Microsoft addresses DevOps with InRelease technology

July 13, 2013

Microsoft has completed its purchase of InCycle’s InRelease business unit, announced in June, and is now deploying the software to offer DevOps capabilities to its Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server users. The company has released an InRelease preview for Visual Studio of the company’s flagship software and has discussed how the software will be folded into Microsoft’s line of development software. “The real interest in DevOps is about figuring out how to streamline the delivery of the software from the developer’s desktop to the production environment,” said Brian Harry, Microsoft technical fellow in charge of Team Foundation Server (TFS), Microsoft’s application lifecycle management product. The emerging practice of DevOps seeks to shorten development time of software by having software developers work more closely with system administrators and other IT operations staff. The InRelease acquisition is providing Microsoft with a set of tools it can offer its customers to facilitate DevOps workflows. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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