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Y'know what? Up until Jan last year I had never even touched a server to deploy an app, much less set up a CI/CD/DevOps environment.

Now, I'm comfortable with TeamCity, Octopus Deploy, Azure (a ton of hosted services), PowerShell, and a host of other tools.

I've set up bunch of HipChat integrations so we know exactly where in our pipleline a particular build is (code pushed, dev build/deploy, and promotions to various environments), if there was a problem with a unit test run, if there were problems with integration tests, and if there are problems in dev/staging/production with our actual live running code via HipChat integrations with our structured log processing server.

There are good tools out there and they're pretty usable - just maybe not at your price-point of free for your environment. I went from 0 to 1-click whole-environment deployments in just over a year.

I don't know if you read the same article I did.

The author specifically said that we'd come a long way on tools but not made much headway on the people issues related to Dev/Ops.

Your comment does not appear to be adding anything to the article besides another anecdote that the tools are good (and if that is what you meant it to be, then I misread the tone of your comment).

My intention was more, "I went from 0 knowledge at the beginning of last year, to setting up a full devops pipeline on my own at the beginning of this year. What's your excuse?" But I wanted to highlight the tools I'm using as well.

It's nice to hear of other people with a similar stack on HN (Azure, PowerShell, TeamCity, HipChat, and presumably C#/.NET)! It's working well for us too.

In addition, we're increasingly doing more with ChatOps with mmbot (as an Azure Web Job): https://github.com/mmbot/mmbot

One nice thing about mmbot is that if you use the DLL mode instead of the CSX mode, you get a great IDE debugging experience which makes it even faster to create meaningful ChatOps extensions. I've found it to be a more pleasant development experience that Hubot with CoffeeScript.

Hah, we also use mmBot, but while it was our original plan to have it be our "DevOps 1 stop shop" we ended up shying away from that idea in favor of a more hands off approach. We still use our mmBot for a lot of back-office querying type operations, but decided that, at least for the moment, TC/Octopus will be our way forward.

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