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DevOps Primer

How do you describe DevOps? It’s not easy, but I like to think of it as a transformation that involves people, processes, and products (in this order). It involves development, testing, operations, business, and other teams working together, efficiently, to deliver better and faster results to customers. A great starting point is The Phoenix Project novel. Microsoft and particularly the Cloud + Enterprise group underwent a shift towards DevOps practices internally to deliver better services across the board. Here is a sample of DevOps practices roughly in the order you might apply them:
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC) – use your software development processes to manage the deployment and configuration of systems and applications automatically.
  • Continuous Integration (CI) – merge all working copies of developers’ code with a shared mainline, producing a new build upon code check-in.
  • Automated Testing – run load, integration, and unit tests automatically attached to CI or some other means.
  • Continuous Deployment/Delivery (CD) – usually comes after CI to push a new known good build to an environment automatically or on a schedule.
  • Application Performance Monitoring/Management (APM) – have visibility into key metrics about your applications, as well as alerts and logging about their health.
  • Release Management – automate deployment of new applications as well as changes to applications across managed environments. It builds on CD and adds approvals, traceability and rollback across environments.
  • Configuration Management – handle changes systematically so that your systems maintain integrity over time.
As you can see they all have shared goals of automation, reducing errors, and improving quality and agility and require teams to work together. So, where to start? Take the DevOps Self-Assessment to help you learn about your existing processes, watch the free courses on Microsoft Virtual Academy, and review what Visual Studio Online offers to start your own path towards DevOps!

 

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Thiago Almeida Senior Developer and Technical Evangelist TED Services and Devices Microsoft Corporation

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