Sitecore DevOps Goodness on Azure:Visual Studio Team ServicesPresented by:Tim McCarthyGeorge Chang

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Tim McCarthySenior Solutions Architect@tmccart_1

Introductions

George ChangSolutions Architect@sitecoregeorge

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• What is DevOps?• Infrastructure as Code on Microsoft Azure• Using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to enable

Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery

Agenda

What is DevOps?

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

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• Azure is a developer’s best friend!• Building the Azure environments with

Azure ARM Templates and PowerShell• DSC – make sure IIS is there!• Custom Extension – configure Sitecore!

• Provisioning the Sitecore databases into SQL Azure

Infrastructure as Code

Developers

Demo

Building out a Sitecore environment on Microsoft Azure via Code

Continuous Delivery“There should be two tasks for a human being to perform to deploy software into a development, test, or production environment: to pick the version and environment and to press the “deploy” button.”― David Farley, Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation

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#Sitecore SYM

• Source Control• Git• The other one (TFVC)

• Development Lifecycle Management• Associate tasks with branches/check-ins• Create pull requests/use gated check-ins for review• Consider your build process

Process, process, process!

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#Sitecore SYM

• Package managers• NuGet – assembly references

(like Sitecore!)• npm – “client-side” references

• Task runners• gulp• grunt

• Solution management• Visual Studio Team Services• Jira• GitHub

Tools, tools, tools!

• Build• Visual Studio Team Services• Jenkins• TeamCity

• Test• Visual Studio Team Services• JUnit

• Deploy• Visual Studio Team Services• Octopus• Chef

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#Sitecore SYM

• Build• Fetch code from repository• Compile code• Execute tasks• Automated testing

• Release• Retrieve build artifacts• Perform environment-specific transforms• Deploy build artifacts to specific environment

Build and Release

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Build and ReleaseBuild

Release

Compile Code Execute Tasks

Config Transforms

Build Artifacts

Automated Testing

Dev Environment Staging Environment Prod Environment

Code Repository

Config Transforms Config Transforms

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• Environments• Development• Staging• Production

• Build definition• #onebuildtorulethemall• Transformations for environment-specific settings

• Continuous delivery• Deploy the same build to each environment

Continuous Delivery with VSTS

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• Create build definition• Create release definitions• Manage item serialization• Team Development for Sitecore• Unicorn

• Sitecore PowerShell Extensions• Pre/Post-deployment scripting

Continuous Delivery with VSTS

Demo

Automated Build and Deployment in VSTS

Next steps/Resources

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What to do• Start using VSTS for your build and release platform• Learn about and use Azure ARM Templates• Get our code from GitHub!• Start provisioning your Sitecore environments to Azure

Resources available• Azure Quickstart Templates• Visual Studio Team Services• Donovan Brown• Patrick Perrone

Questions?

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Contact Us• Tim McCarthy Email: tim.mccarthy@perficient.com Twitter: @tmccart_1• George Chang Email: george.chang@perficient.com Twitter: @sitecoregeorgeFor a deeper dive, come visit us in the Perficient booth!

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