My session at Techdays 2017 Netherlands on Mobile Devops with Visual Studio Mobile Center

1. VISUAL STUDIO MOBILE CENTER
A STORY ABOUT MOBILE DEVOPS
GEERT VAN DER CRUIJSEN

2. About Geert
Geert van der Cruijsen
Mobile First Cloud First Architect
Xpirit Netherlands
@geertvdc – geert@vdcruijsen.net

3. DevOps is the union of people, process, and products to
enable continuous delivery of value to our end users.
Donovan Brown

6. Requirements Develop
Build
ReleaseTestMonitor
Operate

8. This is a true story about Mobile DevOps
* Might contain parts that have happened in real life
Out of respect for the survivors their names have been changed
*

9. Jian Yang
Silicon valley based developer who
had a great app idea. “CFood”.

11. Jian YangGavin

12. Jian Yang
https://xpir.it/cfoodapp

13. https://xpir.it/cfoodapp

14. Jian Yang
Building the app is great but
sending these test releases
to Gavin cost me so much time.
Isn’t there a way to automate this?

15. Jian Yang
CEO
James
Release Ninja
Matt
1337 Hacker
Bob
App Quality Rockstar
Geert
Devops consultant

16. JamesIn charge of releasing to the store
Every time I’m making a build
to release it’s missing features
or the build contains errors

17. JamesIn charge of releasing to the store
Can’t we automate this as well?

18. BobIn charge of app quality
Our app keeps getting
1 star ratings.
How can we improve this?

19. BobIn charge of app quality
We need exception
Logging and tests!

20. Great job guys!
Our ratings are improving

21. But Gavin expects 5 stars!
Joe will help us reach this goal

22. JoeGrowth hacker
Let’s add user tracking
to see what users want

23. Lots of users keep using
old versions of our apps.
Matt can you help me fix this?
MattHacker
Sure! Let’s send them some
push notifications to tell them to update

24. Keep up the good work!

25. Releasing to storesà not so good

26. JamesIn charge of releasing to the store
This automated releasing
to testers works great, cant we
push it to the store as well?

27. MattHacker
We need more options.
We can’t just push
master branch to production

28. Visual Studio
Team Services

29. Profit!!

30. VSTS -> push to stores

31. Branching quality -> VSTS

32. Release pipeline -> ring releases

33. Requirements Develop
Build
ReleaseTestMonitor
Operate

34. Requirements Develop
Build
ReleaseTestMonitor
Operate
Push
notifications
Usage
analytics
Simple
Builds
Crash
Analytics
Tester
ReleasesDevice
UI Tests

35. Requirements Develop
Build
TestMonitor
Operate
Push
notifications
Usage
analytics
Tester
ReleasesDevice
UI Tests
Crash
Analytics
Release
Backlogs &
Boards
Bug Tracking
GIT source
control
Branch
policies
Pull requests
Fully
customizable
builds
Staged
releases
Store
releases
Unit Test
Integration Test

36. Not GA yet
Missing Key Features
• Deployments to store
• Handled exceptions
• No Secret management
• No app sharing iOS/Android
Key Take aways

37. About Geert
Thank You!!
https://mobilefirstcloudfirst.net
@geertvdc – geert@vdcruijsen.net