Continuous Delivery Using Azure DevOps Services
- Get hands-on experience working as a team in an Azure DevOps environment.
- Learn to configure Azure DevOps for product development.
- Practice creating and managing Azure Pipeline builds, as well as installing and configuring Azure Pipeline agents.
- Understand the value of building a culture of learning and improvement
This course provides students with the DevOps principles and related hands-on practices to work better as a team, scale their agility, share and integrate their work, and deliver working software continuously in order to enable faster delivery of value and receive early and valuable feedback. Utilizing more than 50 hands-on activities, students work as a team, a pair, or individually using the tools that reinforce the DevOps principles and practices they are learning. Students will self-organize into cross-functional, collocated teams and work collaboratively on a case study using a shared Azure DevOps environment. All code will be provided.
Who Should Attend
This course is intended for experienced software development professionals who want to learn about DevOps in order to achieve Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Feedback, and Continuous Learning in a technical value stream as supported by Azure DevOps Services, Visual Studio, and Azure in order to continually deliver working software at scale. Students will also install and evaluate several extensions from the Azure DevOps Marketplace. Those who use Azure DevOps Server (Team Foundation Server) will also benefit from this course. Attendees should be familiar with C#, Visual Studio, Scrum, and have basic experience with Azure DevOps Services or Azure DevOps Server.
Delivering Continuously
Azure Pipelines deployment
Release definitions, environments, and releases
Deployment targets, IaaS, PaaS, containers
Using Microsoft Azure for DevOps
Configuring endpoints and deployment groups
Automated deployment to an Azure Virtual Machine
Installing and configuring Azure Pipelines agents
Release tasks and phases
Creating and deploying a release
Infrastructure as Code
Creating and importing YAML builds
Automatic creation of environments
Azure Resource Manager and ARM templates
Release and environment triggers
Continuous Delivery (CD)
Empowering the Product Owner
Build-Measure-Learn explained
Hypothesis-Driven Development (HDD)
Customizing Azure DevOps to implement HDD
Feature flags overview
Using LaunchDarkly to manage feature flags
Telemetry and application performance management
Application Insights for gathering telemetry
A/B testing
Using feature flags to support A/B testing
Exploratory testing, testing “tours” practice
Using the Microsoft Test and Feedback extension
Understanding and identifying technical debt
Using SonarQube to gauge your technical debt
Practices for paying off technical debt
Learning and Improving Continuously
Building a culture of learning and improvement
Agile metrics and reporting
Communities of Practice (COPs)
Lean thinking and practices to eliminate waste
Using the wiki to build tribal knowledge
Class Daily Schedule
Sign-In/Registration 7:30 - 8:30 a.m.
Morning Session 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Lunch 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Afternoon Session 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Times represent the typical daily schedule. Please confirm your schedule at registration.
Training Course Fee Includes
• Tuition
• Course notebook
• Letter of completion
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