DevOps is a culture that aims to harmonize people, processes, and technologies to enhance the ability of organizations to reliably release software faster and more frequently. Visual Studio Team Services is a cloud service that supports the DevOps process through features like Git source control, build management, release management, and testing. An effective continuous integration and continuous deployment pipeline uses automated builds to detect problems early and reliably releases software through environments like development, staging, and production.

1. DevOps
Build and Release Management
Ravneet Kaur Arora
Tech Lead
QUARKXPRESS Publishing R&D (India) Pvt. Ltd.

2. Agenda
• What is DevOps?
• Introduction to Visual Studio Team Services
• Effective Release Pipeline
• Configuring CI/CD
• Build and Release Management(VSTS)
• Artifactory Management
• Jenkins CI

3. What is DevOps?
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4. What is DevOps?
• Is it Automation
• Is it a Tool
• Is it a team

5. Problem in a Nutshell…
• Bottlenecks in Software Development
• Missed Deadlines
• Technology issues
• Code is not building. Issue with the Build Server
• Production Deployments
» Application crashes
» Login issues
» etc etc etc
Communication
Less of Understanding
Integration Issues

6. What is DevOps?
• It is a Culture- a mindset that your team or
organization can adopt which will make the
processes smoother

7. DevOps- Definition
• Harmonize People, Processes and Technologies
• Enhance the ability of an organization to bring
an optimal application delivery
Developer
Build
Engineer
QA
Team
End
Users

8. Fail quick, fail often, recover quickly

9. Visual Studio Team Services
• Cloud service for collaborating on code development
• Integrated set of features that are accessible through web
browser or IDE client
• Git repositories for source control
• Agile tools to support planning and tracking work
• Highly customizable dashboards
• VSTS instance
– Free of 5 users
– MSDN subscription

10. Visual Studio Team Services
Agile Tools Git
Package
Management
Release
Management
TFVC
Testing Reporting
Build
Management

11. Effective Release Pipeline
Continuous Integration(CI)
• Is a development practice that requires developers to
integrate code into a shared repository several times a
day. Each check-in is then verified by an automated
build, allowing teams to detect problems early
Developer 1
Developer 2
Git /TFVC
repo
VSBuild Agent1
VSBuild Agent2

12. Effective Release Pipeline
Continuous Deployment(CD)
• Is a software engineering approach in which teams produce
software in short cycles, ensuring that software can be
reliably released at any time. It aims at building, testing
and releasing software faster and more frequently

13. Configuring CI (VSTS)

14. Build Management
• Version Control System
– TFVC
– Git
• Build Agents, Agent Pools, Agent Queues
• Build Definition- Collection of tasks

15. Agent Pools and Agent Queues

17. Build Definition

18. Build Definition

19. Build Definition

20. Build Definition

21. Build Definition

22. Configuring CD (VSTS)

23. Release Management
• End to end release process for an application to
be deployed across various environments
• To author release definition; specify the
artifacts
• Can restrict the deployments using approvals

24. Release Management

25. Release Management

26. Release Management

27. Release Management

28. Release Management

29. Release Management

30. Demo CI/CD

31. Artifactory Management
• Built-in Package Management repository
– NuGet
– NPM
– Maven
– Gradle

32. Jenkins
• Open source CI tool
• Integrate DevOps stages with the help of
plugins
• Every change made in source code is built
• Can be installed through Native System package,
Docker or even Standalone on a machine with JRE

33. Jenkins Architecture
Developer 1
Developer 2
Git /TFVC
repo
Jenkins
Server Staging
Environment
Dev
Environment
Production
Environment

34. Jenkins Master Slave Architecture
• Jenkins Master
– Schedule build jobs
– can execute jobs directly
– Dispatches builds to slaves for actual execution
• Jenkins Slave
– Java executable
– Listens requests from the Master instance

35. Another BIG thank you to local sponsors!

36. A BIG thank you to the 2018 Global Sponsors!

37. THANK YOU
HAPPY LEARNING!
HAPPY WORKING!