2. The Past…
Deployments - last minute - others
got to play TT
Folders
Databases including rollback scripts
Web.Config!
Release notes
Pain for everyone
Deployment time measured in hours
and repeated for each
environment
3. Present aka the pipeline
Deployments - automated
Folders use MSBuild
Transforms use msbuild
Database use Fluent Migrations
Release Notes use PowerShell script with
team city API
Deployment time from build to TEST
environment WW ~10 minutes
4. Implementation of pipeline
Came out of retrospective which
highlighted issues with current
deployment processes
Got 1 week sprint in mid Feb
Completed MS build scripts
Integrated FluentMigrator
Created packages to be consumed by
Octopus Deploy
5. FTW
Allowed us to fail fast
Release to production cadence increased
Moved away from big mono lithic releases
6. Reuben’s Buckets
A build bucket
Stuff for the build aka state
A release bucket
Environment
7. Build components
TFS build was complex
Can test MSBuild scripts locally
Code reuse
Release Notes
Tests, CI, Catch migrations issues
8. Release
All the cool kids were using it
Great visibility of version in specific environment
Great for providing structure to automate releases
Has API to further
Code reuse
.Net focused
Transforms now live here
Is more suited for release where you own the metal
