Update: Both of the features are now available in all the regions where DevTest Labs is available! Below is the original post: Today, at Connect(); 2016, we are very excited to announce that two more new features are available in Azure DevTest Labs: the capability to create your environments using Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates,…
Automate Adding an Artifact Repository in Azure DevTest Labs
Acknowledgement: This post is contributed by Elizabeth Maher, Senior Software Engineer in Customer Success Team. She’s been working on a solution to help our customers to adopt Azure DevTest Labs. DevTest Labs allow users to add a tool to a newly created or previously created VM in lab via artifacts. Artifacts are defined in a JSON…
Tips and tricks on Azure DevTest Labs artifacts development and debugging
Acknowledgement: This post is contributed by Roger Best, Senior Software Engineer in Customer Success Team. He’s been working on a solution to help our customers to adopt Azure DevTest Labs. I’m recently working with some customers getting their DevTest labs up and running. During that, I spent some time developing and debugging artifacts, and figured out…
Set expiration date for VMs in Azure DevTest Labs
In scenarios such as training, demos and trials, you may want to create virtual machines and delete them automatically after a fixed duration so that you don’t incur unnecessary costs. We recently announced a feature which allows you to do just that – set an expiration date for a lab VM. This feature is currently only…
Introduction: Get VMs ready in minutes by setting up an image factory in Azure DevTest Labs
Acknowledgement: This series of posts is contributed by Peter Hauge, Senior Software Engineer in Customer Success Team. He’s been driving a solution to help our customers to adopt Azure DevTest Labs. We were recently working with a large enterprise customer planning on using Azure to host their developer desktops. This customer had a challenging set of…
Set up DevTest Labs to send auto-shutdown notification
One of popular features in Azure DevTest Labs is to automatically shut down all the lab VMs at a specified time every day. We’ve heard a lot of positive feedback from our customers how they like the simplicity to set up auto-shutdown for the VMs in their labs so that they can easily mitigate the cost waste…
Azure DevTest Labs now available in Canada, India and new US regions
Azure DevTest Labs is now available in the following new regions of Canada, India and US that support the required Azure resources used in the Labs: Canada Central Canada East US West 2 US West Central India Central India South Customers now have the option to create a DevTest lab in any of these locations in addition…
Two more things to keep your cost on track in DevTest Labs
Few months back, we blogged about our first cost management feature: monthly cost trend. It allows you to see how much you have spent in the current calendar month and also shows the projection of the spending till the month end, based on your spending in last 7 days. Since then, we moved to the…
General availability of Azure DevTest Labs – VSTS extension
A couple of weeks ago, we announced the general availability of Azure DevTest Labs: your self-service sandbox environment in Azure to quickly create Dev/Test environments while minimizing waste and controlling costs. As part of the announcement we introduced the preview of Azure DevTest Labs – VSTS extension. Today, we are delighted to announce the general…
Announcing General Availability of Azure DevTest Labs
Today, we are very excited to announce the general availability of Azure DevTest Labs: your self-service sandbox environment in Azure to quickly create Dev/Test environments while minimizing waste and controlling costs. We’ve been hearing from a lot of customers about all kinds of challenges they’ve been facing in their Dev/Test environments. With the power of…