devops for sharepoint (what, why, how)

Nick Kellett

nkellett@stoneshare.com | www.linkedin.com/in/nicholaskellett | @NickKellett StoneShare Inc.July 12, 2014

DevOps for SharePoint

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What…

DevOps – What? New Software Method (2009+)

Development Deployment

Combines Developers with Operations staff

Uses automation and reporting tools and simple processes

DevOps – What? Goals: Faster, Better Software Releases! And: No More Tears

Why…

Changing World Different but interdependent IT worldviews

Enterprise world vs Agile world Developers vs Operations staff

Business demand is increasing Pace of software change is increasing Cloud offerings are turning infrastructure

into code

Release Hell Are your software releases:

Slow? Painful? Manual? Buggy? Unverifiable? Inconsistent?

Why DevOps? DevOps practices help address these

issues Reduce risk and stress Keep up with change

How…

How Devs Think• “Change is good!”• “Cutting edge technology is fun!”• “It works on my machine!”• “It will take one day!”• “Nobody will click that button

anyway!”• “I remember everything I did!”• “I can fix that on the production

server”

Happy Dev sez:

How Devs Think

• “We did it that way last time!”• “That technology is over a year

old!”• “We have to test it on every

server?”• “The PM wants my estimates to

include testing, deployment and documentation”

• “We have to test every button?”• “I have to record every deployment

step as I go”• “I can’t log on to the Production

server!”

Sad Dev sez:

How Ops Think• “Stability is good!”• “We did it that way last time and the

time before”• “It’s proven technology”• “It works the same on every machine”• “It will take ten days”• “If it’s not fully tested, I’m not

deploying it”• “I only do it if it is written down”• “Nobody gets on my Production

server but me”• “If I run into trouble I can always

recover”

Happy Sys Admin sez:

How Ops Think

• “We didn’t do it this way last time”• “That technology is brand new”• “They haven’t tested the

deployment package”• “The deployment steps are two

lines long and one of them is a link to a blog”

• “I have no way of knowing if deployment succeeded”

• “There is no rollback plan”• “Help! There are Devs on my Prod

server!”

Sad Sys Admin sez:

Make ‘Em Both Happy

How? Communication Simple Clear Processes Great Tools And…

How? Devs and Ops work side-by-side (ideally

under same management structure) Agile development cycles Frequent releases Simple repeatable processes Automate testing Automation and configuration

management Monitoring Infrastructure – cloud and virtualization

How? Processes DevOps Processes

Source Control branches and releases Automated testing and code coverage Continuous integration (frequent builds) Configuration management Deployment automation Build and deployment monitoring

DevOps Tools

How…

How? Tools DevOps Tools

Source Control Automated Testing Continuous Integration (Build) Configuration Management Deployment Automation Monitoring

How? Source Control Source Control Tools

Team Foundation Server Git Subversion

How? Automated Testing Automated Testing Tools

Visual Studio Unit Test Generator Microsoft Test Manager and Test Web

Access Telerik Test Studio TypeMock Isolator for SharePoint

How? CI (Build) Tools Continuous Integration (Build) Tools

TFSBuild NANT Jenkins Hudson CruiseControl JetBrains TeamCity PowerShell and roll-your-own

How? Config Management Configuration Management Tools

Microsoft System Centre and Orchestrator

Chef (with Azure integration) Puppet Ansible Salt PowerShell and roll-your-own

How? Deployment Automation Deployment Automation Tools

AutoSQLInstaller and AutoSPInstaller TFSBuild JetBrains TeamCity PowerShell and roll-your-own DocAve Deployment Manager

How? Monitoring Tools Monitoring Tools

Build Quality CI tool reports SharePoint Code Analysis Framework

(SCAF) JetBrains ReSharper

Deployment Quality SP Doc Toolkit Splunk ULS Log Viewer PowerShell

To Sum Up…

Why? Improved team communications Faster releases Better software quality Predictable processes Metrics and insight

How? Devs and Ops collaborate and

communicate Agile development cycles Frequent releases Simple repeatable processes Automate testing Automated deployment and configuration

management Monitoring Infrastructure – cloud and virtualization

SharePoint Gotchas Users can make configuration changes in

your environments before during or after deployment

To test OOTB features or not to test? Network, storage, IOPs and permissions

issues during deployments Timer Job timings (Managed Metadata and

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