I just gave a talk at the DevOpsDays Nashville 2017 conference titled “Painful to Painless: Moving 100+ developers and 60+ apps to Continuous Delivery”. Which I thought was a good title at the time of my original proposal but as I got closer to the conference I identified the need for my presentation to be …
Over the last year, I’ve primarily used Hyper-V as my driver for Kitchen in developing Chef cookbooks for Windows. I’m now starting to branch out to build some cookbooks for Linux and really don’t want to build my own Hyper-V images. So Vagrant is the obvious choice but I still use Hyper-V and don’t want …
Provisioning in Kitchen with Vagrant and the Hyper-V Provider Read More »
Most people assume they need to install WebDeploy and the Agent Service on all their application servers to use WebDeploy but that is not always the case. File Deployments First, not all deployments require the Agent Service. For example, the dirPath provider can deploy files to a remote server without using the agent. It simply …
WebDeploy Quick Tip: Deploy without installing the Agent Service Read More »
I’ve mentioned in many previous posts that we utilize Thoughtworks GO! to orchestrate our CD pipelines. We implemented GO! about three years ago. At the time we were experimenting with CD improvements and ThoughtWorks had recently open sourced GO! so it was the low-cost/risk option. Three years later we have 50+ pipelines and are deploying …
Its been a few months now since I was on the DotNetRocks podcast speaking about “Making MSDeploy Work”. I mentioned there that we had considered open sourcing the Nuget packages we use to create MSDeploy packages for all our deployable components but only if it was something the community was interested in and would use. …
MSDeployAllTheThings Nuget packages are now Open Sourced! Read More »
There is a lot of buzz amonst the development community at large about Continuous Delivery. Everyone seems to think its a good idea but I’ve seen few execute implementation well. In this post, we will briefly review what CD is and then I’ll give my opinions on the best way to implement it (HINT: its …
As of this morning I have made my first VSTS task public in the VisualStudio VSTS Marketplace. I blogged about my experience developing the task last month. Check that post out for more details: VSTS Release: Custom Deploy Task to Deploy Virtual Applications to Azure This is just the beginning! I plan to add more …
MSDeployAllTheThings VSTS/TFS Extension is Public! Read More »
In this blog post we will deploy a console app using MSDeploy. We use a similiar approach at EBSCO to deploy Scheduled Tasks and Windows Services. Step 1: Extending MSBuild The setup for this follows the same pattern we used in the Deploying a Databased Project with MSDeploy to extend MSBuild by adding a targets …
I mentioned service versioning briefly in my Are you Release Ready? post two weeks ago as one of the ways you can avoid breaking existing customers of a web service. Many developers assume we have an elaborate and complex service versioning system. We do not. Its very simple, we add a new application under an …
Assume for a moment I could give you “DevOps in a Box” and you could start delivering via an orchestration release system in an automated, repeatable way today. Would you be ready for it? What would you have to change in your teams to use it effectively? I bet your teams would be only slightly …