Alex Turner will give a presentation on using Microsoft Azure to increase delivery speeds. The 60 minute agenda includes a 10 minute introduction, 40 minute demonstration, and 10 minute Q&A session. The presentation will cover DevOps, continuous delivery, automation techniques like environment swaps, and demonstrate releasing a Windows 8 application from Visual Studio Online to an Azure virtual machine. Attendees are invited to ask questions at the end.

1. Alex Turner
Senior Azure Consultant
InCycle Software
Increase Delivery Speed
using Microsoft Azure

2. Presentation 10 min.
Demonstration 40 min.
Q&A 10 min.
Agenda

3. DevOps
Some context before we start

4. Continuous Improvement
1
2
3

5. Plan Develop OperateRelease
DevOps Cycle

6. Continuous Delivery
Plan REQUIREMENTS
BACKLOG
RELEASE
OperateConstruct
WORKING SOFTWARE
Operate
Agile portfolio management Visual Studio and
System Center
integration
Build | Measure | Learn
Collaborate
Kanban customization
Work item tagging
Performance events
Develop
Team Room
Git
Code Information Indicators
.NET memory Dump Analyzer
Load Testing as a Service
Integrated release
management
Release
Configuration-
based deployments

7. Strategy
Increase Delivery Speeds

8. Typical Release Cycle

9. Using Continuous Delivery
Demo Release Cycle

10. Continuous Delivery
Automation not Magic

11. Environment Swaps
Not doing a copy / overwrite

12. Environment Swaps
We can swap back, nothing is lost!

13. Tooling & Automation
1
2
3

14. Steps
1
2
4
3

15. Release Cycle Note

16. Release Cycle Note

17. Demo
Windows 8 in an Azure Virtual Machine
Visual Studio Online account to Azure PaaS

18. Merci
Questions?

19. Azure Service Offers
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