From Jenkins to Azure DevOps pipelines

This presentation is about the key takeaways and things we already tried at Rombit regarding Azure DevOps.

Gie Spaepen: @spaepeng
Jo Somers: @josomers

1. 18 DECEMBER 2019 Azure Devops Pipelines Gie Spaepen / Jo Somers
4. WE’RE HIRING! rombit.be/jobs
5. Agenda 1. DevOps history 2. Jenkins Jungle 3. Targets 4. Azure DevOps 5. Demo time 6. Questions? 2 DECEMBER 2019
6. The small Rombit DevOps history 1 18 DECEMBER 2019
7. The small Rombit DevOps history ▪ Rombit was a PHP-centric company. ▪ CI = Wercker ▪ CD: also Wercker but also manually using Capistrano ▪ Various flavours depending on the project and developer. 18/12/2019 … in the beginning
8. ▪ Infrastructure standardization Digital Ocean and AWS EC2. ▪ CI + CD: enter Jenkins. ▪ Organic adoption of multibranch pipelines. ▪ Building a stockpile of technology 18/12/2019 … after some beginning The small Rombit DevOps history
9. ▪ Adaptation of new technologies like mobile apps (React Native), backend switched to JVM-based tech (mostly Spring Boot) ▪ Move to Kubernetes ▪ New infra made CI/CD more complex, e.g.: ◦ Various testing strategies ◦ Ansible ◦ Bash scripts … ▪ Jenkins updates & plugin management (being outdated as a daily routine) 18/12/2019 … and also The small Rombit DevOps history
10. The current Jungle 2 18 DECEMBER 2019
11. Current Jungle 18/12/2019 Jenkins Stack
12. Current Jungle ▪ No governance ▪ Passwords everywhere (Jenkins / Credstash) ▪ No oversight ▪ Limited user management ▪ Ansible Scripts: all logic possible ▪ Jenkins files: Groovy, logic mingled with scripts ▪ Release and pray strategy ▪ Split the CI from the CD (build & deploy) 18/12/2019 Difficult
13. Targets 3 18 DECEMBER 2019
14. Targets ▪ Fast & easy setup of new projects. ▪ Build an artifact and deploy anywhere anytime & move the artefact around… without rebuilding. 18/12/2019 Target #1
15. Targets ▪ Proper integration with test automation ▪ Get faster test feedback by deploying more often into production ▪ Possibility to activate other integrations 18/12/2019 Target #2
16. Targets ▪ Structured, UI driven, managed tool with proper: ◦ Access control ◦ Pipeline trigger management, also for non tech people ⚡ ◦ Proper governance and overview ‍✈ ◦ Easy versioned plugin management 18/12/2019 Target #3
17. Azure DevOps 4 18 DECEMBER 2019
18. Azure DevOps 18/12/2019 Azure DevOps stack
19. Azure DevOps ▪ Split CI from CD ▪ Managed service with a proper UI, drag and drop ▪ Password management ability via secrets & keys ▪ Task groups for repeating tasks ▪ Governance ▪ Working now well for: ◦ FE apps (React) ◦ BE apps (Spring Boot/Node JS) ◦ It has a MacOS agent! Yay! 18/12/2019 Lessons learned so far
20. Azure DevOps ▪ Pipeline template setups for default stack projects (also considering yaml files for templating…) ▪ Movement from Jenkins…. towards Azure DevOps by June 2020. 18/12/2019 Work in progress...
21. Azure DevOps ▪ Getting started: ◦ Strategy to split CI/CD for mobile apps with Azure DevOps and Fastlane ◦ Notification strategy via Slack ▪ Getting planned: ◦ Automated UI/integration test runs in CI ▪ To be validated: ◦ .yaml configuration via Code 18/12/2019 Not doing… yet.
22. Demo time! 5 18 DECEMBER 2019
23. Demo fallback image 18/12/2019
24. Demo fallback image 18/12/2019
25. Yaml Pipelines - VSCode-like editor online with task assistant 18/12/2019
26. Yaml Pipelines - Save to a new branch and create a PR 18/12/2019
27. Questions? 6 18 DECEMBER 2019