I think a lot of us know the feeling: you have a great idea and want to try it immediately on a SAS Viya environment. So you need a deployment up and running in the next hour. But then there's no server or nobody has the knowledge to install the software. So before you know the momentum to execute your idea is over. And yes I'm thinking about running an Analytics Sprint, or discussing a potential proof of concept in the meeting and starting with it the day after, or you want to test a brand new feature that has just been released with the latest SAS Viya cadence, or simple testing the connection of your environment to an IoT device.
In that case it would be very good to have something ready that automatically installs and configures such a SAS Viya deployment. The environment needs to be up and running quickly and consistent with the previous time you used it. Without human errors or mistakes that typically happen during a manual deployment. That's exactly what we developed here, and since we created this it already saved us a lot of time for use cases as described here above. How did we do it: by making use of Azure DevOps pipeline and installing the latest release on Azure AKS clusters. Have a look to the following video to see it in action.
