Episode 211: Continuous Delivery on Windows with Rachel Laycock and Max Lincoln

Johannes talks with Rachel Laycock and Max Lincoln from ThoughtWorks about continuous delivery on Windows. The outline includes: introduction to continuous delivery; continuous integration; DevOps and ChatOps; decisions to be taken when implementing continuous delivery on windows; build tools on windows; packaging and deploy on windows; infrastructure automation and infrastructure as code with chef, puppet or ansible; snowflake server versus phoenix server; Windows PowerShell; the relation between open source and Microsoft tools; why not to use Linux; current development in the windows DevOps space; licensing and proprietary software in continuous delivery.

Recording Venue: ThoughtWorks North American Away Day, The Westin Peachtree, Atlanta, Georgia

Related Links

• P2 Magazine: http://thoughtworks.github.io/p2
• Technical Radar: http://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/
• Travis CI: https://travis-ci.org
• Vagrant Rackspace Cloud Provider: https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant-rackspace

Build and Tests

• MSBuild: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0k6kkbsd.aspx
• psake: https://github.com/psake/psake

Continuous Integration Tools

• TeamCity: http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity
• Jenkins: http://jenkins-ci.org
• go continous delivery: http://www.thoughtworks.com/products/go-continuous-delivery
• Windows PowerShell: http://www.microsoft.com/powershell
• Pester: https://github.com/pester/Pester

Desired State API

• Team Foundation Server (TFS): http://www.visualstudio.com/products/tfs-overview-vs

Packaging and Deploy

• msdeploy: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/dd569106(v=ws.10).aspx

Windows Management Instance

• NuGet: http://www.nuget.org
• OneGet: https://github.com/OneGet/oneget
• chocolaty: https://chocolatey.org/
• windows remote management (WinRM): http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384426(v=vs.85).aspx

Infrastructure as Code

• Puppet: http://puppetlabs.com/puppet/what-is-puppet
• Chef: http://www.getchef.com/chef/
• Ansible: http://www.ansible.com
• Test Kitchen: http://kitchen.ci
• serverspec: http://serverspec.org
• Chaos Monkey: https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy/wiki/Chaos-Monkey
• Packer: http://www.packer.io
• Docker: http://www.docker.com
• SE Radio Vagrant Show: Episode 207: Mitchell Hashimoto on the Vagrant Project

Articles about continuous delivery on windows in the P2 Magazine

• Part I: Blame your tools
• Part II: Deployment
• Part III: Infrastructure Automation
• Continuous Delivery: Tales from Windowsland by Rachel Laycock, Talk from GOTO Aarhus 2013
• Cloud-Based DevOps: Possible on Windows? by Rachel Laycock
• “What Microsoft is up to”: Windows Management Framework V5 Preview”
• OneGet: https://github.com/OneGet/oneget

PowerShellGet

• PowerShell Desired State Configuration
• Windows Management Framework V5 Preview – Windows Server Blog
• Windows Management Framework 5.0 Preview May 2014 is now available – Windows PowerShell Blog

Rachel Laycock

• Twitter: @rachellaycock
• Speaking at GOTO Amsterdam, June 18th to 20th 2014: http://gotocon.com/amsterdam-2014
• Speaking at Agile 2014, July 28th to August 1st 2014: http://agile2014.agilealliance.org

Max Lincoln

• GitHub: https://github.com/maxlinc

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