Release Management with Kevin Mack and Brandon Rohrer
How do you manage your software releases? Carl and Richard talk to Kevin Mack and Brandon Rohrer about the various tools that come together to help automate software releases. The focus on this approach is a product formerly known as InRelease by InCycle, which was acquired by Microsoft back in 2013. Now it's known as Release Management Services for VSTS and deeply integrated with the Studio toolset. The conversation also dives into the challenges around databases when it comes to release management - how do you get your database to be part of your release? Lots to think about here to up your VSTS game!
Guests:
Kevin Mack
Kevin Mack, is has been working in the software industry for the past 12 years, focused primarily on the Microsoft Stack. Kevin’s worked on a large variety of projects. Everything from small applications, to Mobile and Enterprise solutions. His passion is all things ALM, and SDLC management, focusing on TFS / VSTS. He now works as an App Development Manager for Microsoft. He is a well documented nerd… and blogs at MackBytes and TotalALM.
Brandon Rohrer
During the last 9 years, Brandon Rohrer has been working in the software industry and has had the opportunity to be apart of a variety of projects. Brandon enjoys working with VSTS, ALM and spending time on things that seem impossible to create/fix/construct in the technology world. He co-created www.shareitsimple.com which is a website that does anonymous file sharing and enjoys co-blogging for TotalALM. Brandon's passions include anything technical, family, skiing and the outdoors. Currently, Brandon is an Applications Development Manager (ADM) for Microsoft.
Links:
- Code Push https://microsoft.github.io/code-push/
- InstallR https://www.installrapp.com/
- Octopus Deploy https://octopus.com/
- Release Management Services for VSTS http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2015/11/18/announcing-the-new-release-management-service-in-visual-studio-team-services.aspx
- Jenkins https://jenkins-ci.org/
- SQL Server Data Tools https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt204009.aspx
- IntelliTest https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/dn823749(v=vs.140).aspx