Davide Benvegnù
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Release Management
with TFS 2013
ALM Deep dive with TFS 2013
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Session Lineup
About TFS Release Manager
Release Management installation
Release Management in action
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Event Sponsor
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About
TFS Release Manager
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What is it?
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From MSDN:
Release Management provides a continuous deployment
solution that makes release cycles repeatable, visible, and
more efficient by automating deployments through every
environment from Team Foundation Server (TFS) to
production.

About TFS RM
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 Formerly "InRelease"
 It’s a Standalone product
 Will be integrated in TFS during the coming releases
 It isn’t as complete as “we want” (as developers,
testers or deployers)

About TFS RM
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 Release Management Server
 Web service
 Windows Service
 Database
 …will be integrated in TFS
 Release Management Client
 Release Management console
 Release Explorer Web console
 …will be integrated in Visual Studio

About TFS RM
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 Release Management Deployer (Agent)
 To install on target servers
 Works in “Pull mode”
 Deployer Tools
 Installing / unistalling components
 Deploying reports to Reporting Services
 Moving / Copying files
 …

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Key Features
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 Easily define your release process
 Visually create promotion paths through your
environments
 Drag and drop to create workflows (copy files, create
IIS sites, install MSIs, maintain configurations, …)
 Use the same deployment for every environment,
including deploying to production

Key Features
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 Manage a consistent deployment pipeline:
 Schedule builds and trigger your entire release
management flow from within Visual Studio
 Time-schedule each promoted release at a time
that suits them, providing the versatility of
automation, while still maintaining control
 Visualize your release pipeline and model your
release process to know where you are at a glance

Release Management
Installation
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Installation steps
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Deployment Agent requirements
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Supported Operating Systems
 Window Vista (with latest SP and PowerShell 2.0)
 Windows 7 SP1 (x86 and x64)
 Windows 8 (x86 and x64)
 Windows 8.1 (x86 and x64)
 Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 (x64)
 Windows Server 2012 (x64)
 Windows Server 2012 R2 (x64)
 NO support if OS != Windows (at the moment)

DEMO
Release Management in action
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Recap
 Release management allows you to do continuous
deployment and continuous integration
 It extends the “normal” Build Server deploy
functionalities
 You can customize it to adapt it to your own
application lifecycles processes and models
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