NDC2013 - Continuously Deploying Complex Apps Doesn't Have to Suck!

One of the main tenets of Agile development is to deliver business value to the production environment early and often. That's easy enough if you are delivering one small web app, but what if your application is composed of several web apps across multiple tiers with a large database and maybe even a few Windows services and scheduled tasks? Now you need a deployment system that is built to scale and allows you to automate all of these tasks to achieve consistency in your deployments. In this talk I will show you how to deploy a complex application to multiple environments with just the click of a button using TeamCity and Octopus Deploy.

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1. DOING IT RIGHT Continuous Delivery Doesn’t Have To Suck Jeff French VP Product Development & Engineering ShoppinPal
2. •What is Continuous Delivery? •Why is it important? •What’s the wrong way to do it? •What’s the right way to do it?
3. Delivering working, tested software to your customers as frequently as practical.
4. “Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software” “Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference to the shorter timescale” http://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html
6. COMPLEXITY •Front-End •Catalog App •Shopping Cart App •Service Layer •API •Service Bus •Database •Scheduled Tasks •Mailer •zOMG •Bullet Points •WTF?
7. THE MANUAL WAY •Not consistent •Not repeatable •Not Traceable
8. THE BATCH FILE WAY •Kinda Consistent •Sorta Repeatable •Traceable?
9. THE OCTOPUS WAY •Build Once - Deploy Everywhere •Repeatable •Automated •Approval Process
10. DEMO
11. WHAT CAN OCTOPUS DEPLOY? •Websites (IIS) •Windows Services •Azure Web Sites •Azure Cloud Services •Anything...No Really...Anything!
12. DEPLOYMENT SCRIPTS •PreDeploy.ps1 •Deploy.ps1 •PostDeploy.ps1 •DeployFailed.ps1
13. DEMO TIME! I’d like to see more slides and less code. -No One Ever
14. VARIABLES AND TRANSFORMS •Config Transforms •*.Release.config •*.<Environment>.config •MySuperAwesome.config •Variables •Connection Strings •AppSettings •Accessible From •PowerShell Scripts •MSBuild files •Environment Variables
15. DEMO TIME! Show me teh codez!
16. OCTOPACK •Install-Package OctoPack •$RunOctoPack = True •Build Configuration = Release
17. LINKY-LINKS FOR CLICKY-CLICKS •octopusdeploy.com •jetbrains.com/teamcity •github.com/octopusdeploy
18. SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION •@jeff_french •geekindulgence.com •github.com/jeff-french •lanyrd.com/profile/jeff_french