Release Management with Team Services

Learn the fundamentals of Release Management, how it relates to DevOps, and benefits it and continuous deployment bring to any organization. More specifically, I will present an overview of Release Management. I will also cover what Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Services are. We will look at the new Cross-Platform build system, discuss DevOps practices, and benefits of Release Management. Walk away with the knowledge you need to get started with Release Management Team Services.

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1. Release Management and Team Services Paul Hacker Solution Architect, Microsoft ALM MVP
2. www.agilethought.com 2 Twitter - @pjhacker Blog – http://paulhacker.net Email - paul.hacker@agilethought.com Contact info
3. Agenda www.agilethought.com 3 • TFS & VSTS Context • DevOps Practices • Release Management Overview What is it? Business Value Comparison
4. Visual Studio Team Services http://www.visualstudio.com/news/release-archive-vso
5. www.agilethought.com 5 300 level Product w/ Practice 200 level Practices 100 level Overview Azure Deployment Template with Azure Website + SQL DB Chef Recipe with Linux VM on Azure VSTS (git) + Jenkins (build) Github + VSTS Gradle (build People, Process, Biz Value, etc. Infrastructure as Code Continuous Integration
6. DevOps Practices • Integrated Deployment Planning • Continuous Deployment • Production Support • Application Monitoring • Automated Dashboards www.agilethought.com 6 • Active Stakeholder Participation • Automated Testing • Integrated Configuration Management • Integrated Change Management • Continuous Integration
7. Native Cross Platform www.agilethought.com 7
8. Release Management www.agilethought.com 8
9. Release Management Benefits www.agilethought.com 9 DEV QA INT PROD VSTS or TFS Deployment + Task Automation Pipeline
10. DEV QA INT PROD VSTS or TFS Automate the approval workflow Release Management Benefits
11. DEV QA INT PROD VSTS or TFS Deploy the same way to all stages Release Management Benefits
12. DEV QA INT PROD VSTS or TFS Full Traceability Release Management Benefits
13. Release Management Benefits Manage the full stack
14. Release Management Product Comparison Previous Current Manual Intervention Yes Coming Authoring WPF Client Web DSL Windows Workflow Task Based Cross-Platform Native No Yes Rollback Yes Coming Definition version controlled No Yes Log Accessibility Difficult Easy and Realtime
15. www.agilethought.com 15 Hybrid Release Management
16. Artifact Connections www.agilethought.com 16 1 2 3 4
17. Traceability www.agilethought.com 17
18. DEMO 18 www.agilethought.com
19. www.agilethought.com 19 Thank You Q&A Paul Hacker is a Solutions Architect and ALM Consultant at AgileThought, Microsoft ALM MVP. He has over 15 years of professional experience in software development, working in all phases of distributed object oriented enterprise application development and design using Microsoft technologies. @pjhacker http://paulhacker.net paul.hacker@agilethought.com Paul Hacker