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.
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.
5 Questions to ask about IoT Any company that has a device, data or software story has an opinion about what IoT is. This creates confusion, especially when it comes to which providers can help you realize its value. The Internet of Things is part of a larger story about connected infrastructure and big data that’s been revitalized by the low cost of devices, connectivity and the cloud. Scott Gu's summary puts this nicely.
New Era of Windows 10 Devices There are more than 110 million devices already running Windows 10. The new Windows Store has also experienced over 1.25 billion visits with developer revenue per download increasing four times since Windows 10 launched. Check out the new Windows 10 devices that were born in this era (hint: they're pretty cool).
AzureCon 2015 on demand The AzureCon sessions are now available to watch on demand. See Scott Gutherie's 'Journey to the Intelligent Cloud', and other top rated sessions such as how to 'Add identity into your cloud-based apps' and a 'Deep dive on the Azure Container Service'
Microsoft Azure Dev Camps 3 November (Christchurch)5 November (Wellington)12 November (Auckland) The Dev Camps are back. And just in time before 2015 starts to wrap up. You will learn how to use the new Microsoft Azure features and services including Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines, Web Apps, API Apps, Azure Data Platform, DocumentDB and Visual Studio 2015 to build and move a variety of apps to the cloud.
This week's apps help proved access New Zealand's largest business directory in style, new products from top retailers via TradeMe and access to information from Xero while you’re working in Office 365.
Have a Windows project on the side? Show it off! Share it with the rest of the community in the Kiwi Windows Apps Facebook Group or send us an email at msdnnz@microsoft.com.
Developer Interview Series In this interview series, we bring you best practices, anecdotes, and insights from developers who are building creative solutions using Microsoft technologies.
Interview #3: Michele Leroux Bustamante is the Founder of California based Snapboard and a Microsoft Regional Director.
Azure Service Fabric Lifecycle Management The Service Fabric is the system that is underlying Windows Azure itself, and it's now being made available as a programming model for developers to create "Born in the Cloud" applications.
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