Roopesh Nair

Principal Program Manager, Azure DevOps

Program Manager #Azure DevOps

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Announcing General Availability of YAML CD features in Azure Pipelines

April 28th, 2020
Azure Pipelines YAML CD features now generally available We’re excited to announce the general availability of the Azure Pipelines YAML CD features. We now offer a unified YAML experience to configure each of your pipelines to do CI, CD, or CI and CD together. Releases vs. YAML pipelines Azure Pipelines supports continuous integration (...

Improved Continuous Delivery capabilities and caching for Azure Pipelines

November 5th, 2019
What's new with Azure Pipelines. We've updated Continuous Delivery capabilities with triggers on other pipelines and Azure Container Registry, and implemented new deployment strategies for VMs and Kubernetes. We're also making Pipeline Caching and Pipeline Artifacts generally available.

Deployment Groups is now generally available: sharing of targets and more…

March 26th, 2018
We are excited to announce that Deployment Groups is out of preview and is now generally available. Deployment Groups is a robust out-of-the-box multi-machine deployment feature of Release Management in VSTS/TFS.  What are Deployment Groups? With Deployment Groups, you can orchestrate deployments across multiple servers and perform rolling...

Announcing public preview of the new Deployment Groups in Release Management

May 11th, 2017
Today we are excited to announce the public preview of the new Deployment Groups in Visual Studio Team Services. Release Management now supports robust in-the-box multi-machine deployment. You can now orchestrate  deployments across multiple machines, perform rolling updates whilst ensuring high availability of the application throughout. ...

Deploy PHP application to Azure App Service using VSTS

April 18th, 2017
This blog post shows how you can deploy a new PHP application from Visual Studio Team Services or Microsoft Team Foundation Server to Azure App Service. Download the sample Fork the Hello World sample app repository to your github account https://github.com/RoopeshNair/php-docs-hello-world Create a web app From Azure portal >...

Agent-based deployment in Release Management

March 3rd, 2017
Release Management now supports robust in-the-box multi-machine deployment. You can now orchestrate  deployments across multiple machines, perform rolling updates while ensuring high availability of the application throughout. Agent based deployment capability relies on the same build and deployment agents. However, unlike the current ...

Agent-based deployment in Release Management

December 5th, 2016
Agent-based deployment in Release Management Our approach in Release management so far has been to integrate with various deployment tools and platforms while providing rich control over the flow of bits, traceability, and auditability. When it comes to PaaS deployments, we have first-class integration with Azure, platform abstracts out the ...

Deploying Azure Cloud Service using Release Management

February 9th, 2015
 Summary You have downloaded the Release Management for Visual Studio client, and are connected to either your Visual Studio Online account. You have an Azure Cloud Service project and want to use Release Management to update the same using the latest drop from a TFS buildIn the current state, you will have to write Powershell scripts on...

Deploying using PowerShell Desired State Configuration in Release Management

July 22nd, 2014
With Microsoft Release Management 2013 Update 3 RC, you can now use Windows PowerShell or Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) for deploying and managing configuration data.   > Windows PowerShell (PS) > > Refer to Scripting with Windows PowerShell (PS) for more details. These scripts can be same as...

How to trigger deployments to Chef managed environments from Release Management 2013 with Update 3 RC

July 8th, 2014
    Pre-requisites for triggering Chef deployments using RM: Target node must already be bootstrapped and registered with Chef server Relevant cookbooks uploaded to Chef Server. Cookbook should have an attribute which maps to build drop location. Recipes assigned to Node. Deployment using Chef:  As a first ...