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Azure Devops: Any App, Any Platform, Any Code About Me Azure DevOps: Any App, Any Platform, Any Code About Me • Partner with MCW Technologies, https://www.mcwtech.com • Co-author Professional ALM with Visual Studio 2013 from Wrox • 15-year Microsoft MVP—Development Technologies and long time Friend of Redgate • LinkedIn Learning author with two courses currently • DevOps for the Database with VSTS and Azure | https://bri.gd/lildbdevopsvsts0818 • DevOps for the Database with TFS 2018 | https://bri.gd/lildbdevopstfs18 • Co-host with Mickey Gousset of the “young” devops.fm podcast • Contact information • [email protected] | @brianrandell | https://blog.brianrandell.com Thank You for attending! Agenda . Level Set . Plan & Track . Develop & Test . Release . Monitor & Learn Questions? Azure DevOps Level Set replaced use technology faster, better, and cheaper What is DevOps? “ people process products ” High Performance DevOps Companies Achieve… 46x Deployment 2,555x Faster Lead Frequency Time For Changes Faster Increased DevOps $ Time to Market Revenue 7x Lower Change 2,604x Faster Mean Failure Rate Time to Recover Source: 2018 Accelerate: State of DevOps: Strategies for a New Economy." N. Forsgren, J. Humble, G. Kim. DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) DevOps goals and success metrics I’m not sure we need DevOps … This is the story of how a company with nearly $400 million in assets went bankrupt in 45-minutes because of a failed deployment. Knight Capital Group Knight Capital . Was a financial services firm on NYSE . New order handling feature—create child orders . Replaced old code with new code . 9 year old unused code in the system . Repurposed a flag to activate new code . At deployment, technician copied on 7 of 8 servers Then they went live… They started loosing $172,222 per minute. Then they tried to fix it… Knight ended the day losing $460 million and went under bankruptcy protection. What would be the impact in your organization? How do we know so much? Post mortem During the deployment of the new code, however, one of Knight’s technicians did not copy the new code to one of the eight SMARS computer servers. Knight did not have a second technician review this deployment and no one at Knight realized that the Power Peg code had not been removed from the eighth server, nor the new RLP code added. Knight had no written procedures that required such a review. SEC Filing | Release No. 70694 | October 16, 2013 Maybe something happier? DevOps at Microsoft Azure DevOps is the toolchain of choice for Microsoft engineering with over 100,000 internal users https://aka.ms/DevOpsAtMicrosoft 442k 4.6m 28k Pull Requests per Builds per month Work items month created per day 2.4m 3.5k 12k 82,000 Private Git commits per Open Source repos Employees contributing Deployments per day month to open source Data: Internal Microsoft engineering system activity, March 2019 How do you get started? Learn from others 10+ Deploys Per Day John Allspaw & Paul Hammond 10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr http://bri.gd/tenplusdeploy People Process Products People Can’t we all get along? Kaizen is a system of continuous improvement in quality, technology, processes, company culture, productivity, safety and leadership. Process Shorten Cycle Times and Focus on the Flow Products How Microsoft can help Microsoft Azure is a powerful and flexible foundation for past, present, and future apps – easily build, manage, and deploy any application and any stack on a massive, global network using your favorite tools and frameworks. Flexible Powerful Open Choice of IaaS, PaaS, public cloud or Instantly improve the performance, Bring your stack, we bring a cloud that hybrid. scalability and resiliency of your apps runs any app, on any platform, and any by moving them to the cloud. language. Mirror or modernize app infrastructure with VMs, containers, microservices or Increase business agility with Cloud- Build applications using the language serverless. Native capabilities and built-in and tools of your choice - Azure DevOps for continuous innovation. supports what you already use and love Supports all stages of the app so you can get up and running fast – modernization journey – from lift-and- just bring code. shift to Cloud-Native. Azure DevOps What technologies do I need to support DevOps? DevOps brings together people, processes, and technology, automating software delivery to provide continuous value to your users. Using Azure DevOps, you can deliver software faster and more reliably - no matter how big your IT department or what tools you’re using. Continuous Integration (CI) Continuous Deployment (CD) Continuous Learning & Monitoring • Improve software development • By combining continuous integration • With Azure Application Insights you quality and speed. and infrastructure as code (IaC), you’ll can identify how your applications are achieve identical deployments and performing and test if the recent • When you use Azure Pipelines or the confidence to deploy to deployment made things better or Jenkins to build apps in the cloud and production at any time. worse. deploy to Azure, each time you commit code, it’s automatically built • With continuous deployment, you can • Using CI/CD practices, paired with and tested and bugs are detected automate the entire process from monitoring tools, you’ll be able to safely faster. code commit to production if your deliver features to your customers as CI/CD tests are successful. soon as they’re ready. Microsoft Azure is the cloud with DevOps tooling built in Azure Boards Azure Repos Azure Pipelines Azure Artifacts Azure Test Plans Azure Boards Track work with Kanban boards, backlogs, team dashboards, and custom reporting Connected from idea to release Track all your ideas at every development stage and keep your team aligned with all code changes linked directly to work items. Scrum ready Use built-in scrum boards and planning tools to help your teams run sprints, daily scrums, retrospectives, and sprint review. Project insights Gain new insights into the health and status of your project with powerful analytics tools and dashboard widgets. https://azure.com/devops Azure Repos Unlimited private Git repo hosting and support for TFVC that scales from a hobby project to the world’s largest Git repositories Works with your Git client Securely connect with and push code into your Git repos from any IDE, editor, or Git client. Web hooks and API integration Add validations and extensions from the marketplace or build your own using web hooks and REST APIs. Semantic code search Quickly find what you’re looking for with code-aware search that understands classes and variables. https://azure.com/devops Azure Pipelines Cloud-hosted pipelines for Linux, Windows and macOS, with unlimited minutes for open source Any language, any platform, any cloud Build, test, and deploy Node.js, Python, Java, PHP, Ruby, C/C++, .NET, Android, and iOS apps. Run in parallel on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Deploy to Azure, AWS, GCP or on-premises Extensible Explore and implement a wide range of community- built build, test, and deployment tasks, along with hundreds of extensions from Slack to SonarCloud. Support for YAML, reporting and more Containers and Kubernetes Easily build and push images to container registries like Docker Hub and Azure Container Registry. Deploy containers to individual hosts or Kubernetes. Best-in-class for open source Ensure fast continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines for every open source project. Get unlimited build minutes for all open source projects with up to 10 free parallel jobs across Linux, macOS and Windows https://azure.com/pipelines Azure Artifacts Create and share Maven, npm, and NuGet package feeds from public and private sources – fully integrated into CI/CD pipelines Manage all package types Get universal artifact management for Maven, npm, and NuGet. Add packages to any pipeline Share packages, and use built-in CI/CD, versioning, and testing. Share code efficiently Easily share code across small teams and large enterprises. https://azure.com/devops Azure Test Plans Get end-to-end traceability. Run tests and log defects from your browser. Track and assess quality throughout your testing lifecycle. Capture rich data Capture rich scenario data as you execute tests to make discovered defects actionable. Explore user stories without test cases or test steps. You can create test cases directly from your exploratory test sessions. Test across web and desktop Test your application where it lives. Complete scripted tests across desktop or web scenarios. Test on- premises application from the cloud and vice-versa. Get end-to-end traceability Leverage the same test tools across your engineers and user acceptance testing stakeholders. Pay for the tools only when you need them. https://azure.com/devops Azure DevOps 2018 Microsoft Open Source 2017 Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service launched 2016 Draft, Brigade, Kashti projects submitted to .NET Core 1.0 Kubernetes community PowerShell Core Microsoft joins Cloud Windows Subsystem for Native Computing & Linux in Windows 10 Cloud Foundry Foundations Microsoft joins Linux foundation SQL 2017 on Linux GitHub recognizes Windows source code Microsoft as a top open moved to Git source contributor Azure Databricks (Apache Spark) announced 2012 2018 Azure Pipelines Microsoft Open Source Free unlimited build minutes for public projects Up to 10 free parallel jobs across Windows, Linux and macOS https://azure.com/pipelines Azure DevOps Better together Azure Boards Azure Repos Azure Pipelines
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