On the fifth day of Christmas, my true blog gave to me… Five Golden Rules!
…four Community Sites, three Maturity Models, two Sitecore PaaS features, and Sitecore in a NuGet feed.
Last year I provided a list of golden rules for DevOps and this year we tackle golden rules for continuous delivery!
SPECIAL NOTE: This article is a lead up for my November 30th #SCUniversity session on Continuous Integration and Deployment. Register for the webinar now!
Do you need to secure 14 signatures and present technical documentation just to run a script on your production database? Does it take a group of enterprise architects to approve a change to your application? Or do you have no restrictions whatsoever but are so afraid of touching the production server in case the slightest change brings everything down?
You are not alone… the word ‘Production’ has become synonymous with ‘Hallowed’ and a culture of fear dominates all changes made to a working production environment. An upcoming production deployment can feel like the Big Bad Wolf is coming to blow your house down.
Continue reading “Sitecore Production Deployments: The Big Bad Wolf”
It is very fashionable to apply a single word to pretty much ANYTHING to try to get in on the latest trend. The current ‘Whatever-Ops’ trend (MarketingOps, ChatOps, OpsOps) is one such example. For a while, though, we’ve been having the word ‘Continuous’ thrown in front of a whole lot of activities in the software development world: Continuous Delivery, Continuous Improvement, Continuous Management. There’s a reason for this… repeatable processes are a key ingredient to predictable delivery. And predictable delivery means money in the bank!
Continue reading “Continuous Everything: The Art of Repetition”
I am a big fan of continuous delivery and deployment. You might have seen me write about it a few times before. When I first bring the idea up with clients, there is hesitation. One might even call it fear. The benefits are huge, allowing you to reap the return on investment immediately, but the big question is “how”. How does an organization switch to a continuous delivery model?
Continue reading “4 ways to change so you can deliver more often”
