Once piece that is often overlooked in the CI/CD practices is config management. Even in scenarios where the application is deployed to production through automation, there can be cases where there’s some manual involvement. This is often true for promoting...
Let’s say you want to move an IIS application to an Azure Web App (aka app service). More than that, let’s say this app has a nested application (subsite) or virtual directory. Here’s how you can get it done.
There’s a great book comparing Scrum and Kanban flavors of Agile software development. Scrum is more prescriptive than Kanban and it’s probably more widely adapted by software teams. Kanban is much more lenient. Both are ways to manage wip (work...
An excerpt from The Pheonix Project about WIP (Work in Progress):
When dealing with containers, our usual CI/CD processes start to change. Before containers, we used to push artifacts to our deployment locations. With containerization, instead of deploying a packaged artifact, we upload a container image to a central registry.