How to set the build quality during your release with Release Management 21 March 2015 Donovan-Brown Work (9) I was recently asked the following question. "I would like the build quality to be set by the R [More]
How many vendors does it take to implement DevOps? 24 February 2015 Donovan-Brown Work (1) I was recently reading a post titled “5 Secrets of Enterprise DevOps”. It is a very interestin [More]
Do you, Release Management, take this feature, Deployment Slots, to be your DevOps partner? 13 February 2015 Donovan-Brown Work (0) Abstract When I first started reading about Deployment Slots I had more questions than answers. My most obvious concern was what ... [More]
So you want to move from agent based Release Management to vNext but still need Tokenization. 13 February 2015 Donovan-Brown Work (0) The xReleaseManagement resource brings Release Management Tokenization to Desired State Configuration. The xReleaseManagement resource enables a natural migration path from Agent Based Release Management deployments to DSC (or vNext) based deployments. This resource supports using the techniq... [More]
Release Management Comparison Chart 09 February 2015 Donovan-Brown Work (0) This blog post is comparing the current features set of Microsoft’s hosted Release Management solution – Release Management Online (RMO) and the on premises Release Management product. Feature Comparison (as of February 2015) On Premises RMO az... [More]
My DSC works from PowerShell ISE but not from Release Management 06 February 2015 Donovan-Brown Work (0) If you are like me you learned Desired State Configuration (DSC) before trying to incorporate it with Release Management. I recommend this because you get a pure understanding of DSC and its full capabilities. The only caveat to learning DSC this way is certain things are different when used ... [More]
Achieving Continuous Delivery with VSO and RMO (it is easier than you think) 14 January 2015 Donovan-Brown Work (0) Release Management Online (RMO) monitors the build definition configured to a release template. When the build is completed a release is automatically kicked off. This is a great step forward from the past where we had to use custom build templates or resort the CLI or REST API to trigger a build.&n... [More]
How to use VSO and RMO to deploy an Azure Website 21 November 2014 Donovan-Brown Work (0) This is a neat post because we are going to be using all three Azure offerings SaaS, PaaS and IaaS.& [More]