Steve talked about DevOps Guys experience working with several Windows customers, and how they did all the DevOps basics on Windows such as automation and deployments, and some best practices for those of you out there looking to implement DevOps on Windows yourselves! Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXxwUx3dP80 Join DevOps Exchange London here: http://www.meetup.com/DevOps-Exchange-London Follow DOXLON on twitter http://www.twitter.com/doxlon

1. DevOps For Windows
“in the Wild”

3. About DevOpsGuys

4. About us
©DevOpsGuys 2015
Our Mission:
To simplify the management of online applications.
Our Passion:
To enable organisations to focus on their business goals
rather than on technology.
Our Belief:
DevOps practices will help companies exceed their
profitability, market share and productivity goals.

5. Your team
©DevOpsGuys 2015
!
!
Steve Thair
Co-Founder, DevOpsGuys
steve@devopsguys.com
@TheOpsMgr
@DevOpsGuys
Been doing Ops & Infrastructure!
for ~25 years!
*Even if I had to print it myself…!
Been There. Done That.!
Got the T-Shirt to Prove It*!

6. The Gorilla in the
Room…

7. #OSWars

8. I don’t give a Sh*t
what OS you use
#Sh*tCount = 1

9. #OSAgnostic

10. #Sh*tCount = 2

11. • Hearts & Minds!
• Embracing Change!Culture!
• Automate everything!
• Software, Infrastructure, Manual Tasks!Automation!
• Focus on producing value for the end-user!
• Small batch sizes!Lean!
• Measure everything!
• Show the improvement!Measurement!
• Share everything!
• Open Information, Collaboration!Sharing!
#OSAgnostic

12. So… back to
#DevOps
on
Windows

13. A Windows Pipeline
Plan! Code! Integrate! Test! Release! Deploy! Operate!
Powershell DSC!
Our process

14. Development
Continuous
integration
Build Test
Publish Sync
ALTER!
TABLE!
foo…!
Deployment
script
Release management
Artifact
repository
Production
Dev
Dev
Dev
Trigger
Review,
Backup
& deploy
DBA
Source
control
Dev
QA / Test / Pre-production
Database release pipeline
Continuous
Integration!
Development! Production!Testing!
Continuous delivery for databases

15. Lessons Learnt(1) The challenges are the same (just the tooling is different)
(2) Don’t re-invent the wheel (“Windows Open-Source Software”)

17. Lessons Learnt(1) The challenges are the same (just the tooling is different)
(2) Don’t re-invent the wheel (“Windows Open-Source Software”)
(3) Powershell (& DSC) is awesome and now a “must have” skill

18. “DSC represents a massive change in how
Windows administrators think about their entire
environment. Provided every configuration setting
can be boiled down to a DSC setting – which will be
true over time – then “administration” will
essentially become “intelligent editing of text
files.”“
Jones & Murawski “The DSC Book” https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=7F868AA697B937FE&id=7F868AA697B937FE%21110!
Which is pretty
much the Linux
approach to
Admin?!

20. Lessons Learnt(1) The challenges are the same (just the tooling is different)
(2) Don’t re-invent the wheel (“Windows Open-Source Software”)
(3) Powershell (& DSC) is awesome and now a “must have” skill
(4) Package Management is getting a LOT better (e.g NuGet, Chocolatey)

21. Chocolatey is Yum J

22. Lessons Learnt(1) The challenges are the same (just the tooling is different)
(2) Don’t re-invent the wheel (“Windows Open-Source Software”)
(3) Powershell (& DSC) is awesome and now a “must have” skill
(4) Package Management is getting a LOT better (e.g NuGet, Chocolatey)
(5) “As Above, So Below” (on-prem & Cloud via API & self-service)

23. Windows Azure Pack

24. Questions?

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