Deploying your database changes to production can be nerve-wracking. We'll discuss methods that take the stress out of the process by ensuring that you practise your deployments using continuous integration before you ever get near production. Automating the deployment and testing processes through your testing and pre-production environments can make the whole experience of production deployments more repeatable, more reliable and more robust. In this session, we'll explore the concepts of continuous integration and continuous delivery for databases – what to consider, the challenges, the benefits, the testing, and the crucial approval gates necessary for a reliable production deployment. We'll discuss these and other release strategies as you think about how to evolve your deployment pipeline towards a more automated approach, starting with continuous integration and ending at your production systems.

1. Automate Your Database
Deployments
Grant Fritchey
Product Evangelist – Redgate Software

2. Get in touch
scarydba.com
grant@scarydba.com
@gfritchey
Grant Fritchey

3. Development
Continuous
integration
Build Test
Publish Sync
ALTER
TABLE
foo…
Deployment
script
Release management
Artifact
repository
Production
Trigger
Review,
Backup
& deploy
Source
control
QA / Test / Pre-production
Continuous delivery for databases
Continuous
Integration
Development ProductionTesting
Operations
Database development
and change management

4. Development
Continuous
integration
Build Test
Publish Sync
ALTER
TABLE
foo…
Deployment
script
Release management
Artifact
repository
Production
Trigger
Review,
Backup
& deploy
Source
control
QA / Test / Pre-production
Continuous delivery for databases
In this presentation
Continuous
Integration
Development ProductionTesting

5. patterns and practices
• the advantages
• the challenges

6. what it is and isn’t
Common misconception:
Continuous delivery = Continuous deployment
But in fact:
Continuous delivery means making sure your
database changes are always production-ready.

7. Development Test Production
Continuous Integration
Continuous deployment
Continuous delivery
Release pipeline
Approval
gate

8. deployment pipeline
SOURCE
CONTROL
CONTINUOUS
INTEGRATION
AUTOMATED
TESTING
AUTOMATED
DEPLOYMENT

9. • Use version control for all code (including tests)
• Commit early, commit often
• Use tools
o If it’s hard, people don’t do it
• Train people
• Build often
SOURCE
CONTROL

10. Requires
Delivers
CONTINUOUS
INTEGRATION:
FUNDAMENTALS

11. Complete deployment
Incremental deployment
CONTINUOUS
INTEGRATION:
FUNDAMENTALS

13. Development
Continuous
integration
Build Test
Publish Sync
ALTER
TABLE
foo…
Deployment
script
Release management
Artifact
repository
Production
Trigger
Review,
Backup
& deploy
Source
control
QA / Test / Pre-production
Continuous delivery for databases
Focus here
Continuous
Integration
Development ProductionTesting

15. Deployment
package

16. deployment package
1
2
3
Back to
Development
FAI
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17. Staging matches production
AUTOMATED
DEPLOYMENT

18. Development
Continuous
integration
Build Test
Publish Sync
ALTER
TABLE
foo…
Deployment
script
Release management
Artifact
repository
Production
Trigger
Review,
Backup
& deploy
Source
control
QA / Test / Pre-production
Continuous delivery for databases
Continuous
Integration
Development ProductionTesting
Operations
Database development
and change management

19. Wait…

20. AUTOMATED
DEPLOYMENT

21. Ready to go now?…

22. …you need a rollback
and recovery strategy
AUTOMATED
DEPLOYMENT

23. AUTOMATED
DEPLOYMENT

24. Development Test Production
Continuous Integration
Continuous deployment
Continuous delivery
Release pipeline
Approval
gate

25. Continuous Delivery by Jez Humble and David Farley (Addison Wesley)
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business
Win by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr and George Spafford (IT Revolution Press)
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and
Jeff Cox (Gower Publishing Ltd.)
Agile Organization by the agile admin (theagileadmin.com)
www.red-gate.com/delivery
Patterns and practices
Red Gate training academy
www.youtube.com/user/RedGateVideos

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