A short story about the deployment process of our technology squad at namics. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any further questions.

1. .Net Squad. Workflow.
Quality. Namics.
Daniel Scherrer. Software Architect.
October 2015

2. Just a normal day as a .Net engineer.
It’s Wednesday aka deployment day

3. Uff.. What I
need to do?
Let’s repeat…

4. Uff.. What I
need to do?
Let’s repeat…
Check the
stableness of
my source the
last time locally

5. Uff.. What I
need to do?
Let’s repeat…
Check the
stableness of
my source the
last time locally
Push all tested
commits to the
source control
system

6. Uff.. What I
need to do?
Let’s repeat…
Check the
stableness of
my source the
last time locally
Push all tested
commits to the
source control
system
Let’s build the
solution finally!
This is the
hardest time for
all dev’s ;-)

7. Uff.. What I
need to do?
Let’s repeat…
Check the
stableness of
my source the
last time locally
Push all tested
commits to the
source control
system
Let’s build the
solution finally!
This is the
hardest time for
all dev’s ;-)
Check the source
compliance and passing
through all quality gates

8. Uff.. What I
need to do?
Let’s repeat…
Check the
stableness of
my source the
last time locally
Push all tested
commits to the
source control
system
Let’s build the
solution finally!
This is the
hardest time for
all dev’s ;-)
Push the release build
with a version stamp to
the deployment server
Check the source
compliance and passing
through all quality gates

9. Yeah!
That’s a piece
of cake!

11. The code looks great!

12. …All null checks are
implemented…
…comments are there…
….very clean code…
The code looks great!

13. …All null checks are
implemented…
…comments are there…
….very clean code…
The code looks great!
ok. I’m finished !

15. …talk with the Lead Tech
about my code quality and
create a merge request to
master branch…

16. …talk with the Lead Tech
about my code quality and
create a merge request to
master branch…
… spend some minutes
each week to view stats
about my project or other
commits of teammates

18. Yeah! Merge request
accepted! Thx Tech Lead!
;-)
Now, I can build and
deploy…

19. Yeah! Merge request
accepted! Thx Tech Lead!
;-)
Now, I can build and
deploy…
Push the button «Run»
and look few minutes to the
screen… Or, hmmm… No, I will
go to grab a coffee and talk
about soccer with my project
manager!

21. So, back to my laptop…
Cool, the build finished and
the automatic deploy to
DEV is already done and
succeeded, too!

22. So, back to my laptop…
Cool, the build finished and
the automatic deploy to
DEV is already done and
succeeded, too!
Now, lets deploy to the
staging environment and
send a message to all
testers…

23. So, back to my laptop…
Cool, the build finished and
the automatic deploy to
DEV is already done and
succeeded, too!
Now, lets deploy to the
staging environment and
send a message to all
testers…
oops. I forgot the code
quality check!

25. Let’s take a look on the
sonar page…

26. Let’s take a look on the
sonar page…
… none blocker issues!
… all quality gates are
passed!
… lucky punch!

27. No bugs found?
Really? Hmm..
Ok let’s deploy to
productive…

28. Ok, now, I’m getting
nervous…

34. I love automatic deployments!
DB Backups, Load Balancer configs,
update servers, back to Load
Balancer, all with one click!

35. Connection timed out?
Ok, I must contact the Hoster-
SysAdmin. Shit happens..
This is only one of many
delivery servers…
Longer than usual?
4 minutes running time?
Ok, we must maintain this
machine this week.
I create an Issue for this…

36. Now, we are beginning to realise that we are
LIVE…

38. Any questions?
daniel.scherrer@namics.com
@daniiiol