2. Dev and Test Environments in the Cloud
Leveraging Azure to increase Agility

3. Focus: Microsoft SW Development
Since: 2001
Focus: ALM + TFS + Azure
Clients: Corporate Software Dev Groups
Market: GTA
Size: 50 Software Professionals

4. Agenda Section 01 - Process Section 02 - Tools
Section 03 - Infrastructure
Section 04 - Real World Examples
Section 05 - Action Plan
Agenda

5. Advantages of the Agile methodology
Section 01
Process
Advantages of the Agile methodology

6. Where are you now?
The Agile Process for Software Delivery is designed to
provide a balance between Speed and Control
Traditional approaches can sacrifice speed for control…
… while others sacrifice control for speed
CONTROL
SPEED
CONTROL
SPEED
CONTROL
SPEED

7. The Cloud is changing fast…
Cloud and mobile are evolving rapidly
IT groups and developers must adapt faster than ever before
Traditional Waterfall methods aren’t optimized to react quickly
The Agile process can help you take advantage of cloud technology, saving your organization time and money

8. Advantages of the Agile Process
Work is divided into short “Sprints” that provide:
Continuous delivery of working software
Ongoing user engagement and collaboration in the Dev process
Ability to smoothly accept changing business priorities
“Specs” are written in easy-to-understand User Stories
(vs cryptic Functional Specifications)
Azure can help Agile projects get started much faster
We make this work within a traditional Waterfall approach: “Water-file”

9. Enabling Agile delivery
Section 02
Tools
Enabling Agile delivery

10. Tools Agile + Azure (VSO) = Software Development with Automation
Rapid Agile development requires software tools that help automate the process
Azure provides Visual Studio Online (VSO) aka Hosted Team Foundation Server (TFS) for:
User Stories, Features, Backlog management, and Kanban activity board
Source Control – Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) or Git
Automated Build and Deployment – 60 free minutes with MSDN
Automated Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing
Automated Load Testing – 15,000 minutes included with MSDN
Agile + Azure (VSO) = Software Development with Automation

11. Azure - Visual Studio Online
1. User Stories
6. New Insight & Business
Requirements
5. Deploy
2. Design
3. Build
4. Test

12. Section 03
Infrastructure
Inside the Azure cloud

13. Azure Cloud Infrastructure
Software
(as a Service)
Storage
Servers
Networking
O/S
Middleware
Virtualization
Applications
Runtime
Data
Azure
On Premises
You scale, make resilient and manage
Storage
Servers
Networking
O/S
Middleware
Virtualization
Data
Applications
Runtime
Azure Managed
Infrastructure
(as a Service)
Storage
Servers
Networking
O/S
Middleware
Virtualization
Data
Applications
Runtime
You scale & manage
Platform
(as a Service)
Azure Managed
You manage
Storage
Servers
Networking
O/S
Middleware
Virtualization
Applications
Runtime
Data

14. Stories from ObjectSharp experience
Section 04
Real World Examples
Stories from ObjectSharp experience

15. Three Real-Life Customer Examples
SMALL - a scalable production website
MID-SIZED - a solution with multiple environments
ENTERPRISE - an end-to-end environment with complex configuration

16. Scalable Website
Customer migrating from older Line Of Business (LOB) application
Solution required a single production website
Customer needed quick dev/test cycle, fast time-to-delivery
Deploy to solid production environment
High availability and performance under load were key requirements

17. Scalable Website Azure can help: Speed QA while containing costs…
Multi-user website: Dev, Test, and Prod
Azure can help: Automate Dev Tasks with VSO…
Azure can help: Scale production…
… scaling up/down to match demand
Dev
Quality Assurance
(QA)
Production

18. Solution Summary
No capital (CAPEX) costs for ongoing Dev, Quality Assurance (QA), Prod
2015 CAPEX will be $0!
QA environment costs incurred only for duration of test period
We made some small software changes to enable auto Load Balancing
Full load balancing included with Azure Websites - $150/month runtime costs!
Total Azure spending less than $2K per year!
(vs on-prem costs of over $75K in hardware load balancer alone)

19. Multiple Environments
Development efforts around 3rd-party vendor applications
Multiple development teams working simultaneously
Development teams constrained by test environment availability and sizing
High costs associated with testing and validation

20. Multiple Environments
Create isolated test environments on demand…
Enterprise App with Database, Logic, and Web
Database
Business Logic
Website
Environment A
Environment B
Environment C

21. Solution Summary
Provide isolated, FULL SCALE environment for dev and test to each group
Each team is able to deliver faster without waiting for a test environment
Environments are in use only when needed – no waste

22. Complex Enterprise
Large multi-application, multi-server, multi-database environment
Mix of vendor and in-house applications
Need to test development, new vendor features, new customer scenarios
Huge capital cost to implement

23. User Acceptance Testing
Complex Enterprise
$1,200/m
$1,200/m
$1,200/m
$1,200/m
$1,200/month
$200K
$200K
$400K
$400K
$1.2M
$400K
$400K
User Acceptance Testing
(UAT)
QA DR
Dev
Test
Quality Assurance
(QA)
Production
Disaster
Recovery
(DR)

24. Complex Enterprise Azure spending between $3K and $6K/month
Created PowerShell scripts to automate deployment of full-scale environments on demand
Teams execute the scripts to create environments as needed
Environments are retired when no longer needed
Azure spending between $3K and $6K/month
Saved ~$2.4 Million Capital Expenditure (CAPEX)

25. Summary of Real World Experience
Azure is a perfect solution for variable, on-demand environments like Dev/Test - “Spin up exactly what you need, when you need it”
Developers and testers are more efficient with isolated, production-sized environments: but its too expensive to do on-prem
Azure allows you to create optimal Dev/Test environments way faster and for way less money
With careful engineering changes, most production applications can implement auto-scaling in Azure to automatically scale-up/scale-down when user demand changes dramatically – e.g.: Xmas Rush)

26. Roadmap for your organization
Section 05
Action Plan
Roadmap for your organization

27. ObjectSharp – What we offer
Process
Expert advise and onsite coaching
Tools
Setting-up and Best Practices for automated tooling (eg: VSO)
Infrastructure
Deploying Dev/Test (and Production) to Azure, scripting and automation
Best Practices from real world experience

28. ObjectSharp Onsite Azure Assessment
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Management Overview
Technical Hands-on Workshop
Customized Road Map
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