Deploying to On-Premises Servers with VSTS | DevOps Lab

Damian is joined by Abel Wang to walk through using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to deploy applications to on-premises servers. As Cloud Developer Advocates, we focus so much on deploying to Azure - especially Platform as a Service (Paas) - but not every app is on the cloud! Thankfully, VSTS has a solution

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update note - this episode had the wrong title/description posted originally and this was fixed on 2/22 at 2PM PST.

[SandipPatel]

Thank you for the video. It really breaks new comers disbelief that DevOps and CI/CD pipelines are only made for Azure like cloud environment deployment only!
Definitely I will try to deploy our legacy web apps to on premises IIS servers and see how it goes and we can reduce the pain of manual deployment of my entire team. Additionally, I hope this on prem deployment would work well for my client network having multiple servers like Dev, UAT, QA and PROD behind a firewall, and hopefully should work for my tens of apps deployments on number of servers!

[BigBlueRabbit]

Clear as mud! "Yeah you can tweak your scripts to make them work" - thanks. A breakdown of what the scripts actually do would be useful. What if something goes wrong in the future - what chance do we have of supporting something like this? It all just seems very fragile and over-dependent on opaque tools which might not be around in say 5 years.

[kapa]

13:20 So for IaaS this is a must have scenario (with agents/deployment groups) ?

[sriroopchintala]

Hello Team,


Could you please make a video on how can we deploy a WPF/WINFORMS exe and dlls to a physical machine using Azure Devops

[cebabu]

For every change that is made and published using visual studio project, it creates .publish.sql file in bin folder. Do need to checkin these files to version control. Could you please clarify

[jaisonreadoux]

Is there a cost for running each destination server as an agent as 16 servers behind the load balancer? I remember it costing about $5/month for each additional build server.

[cmanning]

How do you get it to deploy to an already existing website on pem

[cyriltumbo]

Hello am trying to get a precise tutorial for deploying to ubuntu server and run systemd tasks

[chinmaytrivedi]

Hi DevOps team,

Thanks for uploading On-Prim version with VSTS. I will definitely try this.

Can you please provide me link of "Remote desktop manger free" version used into this video. I was searching on Microsoft.com
and not able to find it apart from old version 2.7.

Thanks,
Chinmay

[arieheinrich]

This is not fully correct in the sense that there was a way to deploy in parallel without Deployment group, it just involves adding custom capability to the different servers in the Agent Pool and then adding 2 environments that each points to same agent pool but with different demand that matches the custom capability and then both environments can be set to run immediately after release so this in essence a parallel deployment.
What both ways dont take into account is:
1. When using parallel deployments to part of all the agents in the pool, youre basically saying that those servers that haven't yet got updated to new version need to work with the new database schema so this is something that has be pre-tested and verified to not cause the application to fail on the non-upgraded servers
2. Normal application deployments should go: Copy files to web, stop pool, start DB update, start pool - so your web application can not start before the database update was fully deployed so in essence you have to swap context, either with a new environment added with a single task to start app pool or a new environment with a deployment group that has a single step...its still too much context switching that would be nice to solve more elegantly.

[NickSoan]

Hi guys, great video! This is exactly what I've been trying to do for the last week now, but I'm having issues when running the power shell script to install a release agent on my on prem VM environments - The script gets stuck when trying to establish a connection to the VSTS server and I suspect its something to do with the proxy/firewall. Do you have any tips or advice on how to get the communication running?

[davidjackson]

this is a nonsense, vsts currently look nothing like this