Release Management with InRelease

My dear colleague Jasper Gilhuis explains how the new component within Visual Studio called InRelease fits into the Application Lifecycle. This post explains the concepts behind the tool and a great walkthrough scenario!

Jasper Gilhuis

In this post I will highlight the latest addition to the Visual Studio product suite, InRelease. This Release Management tool, which was recently acquired by Microsoft, is meant for bridging the gap between Development and Operations by providing a clear, repeatable, automated deployment procedure.

This post has been written with the knowledge that in a few weeks InRelease will be integrated in the VS2013 suite. VS2013 will globally launch on November 13th. I will update this post accordingly when it is released.

Introducing a new tool is difficult, I will first cover the surroundings, introduce related topics and terminology and will then go into more details on the Release Management tool itself by doing a walkthrough.

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