Are you looking for an efficient way to dev/test your applications in Windows Azure and you want to track your release process by automating your deployments for repeatable success? Are you struggling with a manual and error-prone deployment process which frustrates you every day? Are you looking for automation that is the same across different environments (Dev-Test-Acceptance-Production)? Do you need to build/package your application only once and deploy it with the exact same bits to any provisioned environment? Do you want to setup a formal approval workflow to promote a release to the next stage? If so, come and learn about the new release management features in Visual Studio Team Services.

1. DevOps with Visual Studio Release Management
Pieter Gheysens – Visual Studio ALM MVP Sparkles

2. Release Management
DevOps solution for delivering your software easily and more frequently

3. Agenda

4. Key for success …

5. Industry Trends in Development Practices

6. Continuous (Value) Delivery

7. Continuous (Value) Delivery
Complex
Error-prone
Chaotic

8. A little bit of history …
Team
System
2005/2008
Visual Studio
2010
Visual Studio
2012
Visual Studio
2013
Visual Studio
2015

10. Release Management??
Release management is the process of managing software releases
from development stage to production.
Testing Time
DEV ACCTEST PRODCode
Coordination
Provision
Deploy

11. Provisionig
&
Deployment
Automation

12. Approval
Workflows

13. Environment
Management

14. Full
Traceability

15. Security
Management

16. Release Management
Security
Management
Full
Traceability
Environment
Management
Approval
Workflows
Provisioning
&
Deployment
Automation

17. Visual Studio Release Management [Agents]
TFS Drop Location
RM DesktopRM Web
QA
DEV
RM Server

18. Agentless Deployments + DSC support
TFS Drop Location
RM DesktopRM Web
QA
DEV
RM Server

19. What is DSC?
Assumed
State
Start with an
Assumption of target
Environment
Run a series of actions
Desired
State
End with desired state
(hopefully)

20. What is DSC?
Desired
State
Send a description
of the desired state
Get.Test.Set
“Make it so”
DSC Resources
TFS
Config/Infrastructure as Code
Shared
Gallery

21. Example of a DSC Script

22. How does it work in VSTS (RM vNext)?

23. Example of a Release Cycle

24. Demo

25. Demo Takeaways

26. Benefits of Release Management

27. Key for success
Tools
People
Process

28. Contact

29. VISUG Partners