Automated Deployment with msbuild and msdeploy
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This document discusses automating software deployments using tools like msbuild and msdeploy to enable continuous deployment and delivery. It outlines the pain points of manual deployments and goals of automating deployments. It provides guidance on setting up continuous integration, automated testing, packaging, and configuration for both new systems and existing environments. It also lists best practices like deploying early, having rollback plans, logging builds, and automating as much as possible.
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Automated Deployment with msbuild and msdeploy
- 1. With msbuild and msdeploy Continuous Deployment Delivery -----------
- 2. Abstract If you are deploying your software manually, you are doing it wrong. If you deploying once a month, you are doing it wrong. If you as a developer are deploying from Visual Studio by clicking "Publish", you are doing it wrong. If a bug-fix takes you 1 hour but your customer needs to wait a week until he gets it, you are doing it wrong. Manual deployments are NOT fun. There is a nice way on how to automate the deployment with TFS 2010, msbuild and msdeploy.
- 5. Continous Deployment Deploy continously... After each change... To a certain env... Continous Delivery Be production ready... through dev cycle... release any time...
- 6. Peter Gfader Australia (my fun) Italy (my country) German (my language) blog.gfader.com (my findings) @peitor (my conversations) www.SSW.com.au (my company)
- 7. Deployment Agenda Pain Goals How To Start from scratch Existing System Best Practices
- 8. How do you deploy?
- 10. Client App
- 11. SharePoint
- 13. Publish from VS
- 14. Xcopy
- 15. Deploy.docx
- 17. Pain
- 18. "Only Bob knows how to deploy ... And he is on holidays..."
- 20. Manual deployments are error prone Deployment Instructions.docx
- 21. Manual deployments take hours instead of minutes or seconds Deployment Instructions.docx
- 22. Manual deployments take hours instead of minutes or seconds Long feedback cycle We want fail fast Deployment Instructions.docx
- 23. Deployments late in the development process cause stress on the "deployment day"
- 24. Hard! Configuration Existing data Updates Starting/Stop External dependencies
- 25. Manual != fun
- 27. Goals
- 28. Deliver business value faster
- 29. Deliver business value faster You spent an hour on a bug fix, but customers will not see it for months
- 31. Fail fast and early in the development process
- 32. Fail fast and early in the development process On the "Go Live Day" you realize: Production hardware is missing an important feature
- 34. Release small increments Deploying often, less number of defects
- 35. Start from scratch http://continuousdelivery.com/2010/02/continuous-delivery/
- 36. This is the hard part, but some rules of thumb How To
- 37. How To Start from Scratch Existing Environment
- 39. Start from scratch 1. Setup Continous Integration
- 40. Start from scratch 1. Setup Continous Integration CI tools TFS TeamCity CruiseControl.NET
- 41. Start from scratch 1. Setup Continous Integration CI tools Build automation msBuild nAnt nRake FinalBuilder
- 42. Start from scratch 2. Have automated tests
- 43. Start from scratch 2. Have automated tests Unit Integration Smoke Acceptance Stresstest BVT WTF?
- 44. 3. Setup packaging software
- 45. 3. Setup packaging software
- 46. 3. Setup packaging software
- 47. 3. Setup packaging software Result
- 48. Install of package ----------- - ---
- 49. 4. Configuration
- 50. 4. Configuration XML Transforms vs XML Parametrization
- 52. Part of VS2010 (no UI)
- 54. E.g.Remove all dev settingsDebug options ..
- 59. Set Parameters
- 60. Set Parameters
- 62. Run
- 63. Run
- 64. Existing Environment Deployment Instructions.docx
- 65. Existing Environment Document your manual deployment process Software artefacts Configuration artefacts Target environment(s)
- 67. Existing Environment 2. Improve in baby steps Identify your most expensive manual step Automate that Rinse and repeat
- 68. Existing Environment Everyone should work together
- 69. Deployment @AuctionsPlus On a napkin
- 74. Automated Deployment Wed night @Sydney .NET UG
- 77. Best practices
- 79. Deploy early Deployment is never easy, so try to deploy as soon as possible to remove all roadblocks
- 81. Have a rollback plan
- 83. Have a Dashboard Latest Builds? Environment, version? Everything healthy?
- 86. Have a guinea pig AB testing
- 87. Have a clone of your production environment
- 88. Have everything under source control
- 89. Have everything under source control Deployment artefacts .bat .ps
- 90. Log failed and successful builds
- 92. Only let the PO deploy to Production
- 94. Automate Automate Automate Automate Automate Automate Automate Automate Automate
- 97. Deployment Agenda Pain Goals How To Start from scratch Existing System Best Practices
- 98. References Do you automate your deployment process? (aka Continuous Deployment) http://blog.gfader.com/2010/12/do-you-automate-your-deployment-process.html
- 99. References Automating Deployment with Microsoft Web Deploy http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/09/13/automating-deployment-with-microsoft-web-deploy.aspx Team Build + Web Deployment + Web Deploy + VS 2010 = Goodness http://vishaljoshi.blogspot.com/2010/11/team-build-web-deployment-web-deploy-vs.html
- 100. References Web Deployment Made Awesome - Scott Hanselman Video http://www.hanselman.com/blog/WebDeploymentMadeAwesomeIfYoureUsingXCopyYoureDoingItWrong.aspx Troy Hunt - Blog Series http://www.troyhunt.com/2010/11/you-deploying-it-wrong-teamcity.html Web.Config Transformation http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdevtools/archive/2009/05/04/web-deployment-web-config-transformation.aspx Web.config Parameters http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff398068.aspx
- 101. References Releasing features @Flickr http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/12/02/flipping-out/ 18 questions - Choosing a CI tool http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/archive/2010/01/21/18-questions-to-ask-yourself-when-choosing-continuous-integration-and-build-automation-tools.aspx Jez Humble's work blog http://continuousdelivery.com/ Web Deploy 2.0 http://blogs.iis.net/msdeploy/archive/2011/04/05/announcing-web-deploy-2-0-refresh.aspx
- 102. Thank you! Slides and all detailshttp://blog.gfader.com
Editor's Notes
- Continuous Delivery with TFS, msbuild and msdeployFeel free to copy and use.Drop me a note before though: peter@gfader.com http://blog.gfader.com/
- If you are at the stage where you actually have to think about deployment, that is a Success!There are heaps of projects that didn't get so far .... and I was working on some...
- Continuous Delivery"Keeping systems production-ready throughout development, so that they can be released to users at any time" Continuous Deployment"Deploy continuously to a certain environment"
- From VS: PublishDocx
- From VS: PublishDocx
- Deployment is hard, because of configuration and starting/stopping of external dependencies (web-servers, DBs, queues, external services, …)(web-servers, DBs, queues, external services, …)
- Small feedback cycle
- Small feedback cycle
- Less number of defects
- Less number of defects
- Goal of tests: Is application production-ready?
- I have VS2010 + TFS as build server + a website hosted on DiscountASPhttp://twitter-fish.com/http://twitter-fish.com/Latest/
- Devs check in code to Version control, The automated CI system monitors changes in source control and gets changes. Build and runs all tests. Results are posted back on a portalCI tools are the triggers that listen to various “events’ in the network (a check-in to source control, for example could be a trigger. You can configure these tools to do a few simple things when an event happens. One of those things can be to invoke one of the tools in the previous list. Some of the CI tools, though, include a few simple built in build atomation power (such as built in MSBuild support, or running tests)
- Devs check in code to Version control, The automated CI system monitors changes in source control and gets changes. Build and runs all tests. Results are posted back on a portalCI tools are the triggers that listen to various “events’ in the network (a check-in to source control, for example could be a trigger. You can configure these tools to do a few simple things when an event happens. One of those things can be to invoke one of the tools in the previous list. Some of the CI tools, though, include a few simple built in build atomation power (such as built in MSBuild support, or running tests)
- Devs check in code to Version control, The automated CI system monitors changes in source control and gets changes. Build and runs all tests. Results are posted back on a portalCI tools are the triggers that listen to various “events’ in the network (a check-in to source control, for example could be a trigger. You can configure these tools to do a few simple things when an event happens. One of those things can be to invoke one of the tools in the previous list. Some of the CI tools, though, include a few simple built in build atomation power (such as built in MSBuild support, or running tests)
- In your Build definitionGo to “Process” -> “Advanced” -> “MSBuild arguments” and enter:a. /p:DeployOnBuild=Trueb. /p:DeployTarget=MsDeployPublish/p:Configuration=Release/p:CreatePackageOnPublish=True /p:DeployIisAppPath=[TwitterFish]/p:MsDeployServiceUrl=https://[DiscountAspSERVER]:8172/msdeploy.axd/p:AllowUntrustedCertificate=True
- Or use VS2010http://kb.discountasp.net/KB/a792/how-do-i-deploy-visual-studio-2010-web-application.aspx
- Tell MSDEPLOY this is a config setting
- Tell MSDEPLOY this is a config setting
- Identifysoftware artefactsconfiguration artefactstarget environment(s)
- (Dev's, Ops, DBAs)
- Deployment is never easy, so try to deploy as soon as possible to remove all roadblocksJuval Löwy encourages the build master to deploy after a couple of days after the project start.
- Even with automated tests and UAT there can always slip through a broken release...
- Which version of your software is installed in which environment
- Deploy to a staging environment, once 100% happy deploy to productionNew Zealand is Facebook guinea pig
- Have a clone of your production environment where you deploy and test your software
- Deployment artefacts. Trace changes, have history, evolution of code
- Deployment artefacts. Trace changes, have history, evolution of code
- Authorization
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