At 10:15 AM they

managed to shut down

the entire system.

In 45 minutes Knight Capital

Group lost

dollars.

What would be the impact in

your organization?

Going DevOps on the Microsoft stack

Using Release Management with VSO and TFS

Wouter de Kort

• ALM Ranger

• Author

• Developer

• Elise

• Groningen

• Lezen

Lead DevOps Consultant

Agenda

• Basic recap

• Advanced features

• PowerShell DSC

• Future

Release Management

History

InRelease

Release Management

Visual Studio 2013 Update 3

vNext

DEV QA INT PROD TFS

Full Traceability

How does it work?

TFS Drop Location

RM Desktop RM Web

QA

DEV

RM Server

Components

DEMO A simple automated release

Choices and features

• Agent based fully supported through 2015

• Each have their Pros and Cons

Agent Based vs v.Next

Any action that can be performed from PowerShell or a CLI

can be done during your release

PowerShell/CLI

Tokenization

Multiple Copies

Transform Files

Tokens

• Shadow Accounts

• Two-way Trusts

• Co-located Agents

Cross-Domain / Workgroup Mode

• Release Management is highly secure

• Remove the Everyone group

• Supports

– Active Directory

– Team Foundation Server Groups

– Release Management Groups

• Supports Encryption

Security

• Some actions require human intervention

• Still recorded in deployment log

• Can trigger a rollback

Manual Intervention

• SSDT

• Care must be taken with Deployment Slots

• Have rollback strategy

Database Changes

• RM Client

• Command Line

• REST API

Triggering Releases

• Restore system after failed deployment

• Similar to Try, Catch, Finally

Rollbacks

PowerShell DSC

The Stage Stack

Manage the full stack

Without DSC

Assumed State

Start with an Assumption of target Environment

Run a series of actions

Desired State

End with desired state (hopefully)

With DSC

Desired State

Send a description of the desired state

DSC capability reaches the desired state

Get.Test.Set

“Make it so”

DSC Resources TFS

Config as Code Shared Gallery

Desired State Configuration

Configuration InstallWebSite {

Node $AllNodes.NodeName {

WindowsFeature InstallIIS {

Ensure = "Present"

Name = "Web-Server"

}

}

}

InstallWebSite –ConfigurationData .\config.ps1

config.ps1

$ConfigData = @{

AllNodes = @(

@{

NodeName = “localhost“

})

}

The future

Current issues

• Separate installation

• Desktop client

• Not cross platform

• Not fully integrated

• ‘Issues’

Release Management vNext

• Web based

• Cross platform

• Easily extensible

DEMO Release Management vNext

And there is more!

• Azure Resource Manager

• Docker

• Chef

• Release validation

• Functional testing

• Load Test

• Test analysis

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