Managed DevOps Pools with Eliza Tarasila

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How do you manage your CI/CD pipeline resources? Richard chats with Eliza Tarasila about Managed DevOps Pools in Azure DevOps. Eliza tells the story of discovering that teams were using Azure DevOps internally at Microsoft but would need to build their tooling to stand up the resources for testing and deployment. Managed DevOps Pools became the standard way to specify resources like virtual machines and assign them to projects so that they would start up automatically. The resources in the pool can be custom resources in Azure or even on-premises servers! And, more importantly, you don't need to care and feed for the infrastructure used in the pipelines, Azure DevOps will do it for you.

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Recorded January 6, 2025

Eliza Tarasila is a Principal Software Engineer managing a team responsible for providing the compute infrastructure for running CI/CD workloads inside Microsoft. Her portfolio of services spins up and down millions of resources per day, across several compute fabrics (including virtual machines, containers, and custom hardware). Her focus is on providing maximum flexibility, while also ensuring reliability and performance.

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