DevOps on the Microsoft Stack

296 Pages·2016·22.093 MB·English

by  Wouter de Kort

THE EXPERT’S VOICE® IN .NET
DevOps on the
Microsoft Stack
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Wouter de Kort
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DevOps on the
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Wouter de Kort

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DevOps on the Microsoft Stack
Wouter de Kort
Ordina Microsoft Solutions
GRONINGEN, The Netherlands
ISBN-13 (pbk): 978-1-4842-1447-3 ISBN-13 (electronic): 978-1-4842-1446-6
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4842-1446-6
Library of Congress Control Number: 2016939388
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Contents at a Glance
Foreword .................................................................................................................xi
About the Author ...................................................................................................xiii
About the Technical Reviewers ...............................................................................xv
Acknowledgments .................................................................................................xvii
Preface ...................................................................................................................xix
■ Part I: Getting Started .........................................................................1
■ Chapter 1: What Is DevOps? ..................................................................................3
■ Chapter 2: Introducing Azure and Visual Studio Team Services ...........................9
■ Part II: Plan .......................................................................................17
■ Chapter 3: Agile Project Management: The Importance of Communication ........19
■ Chapter 4: Managing User Feedback: Knowing What to Build ............................43
■ Chapter 5: Advanced Agile Project Management ................................................55
■ Chapter 6: Dashboards and Reporting .................................................................77
■ Part III: Code and Build .....................................................................97
■ Chapter 7: Setting Up Version Control .................................................................99
■ Chapter 8: Managing Technical Debt .................................................................137
■ Chapter 9: Implementing Continuous Integration .............................................161
■ Chapter 10: Creating and Sharing Packages .....................................................189
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■ CONTENTS AT A GLANCE
■ Part IV: Test, Deploy, and Monitor ...................................................203
■ Chapter 11: Integrating Testers into DevOps .....................................................205
■ Chapter 12: Implementing Continuous Delivery with Release Management .......231
■ Chapter 13: Using Application Insights .............................................................261
■ Chapter 14: The Path Forward ...........................................................................277
Index .....................................................................................................................283
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Contents
Foreword .................................................................................................................xi
About the Author ...................................................................................................xiii
About the Technical Reviewers ...............................................................................xv
Acknowledgments .................................................................................................xvii
Preface ...................................................................................................................xix
■ Part I: Getting Started .........................................................................1
■ Chapter 1: What Is DevOps? ..................................................................................3
Why Are We Doing DevOps? .............................................................................................3
Assessing Your DevOps Capability ...................................................................................6
Summary ..........................................................................................................................8
■ Chapter 2: Introducing Azure and Visual Studio Team Services ...........................9
Understanding the Microsoft Cloud: Azure .......................................................................9
IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS ............................................................................................................................10
Security ................................................................................................................................................11
Using Visual Studio Team Services .................................................................................14
Security ................................................................................................................................................15
The Need for Training .....................................................................................................16
Summary ........................................................................................................................16
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■ CONTENTS
■ Part II: Plan .......................................................................................17
■ Chapter 3: Agile Project Management: The Importance of Communication ........19
Agile Project Management .............................................................................................19
Agile Tooling ...................................................................................................................22
Sprints ..................................................................................................................................................22
Product Backlog Items ..........................................................................................................................24
Tasks.....................................................................................................................................................27
Impediments .........................................................................................................................................28
Bugs......................................................................................................................................................30
Capacity ................................................................................................................................................32
Team Rooms ...................................................................................................................36
Achieving Traceability with Developers ..........................................................................39
Summary ........................................................................................................................41
■ Chapter 4: Managing User Feedback: Knowing What to Build ............................43
Why We Need Better Communication .............................................................................43
Creating Storyboards with PowerPoint ..........................................................................44
Involving Stakeholders in Feedback Management .........................................................47
Summary ........................................................................................................................53
■ Chapter 5: Advanced Agile Project Management ................................................55
Kanban and Lean ............................................................................................................55
Portfolio Management ....................................................................................................67
Summary ........................................................................................................................75
■ Chapter 6: Dashboards and Reporting .................................................................77
Queries ...........................................................................................................................77
Using the Search Box ...........................................................................................................................77
Work Item Queries ................................................................................................................................79
Charts ...................................................................................................................................................83
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Code Search ...................................................................................................................89
Dashboards ....................................................................................................................92
Alerts and Notifi cations ..................................................................................................93
Summary ........................................................................................................................96
■ Part III: Code and Build .....................................................................97
■ Chapter 7: Setting Up Version Control .................................................................99
Introducing Version Control ............................................................................................99
Using Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) ............................................................103
Workspace ..........................................................................................................................................103
Checking in a Changeset ....................................................................................................................106
Get Latest and Merge Confl icts ..........................................................................................................110
History, Annotations, and CodeLens ....................................................................................................111
Shelvesets and Suspending Your Work...............................................................................................114
Branches .............................................................................................................................................119
Check-In Policies ................................................................................................................................122
Using the Git Version Control System ...........................................................................124
Clone ...................................................................................................................................................124
Commit and Push ...............................................................................................................................125
Fetch and Pull .....................................................................................................................................127
Branch ................................................................................................................................................128
Pull Request ........................................................................................................................................130
Choosing a Branching Strategy ....................................................................................134
Branch Scenarios ...............................................................................................................................134
Feature Toggles ..................................................................................................................................135
Summary ......................................................................................................................136
■ Chapter 8: Managing Technical Debt .................................................................137
Running Code Analysis .................................................................................................138
Code Metrics ................................................................................................................141
Lines of Code ......................................................................................................................................142
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Cyclomatic Complexity .......................................................................................................................144
Coupling ..............................................................................................................................................144
Depth of Inheritance ...........................................................................................................................146
Calculating Code Metrics ....................................................................................................................146
Finding Duplications .....................................................................................................147
Validating the Architecture ...........................................................................................149
Create and Run Unit Tests ............................................................................................152
Creating Custom Code Analyzers with Roslyn ..............................................................156
Summary ......................................................................................................................160
■ Chapter 9: Implementing Continuous Integration .............................................161
Confi guring a Continuous Integration Build ..................................................................162
Installing and Confi guring Build Agents .......................................................................173
Creating Custom Tasks .................................................................................................175
Using SonarQube ..........................................................................................................181
Summary ......................................................................................................................187
■ Chapter 10: Creating and Sharing Packages .....................................................189
What Are Packages? ....................................................................................................189
Package Management for Visual Studio Team Services ..............................................195
Summary ......................................................................................................................201
■ Part IV: Test, Deploy, and Monitor ...................................................203
■ Chapter 11: Integrating Testers into DevOps .....................................................205
Manual Testing Through Web Access ...........................................................................205
Microsoft Test Manager ................................................................................................216
Automated Testing ........................................................................................................220
Summary ......................................................................................................................229
■ Chapter 12: Implementing Continuous Delivery with Release Management .......231
Understanding the Deployment Pipeline ......................................................................231
Setting Up Automatic Releases with Release Management .........................................232
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Deploying Web Sites .....................................................................................................246
Understanding Containers ............................................................................................256
Summary ......................................................................................................................259
■ Chapter 13: Using Application Insights .............................................................261
What Is Application Insights? .......................................................................................261
Confi guring Monitoring for Your Application .................................................................263
Availability Monitoring ..................................................................................................269
Usage Monitoring .........................................................................................................272
Diagnose Failures and Exceptions ...............................................................................274
Summary ......................................................................................................................275
■ Chapter 14: The Path Forward ...........................................................................277
The Basics ....................................................................................................................277
Stepping It Up ...............................................................................................................280
Finishing Touches .........................................................................................................281
Summary ......................................................................................................................282
Index .....................................................................................................................283
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