DevOps in a Windows World with Jon Arild Tørresdal
What's missing from the DevOps story in the Windows world? While at NDC in Oslo, Carl and Richard sat down with Jon Arild Tørresdal to talk about his struggles to have an effective DevOps practice in his organization using Windows technology. Jon talks about getting his teams to continuous deployment, rather than continuous delivery, so that there is a human interceding before software is deployed to the customer. Lots of conversation about instrumentation approaches, and getting to a place where code is deployed effectively for testing, but not visible to the customer. There's lots of challenges to a DevOps practice in the Windows world, but you can make it work!
Guests:
Jon Arild Tørresdal
Jon Arild Tørresdal is a speaker, advisor, and consultant working for Miles in Norway. In his last 6 years he has worked with Operations, DevOps and Lean for a number of companies to fully automate their deployment processes and Windows infrastructure. As a result of his ongoing learning and experience, he created the open source project ConDep in 2011 to specifically enable and simplify infrastructure automation and continuous delivery on the Windows platform.
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