1. DevOps for the IT Pro with Azure and Visual Studio Team Services
Christopher Mank
Chief Technologist
White Ficus
Nathan Lasnoski
Chief Technology Officer
Concurrency

2. Christopher Mank Nathan Lasnoski @cmank7 @nlasnoski Microsoft MVP
12+ Years IT
20+ Years IT
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3. What is devops?

4. The industry is moving toward DevOps
PEOPLE
Collaborate more
Share common goals
Focus on improvement
BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER
The industry is moving toward DevOps
PROCESS
Eliminate waste
Increase efficiency
Streamline feedback
DELIVERING VALUE FASTER
TOOLS
Enhance productivity
Enable collaboration
Facilitate experimentation
EXECUTING A DEVOPS STRATEGY

5. What is DevOps? “It’s a job title” “It’s automation”
“It’s Development and Operations collaboration”
“It means faster and smaller releases”

6. DevOps habits and practices
Application Performance Management
Infrastructure as Code
Continuous Deployment
Release Management
Configuration Management
Automated Recovery
PRACTICES
Automated Testing
Continuous Integration
Continuous Deployment
Release Management
PRACTICES
Usage Monitoring
Telemetry Collection Testing in Production
Stakeholder Feedback
PRACTICES
Code Reviews
Automated Testing
Continuous Measurement
TEAM AUTONOMY & ENTERPRISE ALIGNMENT
BACKLOG refined with LEARNING
EVIDENCE gathered in PRODUCTION
FLOW OF CUSTOMER VALUE
MANAGED TECHNICAL DEBT
PRODUCTION FIRST MINDSET
INFRASTRUCTURE is a FLEXIBLE RESOURCE
PRACTICES
Application Performance Management
Infrastructure as Code
Continuous Delivery
Release Management
Configuration Management
Automated Recovery
PRACTICES
Testing in Production
Usage Monitoring
User Telemetry
Stakeholder feedback
Feature flags
PRACTICES
Enterprise Agile
Continuous Integration
Continuous Deployment
Release Management

7. Microsoft’s ALM framework
Plan
Operate + learn
Requirements
Collaboration
Development
Production
Develop + test
Release

8. What is Visual Studio Team Services?
Microsoft’s platform for development management
Work management
Agile backlog based work management
Code repository
Works with GIT or its own repository
Release management
Automate release of what you build into production
Capture bugs and learn
Receive errors from production and enter into backlog to prioritize

9. Who should use VSTS? Automation admins SCCM admins SCOM / OMS admins
Manage your work-stream and release to production
Automation admins
PowerShell scripts, runbooks, DSC configurations, ARM configurations
SCCM admins
Task sequences, packages, scripts
SCOM / OMS admins
Management packs, scripts
SCSM admins
Management packs
Developers
Any type of code (IoT, Azure PaaS, Java, open source, etc.)

10. Alm vs. sdlc vs. devops Lot’s of terms and acronyms in the industry
Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
Requirements / Analysis / Design
Waterfall
DevOps
Development / Testing / Release / Maintenance
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
Birth to death of product
Portfolio Mgmt / Service Desk

11. Alm vs. sdlc vs. devops
which-witch-is-which/

12. devops

13. Plan
Option 1: You don’t...

14. Plan
Option 2: You stick with a waterfall PM process

15. plan
Option 3: You start using VSTS...

16. Plan

17. code
Code is code!
PowerShell
ARM
DSC
Use source control!

18. build Continuous Integration (CI)
Automated builds and tests whenever new code is committed into source control
Immediate feedback

19. Code & Build

20. test Track test plans in VSTS Types of testing Plans Suites Cases
Manual
Automated
Continuous
Exploratory

21. Test

22. release Continuous Deployment (CD)
Automated deployment process whenever a new successful build is available
Build once, deploy anywhere

23. Release

24. Monitor Ensure the application is running as it should
Enable tools and automation
OMS
Application Insights
Rapid feedback

25. Monitor

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