The Microsoft DevOps VisionDonovan Brown

Session Objective(s): Show how Microsoft’s tools address DevOps practicesWe will tour the products but not full E2E demos that is my other session

Microsoft is a key player in the DevOps spaceOur tools enable teams regardless of the technology they use or the platform they target

Session Objectives And Takeaways

It’s DevOps!

It’s DevOps!

It’s DevOps!It’s DevOps!

“DevOps is the union of people, process, and products to enable continuous delivery of value to our end users.”Donovan Brown

http://bit.ly/WhatIs-DevOps

How we became agile and transformed a box software product into

a service…

The journey

TFS2008

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Visual Studio

Our rolesProgram Manager – Responsible to ensure we’re building the right thing.

Engineer – Responsible to ensure we’re building products that are fast, reliable, and well engineered AND high quality and meets customers needs.

Our teamsProgram Management Engineering

Cross discipline10-12 peopleSelf managingAutonomous backlogIntact for 12-18 monthsPhysical team rooms

Teams

3 week sprints

3 weeks

3 week sprints

Week 1 Week 2 Week 3

Week 1 Week 2 Week 3Week 2 Week 3

Sprint 69Sprint 68 Sprint 70

Deployment

Sprint Planning Done!

What we accomplished

3 week sprints

Week 1 Week 2 Week 3

Week 1 Week 2 Week 3Week 2 Week 3

Sprint 86Sprint 85 Sprint 87

The sprint plan

Sprint mails

Plan Accomplished

Code Test & Stabilize Code Test & Stabilize

CodeComplete

Quality before

Quality before• Multi-year cycles• Milestones and stabilizations• Debt

Quality after

Bugs

Engineering scorecard

• Multi-year cycles → cloud cadence• Box → live site/DevOps• On-premises TFS → Visual Studio Team

Services• Dev and QA → engineer• Mostly functional tests → mostly unit• Accepting test failures → 100% reliability

and fast

Transform engineering

Deployment principlesNo down timeFully automatedJoint ownership between engineering and opsDecoupled services: clear contractsFeature flags

Feature flagsDecouples engineering and marketingControl exposureGranularControlled via PowerShellSupports early feedback, experimentationConferences, launches

Source control

Agile planningTest case

managementBuild automationContinuous deploymentRelease

managementLoad testing

Lab management

Our solutionVisual StudioTeam Services

Team Foundation

Server

Source control

Agile planningTest case

managementBuild automationContinuous deploymentRelease

managementLoad testing

Lab management

Our solution

Feedback managementTeam collaborationApplication

telemetry

Visual StudioTeam Services

Team Foundation

Server

Manage the full stack

Provision Environment Azure Resource Manager

Configure Environment Desired State Configuration

Tracking Work TFS / VSTS

Planning Work TFS / VSTS

Install Application NuGet, WebDeploy, etc

Configure Application Tokenization

Create Test Data BacPac with SSDT

Automated Tests Coded UI, Web, Load

Manual Tests Microsoft Test Manager

Notify Approvers Release Management

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Release Management for Visual Studio

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Application Insights

People | Process | Tools

Workstations - On-Premises | Hybrid | Cloud Monitoring - On-Premises | Hybrid | CloudALM Services - On-Premises | Hybrid | Cloud

DEV TEST QA

Environments - On-Premises | Hybrid | Cloud

TFS / VSTS

TFS / VSTS

TFS / VSTS

VSTS

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This graphic shows OSS and partner products that are integrated with the Microsoft DevOps solution

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Release

People | Process | Tools

List of DevOps Practices• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)• Continuous Integration• Automated Testing• Continuous Deployment• Release Management• App Performance Monitoring• Load Testing & Auto-Scale

• Availability Monitoring• Capacity Management• Change/Configuration Management• Feature Flags• Automated Environment De-Provisioning• Self Service Environments• Automated Recovery (Rollback & Roll-

Forward)• Hypothesis Driven Development

• Testing in Production• Fault Injection• Usage Monitoring / User Telemetry

http://www.itproguy.com/devops-practices/

Plan1 Monitor +

Learn

Release

Develop + Test2

Development

Production

4

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DevOps

It starts with an idea – and a plan how to turn this idea into reality …

Manage work

Develop + Test

1

PlanProject starts

PlanTrack progress

Kanban

Write Code

Unit Testing

2

Build

Version Control

Build Verification

Release

Once the iteration starts, developers turn great ideas into features …

Develop + Test

Source Build

Continuous Integration

Value• Accelerate Delivery• Repeatability • Optimized Resources

Measure• More frequent releases• MTTR• MTTD

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Test

DEV OPSOPS

Continuous Integration

CloudLoad

TestingIntegration testing

environment

Automated functional testing environment

3

Pre-production environment

Stagingenvironment

Monitor + Learn

When all tests pass, the build is deployed to testing environments for each stage in the release process

Release

SOURCE REPO DEV

Release Management

Value• Optimized Resources• Accelerate Delivery

Measure• Deployment Rate• MTTR• Availability

STAGE

PRODUCTIONDEV OPS

Continuous Deployment & Release Management

Learn and understand how users use your app, how it reacts and quickly fix issues and bugs

Monitor + Learn

4

Monitor

Feedback

Plan the next iteration

Monitor and LearnTesting in Production

PRODUCTION A PRODUCTION B

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Fault Injection

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