Dev Blogs
With the release of Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 2 at //Build 2016, you get all the new Release Management (RM) features integrated right into TFS. The Release hub in the TFS web interface is your entry point to managing and tracking all of your application deployments.
When a deployment fails, it is likely to leave an environment in an unhealthy state. A rollback strategy is required to get the environment back to a healthy state. There are various options that can be considered as a rollback strategy. We're almost talking about option 2 being a major/minor release and option 3 being a hotfix l...
I had earlier blogged about how we use Release Management to run our test automation in the RM team. Since then, the RM service or Release Management Online (RMO) has added support for parallel environments (with the Sprint 94 payload (also called M94)), and we have tweaked our automation pipeline to leverage this feature. We now have all our tes...
Over the last few months, there has been a consistent ask for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) / Team Foundation Server (TFS) Testing Tools roadmap. I would like to share our strategic direction, what we have delivered over the last 6 months and where we are headed. It would be great to get your feedback on what we are doing right and where we ...
We are rolling out a number of orchestration improvements in Release management service. These improvements are explained in the release notes here and here. One of the key features in this release is that you will be able to author more complex release definitions, where the deployments can happen to multiple environments in parallel. You do not h...
Over the next several months, our Visual Studio Team Foundation (VSTS) Java teams are focusing on new essential developer workflows for our IntelliJ plugin and a simplification of our authentication checks and getting-started improvements for our Eclipse plugin, Team Explorer Everywhere (TEE).The list below is only an indication of direction with m...
My colleague Abhishek Agarwal wrote a nice article on how the Release Management team dog-foods Release Management service as part of their development process. It is a good use case for how you can use RM for deploying and testing your applications on a daily basis (or for every check-in).http://blogs.msdn.com/b/abhishea/archive/2016/01/04/how-we-...
Good friend and coworker, Sam Guckenheimer presented at a recent Gartner conference how we changed the developer division from shipping a box product ~every year to delivering value every week with Visual Studio Team Services. In this presentation Sam discusses how we scaled our process to this cadence(production first mindset), how to focus ...
Looking to export a Release Management agent based deployment pipeline so that it can be reused in the Release Management service in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)? We have released a migration tool and associated guidance as an open source project, allowing you to use “as is” or contribute to the project. If a Pull Request shows up at the doo...
As you may have seen from the DevOps presentation I have been hanging out with Cory lately… For his PHPWorld Presentation we teamed up to see how hard it would be to get our DevOps demo working with PHP. Specifically creating a CI build for PHP and as part of that pipeline run a load test…turns out it was a piece of cake and it took longer to wri...