Creating a Continuous Delivery Pipeline from Scratch using the TFS Ecosystem

Posted by Graham Smith on November 28, 2014No Comments (click here to comment)

For anyone working with the Team Foundation Server ecosystem there are plenty of articles on how to get started with the individual components – TFS itself, Visual Studio, Release Management, Microsoft Test Manager and so on. Frustratingly though there is very little guidance on how to piece everything together to create continuous delivery pipelines that build code, automatically deploy it to an environment and then run automated acceptance tests.

Until now that is, because over the next few months I’m going to document my experience of building a continuous delivery pipeline – in my case using IaaS in Microsoft Azure. As each post is written I’ll update my Continuous Delivery with TFS page which will serve as a handy reference for anyone wanting to work through the process. If you are interested in knowing more about the philosophy about continuous delivery then have a look at this article and also this one. Both of these refer to the Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation book which is the current authoritative text on this subject and which I definitely recommend anyone working in this area should read.

Cheers – Graham