What is DevOps? with Donovan Brown
“DevOps is the union of people, process, and products to enable continuous delivery of value to our end users.” – Donovan Brown. Why we do “DevOps” comes down to that one big word Donovan highlights… value. Our customers want the services we provide to them to always be available, to be reliable, and to let them know if something is wrong. These are the same expectations we should all take when working together to deliver the application or service our end user will experience. By producing an environment that values a common goal amongst our team, we can see greater productivity and success for our users.
Donovan Brown opens the “Deliver DevOps” event at the Microsoft Reactor in the UK by taking us for a lap around Azure DevOps concluding with the announcement of a new UK geo to store your Azure DevOps data.
Slides: http://donovanbrown.com/page/slide-decks
What is DevOps? This is a question that seems to be constantly debated. Is it automation? Is it culture? Is DevOps a team? Is DevOps a philosophy? All great things to ask.
By looking to DevOps, teams are able to provide the most value for their customers. In this video, Donovan Brown, Principal DevOps Manager at Microsoft, gives us what the Microsoft definition of DevOps in just a few minutes.
Why We Do DevOps at Microsoft
Martin Woodward leads a whistle-stop tour of Microsoft’s seven-year DevOps journey, explaining why the company embarked on this transformation and what benefits it has already seen.
More DevOps Learning
These are just a few basics on DevOps from Donovan. From here, you’ll need to embark on your DevOps journey at your organization to practicing DevOps at your organization or even on a project you are just starting. Here you can find a number of links to some important documentation and free “at your own pace” learning from Microsoft Learn.
DevOps Resource Center – This center combines our resources on learning DevOps practices, Git version control, Agile methods, how we work with DevOps at Microsoft, and how you can assess your own DevOps progression.
DevOps at Microsoft – This center will keep you current on how we continue to adopt DevOps at Microsoft. We’ve selected the best videos and articles from both public conferences and internal training sessions.
What is DevOps? – A guide on what DevOps is and how to get there.
What is Continuous Integration? – Continuous Integration (CI) is the process of automating the build and testing of code every time a team member commits changes to version control.
What is Continuous Delivery? – Continuous Delivery (CD) is the process to build, test, configure and deploy from a build to a production environment.
What is DevOps Culture? – DevOps culture stresses small, multidisciplinary teams, who work autonomously and take collective accountability for how actual users experience their software.
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Do you have any discussion regarding DevOps for desktop application, typically how you do DevOps within the Visual Studio team ?
I usually asked questions about how Visual Studio and other product like Office does CI/CD and what is their impact when you do cannot do ‘continuous’ deployment.
Typically, we took advantage of feature flags in our desktop product just before you advertise them in Visual Studio for, I think, the same intent. But feature flags in that case are slightly different compare to online services ?
So any discussions for this specific case -yes some of us are still doing desktop application sold as a product to customer and not used directly internally- in the context of DevOps would be interesting !
Please check your links
The Agile in principle one does not work due to a ‘&’ being used instead of ‘?’.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/devops-at-microsoft/agile-principles-in-practice&WT.mc_id=devops-9472-jagord
Does not work but:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/devops-at-microsoft/agile-principles-in-practice?WT.mc_id=devops-9472-jagord
This seems to be true for most of the links, I don’t know whether you want to keep the ‘WT.mc_id=devops-9472-jagord’ in or not
All of the article links under How We Work with Azure DevOps are giving 404s.
I am also getting 404s errors under this section too :
How We Work with Azure DevOps
same issue. It’s a pity because i’m clearly interesting to see the content of these articles.
these links should be fixed now. sorry! weird formatting made an error.
these are the correct links, MS messed with the tracking parameters (ampersand instead of questionmark):
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/devops-at-microsoft/moving-cloud-cadence
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/devops-at-microsoft/agile-principles-in-practice
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/devops-at-microsoft/release-flow
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/devops-at-microsoft/security-in-devops
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/devops-at-microsoft/live-site-culture-and-reliability
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/devops-at-microsoft/evolving-test-practices-microsoft
You can also start here to get a lot more info about the topic:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/devops-at-microsoft/