Design for operations with Visual Studio Team System

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Design for operations with Visual Studio Team
System

• Pierre Greborio
• Software Architect PEWay
• Microsoft MVP Solutions Architect

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Topics

• Problem Space
• System Definition Model
• Application Designer
• System Designer
• Logical Datacenter Designer
• Deployment Designer

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Team Architect Problem Space

• Distributed systems and SOA increase development
  and deployment complexity
• Communication problems exist between
• Architects and Developers
• Development and Infrastructure Architects

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Lessons from Car Manufacturing
Source David M. Anderson, Design for
Manufacturability Optimizing Cost, Quality, and
Time-to-Market, Second Edition (2001), CIM Press
805-924-0200
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Modeling as the Approach

• Modeling provides a common language
• Focus on key abstractions
• Enables design and communication
• Enables analysis and problem solving
• Challenges
• Keeping models synchronized with the real world
• Designing/choosing the modeling language and tools

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System Definition ModelLayers
Applications
Application Hosting
Logical Machines Network Topology
Hardware
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Application Modeling Definitions

• An Application is an individually deployable unit
  of function
• Which may provide or consume services via
  endpoints
• A System is a configured set of one or more
  applications
• Can be composed to create more complex systems
• Is the unit of deployment and management

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Application Designer

• Used to define or visualize applications in a VS
  Solution and how they are connected

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System Designer

• Used to define a specific configuration of
  applications and other systems

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Logical Datacenter Modeling

• Physical network diagrams are not aimed at
  developers!

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Logical Datacenter Modeling Definitions

• A Logical Server describes the application
  hosting characteristics of a type of server
• A Logical Datacenter is a configured set of
  logical servers
• A Zone is a logical datacenter boundary
  (physical, security, communication etc.) or
  security
• A Deployment Definition describes the deployment
  of a system to a logical datacenter

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Logical Datacenter Designer

• Used to define a logical model of a datacenter
• Provides a developers perspective

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Deployment Designer

• Defines how applications in a system will be
  deployed in a datacenter

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Demo

• Application Designer

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Demo

• Logical Datacenter Designer

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Demo

• Deployment Designer

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Demo

• System Designer

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Summary

• Problem Space
• System Definition Model
• Application Designer
• System Designer
• Logical Datacenter Designer
• Deployment Designer