tailor deployments to their organization’s unique needs. This new model empowers you to customize deployments using any infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) framework you prefer—whether...